Submitted 6 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
more at: @feed@404media.co
Admittedly, this is cyberpunk as fuck.
Should not be needed… but it’s a fucking cool solution.
Install this on kali nethunter and make glassholes pay for their crimes.
You know what sucks?
In that AR glasses, in theory, are such an interesting technology with lots of potential, and certainly a piece of tech I would love to have and work with and on. Not to secretly record people, but to, well… augment my field of view with whatever digital tools or displays I would like. It would be so useful
It’s honestly kinda saddening to me that it most likely will get completely ruined by our current toxic relationship to technology. A step towards our ever increasing cyberdystopia, and not towards enchanting our limited lives
Obviously either way I don’t trust Meta, but an open-hardware device running a FOSS AR system? It would be nice…
I still hold out hope that this somehow could be resolved, and I would love to contribute to open software for these devices. Maybe one day soon-ish I will. My expertise should be well applicable, after all
It would be incredibly useful in construction. Having a digital overlay telling you exactly where to put up the framing for a separating wall, or an overlay showing the correct distance between screws, or where wires and pipes are inside a wall? There are so incredibly many awesome possible uses for AR in construction.
I always wanted to build an AR app for inside data centers. Imagine looking at a server and being able to open a terminal or desktop that you can immediately interact with on the floor. or have it display resource information like hardware utilization, temps, network throughput and configuration, etc.
it would make a difficult job just bit more manageable.
Drop the cameras and microphones and replace them with a couple accelerometers and gyros. Paired with your phone’s GPS tracking, the glasses can tell where you’re looking without actually seeing anything. You can get handy features like a floating ‘turn here’ sign over your exit while driving with GPS navigation without recording anyone or anything at any time.
I don’t think that would work particularly well with AR: People get sick if movement isn’t synced up properly, not having any sort of cameras or sensors at all would exacerbate that problem.
If you are talking about a simple HUD, then that might be a lot more viable, but for AR and the tech we currently have, some sort of camera or sensor array is kind of a requirement.
Tbh I don’t even mind cameras that much if they were entirely controlled by the individuals themselves. I have a much bigger issue with it when you’re streaming my facial recognition data to Evil Megacorp 2™ servers that also feed directly to the “Not Spying… Again” agency, though.
Except that one cool thing with AR is being able to have it tell what you’re looking at is. Not just positioning things in space. A lot of cool shit that could be done with AR needs some kind of camera, even if it just sees IR light.
I agree, it would be nice.
Paywalled article. Here’s the link to the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jetzt
That license looks like Creative Commons Non-Comercial, which is not an open source license.
This is an unpopular opinion, but using licenses to actively prevent commercial exploitation of voluntary communal labor is not a bad thing. I would even argue that allowing commercial exploitation of free, communally-maintained software is downright unethical. I don’t tolerate this pejorative “it’s not open source unless the rich and powerful can exploit it” bullshit.
I know, and yet the code is open source. Confusing.
Yeah I noticed it in the favicon too. Bad aftertaste.
Open season on meta wearers when?
Green light!
I’d fork this just to name it more appropriately: “Glasshole radar”
Now if they can just notify you that some asshole is recording you on their cell phone instead of reading reddit. probably 0.001% of people out there stalking are using smart glasses.
Now if they can just notify you that some asshole is recording you on their cell phone instead of reading reddit.
If you’re out in public, always assume you’re on someone’s camera. That isn’t really new either.
Hmm… I wonder if there’s any solid way to detect a camera lens being in active focus or use. This app works by parsing Bluetooth traffic, but a person locally recording on their phone wouldn’t have such a trail. Is there any reliable way to detect a camera lens reading exposed light?
Presumably the sensor’s data lines would be detectable, but probably more like laboratory conditions.
Perhaps a physical shutter would be a good happy medium. Put 'em on the damn cell phones, too.
Doesn’t work 😮💨 push “start scanning” and nothing happens.
It’s supposed to ask for Bluetooth access at that point, did it?
Yes I did. I don’t know what a foreground service is or how to enable it…
It worked for me after I looked at the settings screen. I’m not sure why. If it is working, though, the debug box will fill up with a ton of text.
Turn off “debug” in the app settings to stop that & have it only report suspect devices instead of everything it sees.
None of those buttons at the top work either. Possibly because they’re behind my notifications bar.
Ditto
I know next to nothing about the glasses, but would they be vulnerable to anything the Flipper Zero is capable of doing?
How hard can you throw it?
Pretty hard. Unfortunately my aim is shit.
depends on what you know about flipper zero.
The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.
What do you mean “vulnerable”? Are you trying to blow them up?
That’d be a great TV show plot…but I’m not really a fan of violence. I’d be more interested in rendering them unusable, or spoofing them into making loud fart noises or letting out a loud wolf whistle everytime someone else walks by. Like I said, I don’t know, nor do I much care, what kinds of things the glasses do…but I imagine theres some kind of screen the user can watch, so maybe forcing them to view something annoying could be another viable spoof.
Hmm, wonder if Bluetooth (D)DoS attacks are a thing.
Ok, but how hilarious would it be if a series of vulnerabilities (software & hardware) would be discovered that wound allow just that, lol.
Now you need a powerful laser to ruin the glasses camera. Careful not to blind the wearer.
xkcd.com/1251/ (there is always an xkcd about it)
That was way more on point than I expected.
Apparently the lidar in some cars can damage cameras and are safe for eyes.
It sucks that it seems like as time goes on the best thing my phone will be good for is alerting me to other nearby tech to avoid.
If you prefer to avoid Google: github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
Can I set mine to loudly blare, “pedophile detected!”?
Can we not call everyone we don’t like pedophiles? It lowers the impact of the word when it’s used against an actual pedo.
Wouldn’t your phone screaming “pedophile detected!” make it seem like its referring to you ?
I think setting to “rat detected” would be better.
Lmao it’s just BLE radar.
yep, theres a few apps like that nowadays. Bluetooth is VERY vulnerable. At least from my understanding.
Bluetooth is a result of corporate, Microsoft types, giving a list of requirements. It’s honestly amazing it sits on top of the 2.4GHz 802.11 standards.
Would love to know when the iOS app is coming out.
Shit, I have meta glasses for listening to music and occasionally recording my kid doing something silly.
Now people are going to look at me funny.
Have both your hands while recording is different.
Are you really comfortable with Meta having videos of your children?
Nah, I block access. It’s all local.
Bruh
People were already looking at you funny.
Nothing personal, but those glasses are going to come off your face and straight onto the asphalt when I get the notification.
Don’t buy meta shit.
Thanks @yjeanrenaud@tech.lgbt !
I get an error saying “something went wrong” “please make sure google play store is enabled …”
Early days, f-droid is around the bend.
I vaguely recall a similar approach to detecting law enforcement by scanning for BT signals from common law enforcement BT devices. I don’t recall if they were body cameras or communications equipment or something else, though. Sound familiar to anyone?
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Wasnt there a ton of outrage and such incl people not being allowed on planes, back when google glass was released?
Why is it all OK now?
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 29 minutes ago
I remember Google Glass itself receiving a ton of outrage actually.
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Many years of indoctrination. When Google glass was introduced, it was just ‘a neat idea’. Now it’s a product, and therefore it’s clearly more trustworthy because someone is profiting from it. (/s)