alt Hacker NewsZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
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I hope the Microsoft marketing dept is paying attention, because ZuckOff is amazing branding.
Instead of Copilot for Counter Spying, or Anti-Creeper.NET.
I... don't know how I feel about this. I mean, the concept, sure, good idea. Is it reliable? Perhaps. But... I get a "buy merch" popup the moment I open the page, and there seems to be a pro option for what seems to be a very much LLM-aided app? ...IDK, rubs off a bit wrong IMO. Just my personal opinion.
Reading this inspired me that it would be nice if there were a do-not-film-me standard: your mobile phone sends out a do-not-film-me request with a (rotating) hash of your facial biometrics via Bluetooth. All cameras (glasses, phones, etc.) then blur your face in recordings.
Similarly, a venue could request a do-not-film-this-venue setting and make sure no photos are taken at a party.
Not sure why you'd use this sketchy vibecoded proprietary app over the same thing that's open source and existed for a while
So google can already figure out if you're being followed by an air tag, why can't they natively scan Bluetooth for smart glasses and do what zuckoff does without a third party app?
Been around for ages for Android as "Nearby Glasses" app
> Own a pair? Add them to known devices
Oh, the hypocrisy
Good to know, now I need to find my flipper zero and build a small app to use the information gained.
cool solution to a problem that shouldnt even exist I'd say. how did it become ok to be recorded at all times without prior consent??
What is the difference betwen this and https://www.noglasshole.com/ ?
Unlike other commenters, I do not mind the ai-ness of this app. This is a quick solution to a problem that we should not have had in the first place.
Does it beep louder as the BT signal strength changes and the camera comes closer?
Cool idea, but why not spend 5 minutes to tell Claude to generate something besides the default AI UI style for your app?
Amazing. But it won't work for long, they'll patch the BT beacons with some "privacy" mode :(
A better solution would be a miniaturized quadrf style device that could see radio sources and overlay them.
I was going to say: can't wait for EU to regulate this, but they already did!
*knows when a pair of camera glasses are in the room
It says:
> Flags camera glasses by their manufacturer signature <
How is this guaranteed to be not spoofed?
You can only fight the future for so long.
Sorry to be that guy but:
>Quiet is not proof that nobody is recording, and a detection is not proof that anyone is
Is such claudespeak it’s not even annoying it’s just funny at this point
This is fantastic.
I think this will go like this: - Resistance. People don't like being "secretly" filmed. - Most people will realise it does not affect their lives. - People will ignore it - New generation will accept as something normal to do. Everyone recording everyone.
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we really need to regulate fast on those pervert glasses
v2.0 ... auto-project two middle fingers at the recording camera, in place of the recorded subjects face.
Need permanent paint spray at protests for just hoodlums. Blast them red commie paints.
Dunno why I remembered "The Quantum Thief" by Hannu Rajaniemi. Basically, you had fine-grained control over what others perceived of you. Your friends can see you completely, while strangers can only see a blur.
It was an amazing book.