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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[–] 23 points 6 months ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

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

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I mean, the Flipper Zero is just a computer with a few radios built-in.

    I think the only one they share with most smart glasses is Bluetooth which might potentially have some vulnerabilities which could be exploited, but there are also expansion cards for the Flipper Zero that add everything from wifi and ethernet ports to high-powered IR blasters, so the real question is how vulnerable smart glasses are.

    And the truth is, they're vulnerable by default because they rely on corpo servers to operate like any other "smart" device. Any flaw in the security of the glasses themselves barely holds a candle to the fact that they forward everything to Facebook or some other big tech brand name with a financial interest in monetizing your data.

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