Digital Force Protection - Vehicle Privacy and Security
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Authors
Campbell, Ian
Daher, Zachary
Manoj, Heainz
Issue Date
2024-12-11
Type
Work In Progress Paper
Language
en_US
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Abstract
This research explores what information modern vehicles transmit over the internet that can impact the privacy of service members who drive. To find the information, we connected to the car's on-board Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and then captured data packets using Wireshark's network analyzer. We also used Spectrum Guard Pro, which determines the radio frequencies transmitted in the air. We scanned several cars used at the United States Military Academy but found no indication that the vehicles were transmitting or revealing sensitive data over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth upon analyzing Spectrum Guard Pro and Wireshark results. However, we found that when a vehicle's Wi-Fi is turned on, it sends a Wi-Fi broadcast containing the vehicle's Mac address. Since a Mac address is a unique identifier, it can be used to recognize a vehicle within close proximity. Since the vehicles transmitted nothing of significance over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to the internet, they may be sending significant data over LTE/Cellular instead, which is the next approach in our research.