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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

This free tool is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers — as fears grow around 'intrusive' new devices that could track your phone, AirPod and smartwatch data

www.techradar.com

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This free tool is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers — as fears grow around 'intrusive' new devices that could track your phone, AirPod and smartwatch data

www.techradar.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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'The only hope is a Digital Civil Rights movement': Rebellious drivers are using this free tool to fight back against Flock and new license plate cameras that track your phone, AirPod and smartwatch data
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Automatic license plate readers are getting worryingly smart, so drivers and privacy advocates are fighting back with a free tool called DeFlock.
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    I don’t want a tool to avoid Flock cameras. I want a tool that uses my Bluetooth to turn Flock cameras into bricks.

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      Funny enough, bricks do that.

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        TIL bricks can assimilate other bricks like the Borg.

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      Need to figure out a small scale, cheap, EMP device that can be set off to fry the cameras and sensors, but nothing else that is around.

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        The “Nothing else around” is the hard part of that.

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          Agreed, though I would expect one to not be carrying anything that could be affected by such a device, whilst deploying said devices. So personal devices don’t count as needing protection AFAIC

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            If it’s using Bluetooth to knacker them, then all the nearby Bluetooth devices would be vulnerable.

            Medical equipment these days also can feature Bluetooth for mobile connectivity, and you can’t exactly go without your defibrillator, hearing aids, or insulin pump.

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        maybe some kinda really directional antenna? like a laser but for the radio range of EM

        need to have line of sight and accurate aim, however

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          Yagi antenna.

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            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagi–Uda_antenna

            so that’s what they’re called

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        I heard that certain laser pointers of a specific wavelength can cook most cameras.

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      Portable angle grinder.

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      I would think that a simple laser-pointer pointed at the camera would be enough to damage the sensor?

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        You’ll need around a 1-watt green (532nm) laser pointer. That’s gonna run you about $500 and they’re kinda dangerous.

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          $60 for a hobbyist who can hook up a module.

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            True, but like I said, kinda dangerous. I like my eyes.

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              Best to wear laser goggles for sure.

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        Lasers would be quite risky. Anything that powerful would also instantly obliterate peoples’ vision if there’s a reflection and it gets them in the eye.

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      Craftsman CMCG451

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