Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
TL;DR From the article:
But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
Further on the article goes in dept in what ways the ICE is monitoring communities and possible ways to counteract it.
this reads like an AI overview that doesn’t tell you shit about the content
I agree, that’s why I added the last part. Still very brief, but it does the job.
Yes. That’s what “How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE” means…
This ads more nuance, “How hackers are fighting back against ICE” is a bit broad. Which is fine for a title but doesn’t tell us much.
You can see Benn Jordan’s videos (referenced in the article) here: …gravitywell.xyz/…/5xhkuDuVsWZ2jbsVw32Una
Oooh, he publishes on peertube? That’s really cool
Yeah I there is starting to be enough content on peertube to be interesting
This man is a gift to all in these times.
Spread his word.
Learn his craft.
Build those tools.
Sorry, it’s off topic, but how do I subscribe to this guy from the instance I’ve signed up with? I searched his channel but nothing showed up. So that does that mean I’m SooL because my instance isn’t federated with his?
I went here: peertube.gravitywell.xyz/c/benjordan/videos
Then I clicked the subscribe button.
Then I entered the url to my peertube account.
Then it opened the peertube app to my account and I had to hit subscribe again.
Not painless but not bad for being federated.
If you’re a firefox person, there’s an add-on called Peertube Companion which will convert peertube links to use your instance. So for me, that link takes me to peertube.wtf rather than peertube.gravitywell.xyz
Apparently it will also redirect you to your peertube instance when you watch a video on YouTube that also exists on peertube (I’ve never had this happen though! Not sure how it does the comparision - hashes I suppose?)
Might not apply to Lemmy, but I’m pretty sure PieFed users can follow from !benjordan@peertube.gravitywell.xyz
You might be surprised at how many Flock cameras there are in your community. Many large and small municipalities around the country have signed deals with Flock for license plate readers to track the movement of all cars in their city. Even though these deals are signed by local police departments, oftentimes ICE also gains access.
This is so dystopian, even before ICE comes into play.
Because of their ubiquity, people are interested in finding out where and how many Flock cameras are in their community. One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. (…)
There are several more examples of apps, sites, inventions and FOSS community efforts to deal with surveillance, just read the article. As bad as the circumstances leading to it are, it’s good that such projects get more public attention.
Yall are frickin heroes
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Deflock.me is absolutely depressing to see the amount of surveillance present.
Would be great to have a navigation app that could map routes that avoid or minimize the number of surveillance points.
Currently I just try to be diligent about marking any police or ice activity in waze but a FOSS option would be great.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
We already have the openmaps project. Perhaps someone could make a CoMaps plugin or add-on? Might be neat.
EliminateJuggle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
dnspmap.com tries to do that but its a little difficult to use
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s a cool project thank you. Will check this out further