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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

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

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[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I know next to nothing about the glasses, but would they be vulnerable to anything the Flipper Zero is capable of doing?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 52 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty hard. Unfortunately my aim is shit.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just throw hard enough to trigger fusion reaction then.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

XKCD-it. Got it.

[–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 7 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

What do you mean "vulnerable"? Are you trying to blow them up?

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, wonder if Bluetooth (D)DoS attacks are a thing.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago

Now we just need to combine them both so it only targets Meta devices.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

how does this work? I thought bluetooth is practically invulnerable to DDOS because of its endless frequency hopping

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Haven’t tested it against meta glasses. Essentially it requires the MAC address of the device and pings the shit out of it. May or may not work against the glasses.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ok, but how hilarious would it be if a series of vulnerabilities (software & hardware) would be discovered that wound allow just that (set fire to the battery), lol.