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  • idk if this is off topic or not because its an ad playing on their channel but wow the non-skippable ad about 'clearing out stuck poop fast' from an ai doctor really added a lot of value to my life before the video rolled. this is what I get for not opening in a browser with ad block. is this what youtube looks like now without ads?
    by burger_moon
  • Glad this one is getting the "second chance" bump back to the front page. It's great content and it's timely. It's a great video.

    If you're not inclined to watch the video I'll save you a click to the youtube description and add a bit more detail than the earlier sibling for the devices shown:

    Simulacra

    "Simulacra continuously fabricates a churning crowd of plausible-but-fake wireless devices around you — drowning your real devices in noise so that passive trackers, ALPR add-ons, and co-travel correlators can't reliably pick your signal out of the crowd — while passively watching for the trackers that follow you."

    https://github.com/Em3ritus/simulacra

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    Biscuit Ultra

    "Wardriving Platform: A Full WiFi & BLE Security Toolkit. A headless wireless security research platform controlled entirely from your phone via Bluetooth. The platform supports dual-band WiFi (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth Low Energy scanning and attacks, wardriving with GPS mapping, packet capture, and much more"

    https://biscuitshop.us/products/biscuit-ultra

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    Rayhunter

    "Rayhunter is a project for detecting IMSI catchers, also known as cell-site simulators or stingrays. It was first designed to run on a cheap mobile hotspot called the Orbic RC400L, but thanks to community efforts, it can support some other devices as well."

    https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter

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    OUI Spy

    "ESP32-S3 multi-mode surveillance-detection board"

    • Foxhunter — single-target RSSI-proximity tracker for radio direction finding

    • Detector — multi-target BLE scanner with OUI filtering + web config portal

    • PCAP — raw 2.4GHz Wi-Fi packet capture, Wireshark-ready (dev branch)

    • BLE Sniff — raw Bluetooth LE advertising capture, Wireshark-ready (dev branch)

    • Flock-You — Flock cam detection with GPS wardriving, JSON/CSV/KML export

    https://colonelpanic.tech/

    https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

    by leetrout
  • Defcon has been nothing but feds and 3 letter agencies for years if not decades. Assume all of these are bypassed
    by xyzsparetimexyz
  • The "Crypto and Privacy" village at Defcon demands you agree to the privacy policies of Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and Discord to interact with them. It is a disgrace.

    Defcon stopped caring about privacy, hacker ethos, and digital sovereignty a long time ago.

    Go there if you want to talk to their military recruiters or buy/sell proprietary snake oil security SaaS. It is really just another corpocon at this point. Hackers should probably skip it unless using it as a chance to hang out with friends in vegas on their corporate credit card.

    The hackers are mostly at HOPE and CCC these days.

    by lrvick
  • I'm not sure I understand Simulacra. I get the idea, just spam devices around the area in hopes you're lost in the crowd. But anything designed to track you is purpose built to handle tons of devices moving about. Maybe if everyone had one in their pocket we could overload the surveillance devices, but at best you're just bloating their logs.
    by fooqux
  • Great video, thanks for posting. Since Meshtastic keeps coming up in the video — if anyone here is heading to Burning Man, there's a dedicated mesh network for the event. I will have a couple nodes running on it :)

    https://www.burningmesh.org/

    by gourneau
  • Is anyone familiar with the laws surrounding police basically operating their own pseudo cell towers?

    I would assume this would be highly illegal for individuals, what sort of hoops did law enforcement need to jump through to get this type of approval? Did FCC need to rubber stamp this?

    by kamranjon
  • Partial summary:

    -ESP32 based device that tries to detect bluetooth/MAC addresses of flock cameras and beeps when it does

    - a Stingray detector that runs on a second-hand mobile hotspot

    - a device that alerts you about things that are moving approximately with you (AirTags, SSIDs, etc).

    by staplung

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