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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)
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[–] 129 points 4 months ago (12 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The "Nothing else around" is the hard part of that.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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