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The points about Kingston are good to consider. However, you're making assumptions about Bluetooth and hardware limitations that are not necessarily true. We don't know the minimum chip size, and DOD always gets first crack at new technologies. It surprises people, but batteries are NOT needed; incoming RF can be used for power -- or maybe they have figured out how to harness biological electrochemistry. Back in the 60's, the Russians bugged a plaque gifted to U.S. diplomats, that used nothing but a resonant cavity and a tiny antenna. A microwave carrier was beamed in externally and modulated by the device. While bluetooth activity seems hard to believe, I would be reluctant to completely write it off.

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For bluetooth power is needed. Lots of development is into nano-batteries but they cant do yet.

Even if you use logic only, you would surmise that if they developed a top secret nano tracking device, they would also use a top secret tracking signal. They wouldn't use a bluetooth signal that everyone could detect. Does that make sense? The mac addresses are all from personal devices like phones. Absolutely no intelligent person would use bluetooth for a secret device.

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That's a perfectly reasonable argument -- but never underestimate hubris (success makes you stupid/overconfident), and being rational has never been a DOD strong point. Bluetooth may be convenient for them, and who says they need to keep it secret, anyway? Denial has worked just fine for 9-11 as well as for massive vaxxx injuries and deaths.

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