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Inaudible frequencies can disclose location in videos (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Pretty cool watch. Probably old news by now on any serious scale though.

He basically isolated some low frequencies (which means they penetrate materials well) of plane engines and calculated based on a few of them a precise location where the video was taken.

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[–] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean yeah. But you can also just filter out the frequencies in post.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    But the filtered out low frequencies will have modulated the higher frequencies of the the intended audio content. More difficult to process but the LF signal is there.

    Layering false signals on top just means there's fake locations to rule out.

    And if it's video: https://news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibrations-0804

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    They go through this in the video. The frequencies in question overlap with large portions of the vocal range, so not very practical. They also show that it’s pretty easy to recreate the data even when it’s attenuated.

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