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While I do give kudos to this guy for stepping outside of his comfort zone and making a product, I have to say that for a device meant to help solve 'high level crimes' it's a complete fail. It's trivially easy to disable the WiFi radio on both Android and iOS devices. Additionally, with a little more work, it's possible to also cause the kernel to report a different MAC address than the one assigned to the radio during manufacture. Am I missing something here?



Yes. Criminals are dumb, and while you wouldn't catch them all, you could certainly use it to catch some.




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