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acedrew / blueobserver-collector

Collector that runs on a raspberry pi to sniff bluetooth MAC Addresses
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Question regarding this project and intended use #1

Open hilljw opened 7 years ago

hilljw commented 7 years ago

I live in the city and we have problems with street crime (car break ins mostly). I would like to use this code on a raspberry pi to collect data from phones passing by on our street at night. The idea would be to collect potential evidence and try to determine when the crime is happening. My thesis is that most people now have smartphones and thieves/criminals may not turn off their bluetooth before going out to commit crimes.

I had a question regarding your note on privacy: "This project seeks to protect to some degree the privacy of the devices being sniffed by only transmitting argon2 hashed versions of the MAC, and on the server side only storing observation data relative to arbitrarily assigned UUIDs that expire after a set period of time."

Would this prevent me from collecting MAC address data from people walking by at night? Thanks!

acedrew commented 7 years ago

You are welcome to use the code and modify it to do what you're wanting. As it stands now, you would not get an individually identifiable MAC address in the central data store. The goal of this project was to provide a platform for tracking anonymized flows of people, whether vehicular traffic or pedestrian/bike traffic.