Hegnes is studying at Noroff’s program for Network and IT security. SURPRISED: Bjørn Martin Hegnes did not believe it could be possible to track that many wireless devices. His goal was to investigate how many of us can be tracked in secret without even noticing. On several occasions, student and IT enthusiast Bjørn Martin Hegnes has been carrying equipment for listening in on Bluetooth and WiFi messages for an academic project. In the intersection between Badebakken and Bergensgaten, seven messages are broadcast, making it possible to determine that this is the same device seen near the stadium. This technology is enabling phones, headsets, and speakers to talk to each other wirelessly.Ħ2 days later, the same Bose headphones are at another place in Oslo. Today, at this precise spot in Oslo, someone is listening in and registering all the messages being sent from nearby Bluetooth devices. It is a little before four o’clock on a Wednesday in February, and the weather is below freezing.Ĭompletely without the owner’s knowledge, their headphones are beaming out its unique name and identity on a frequency humans can’t hear. Right next to Bislett Stadium, one of Norway’s most well-known sporting arenas, someone is wearing a pair of the popular headphones from Bose called QuietComfort 35. It never crossed my mind”, an individual the NRK has identified through their headphones says. “It is unpleasant knowing that others, that you don’t know, are able to track you via Bluetooth.
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