The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)

120 points by neom 3 days ago

7 comments:

by staplung 3 days ago

Partial summary:

-ESP32 based device that tries to detect bluetooth/MAC addresses of flock cameras and beeps when it does

- a Stingray detector that runs on a second-hand mobile hotspot

- a device that alerts you about things that are moving approximately with you (AirTags, SSIDs, etc).

by pavel_lishin 3 days ago

> ESP32 based device that tries to detect bluetooth/MAC addresses of flock cameras and beeps when it does

Is it this thing?

https://simeononsecurity.com/articles/flock-you-detection-pr...

by em3ritus 18 hours ago

The last project is this, it actually does a lot more.

https://github.com/Em3ritus/simulacra

by gourneau 2 hours ago

Great video, thanks for posting. Since Meshtastic keeps coming up in the video — if anyone here is heading to Burning Man, there's a dedicated mesh network for the event. I will have a couple nodes running on it :)

https://www.burningmesh.org/

by burger_moon an hour ago

idk if this is off topic or not because its an ad playing on their channel but wow the non-skippable ad about 'clearing out stuck poop fast' from an ai doctor really added a lot of value to my life before the video rolled. this is what I get for not opening in a browser with ad block. is this what youtube looks like now without ads?

by leetrout 4 hours ago

Glad this one is getting the "second chance" bump back to the front page. It's great content and it's timely. It's a great video.

If you're not inclined to watch the video I'll save you a click to the youtube description and add a bit more detail than the earlier sibling for the devices shown:

Simulacra

"Simulacra continuously fabricates a churning crowd of plausible-but-fake wireless devices around you — drowning your real devices in noise so that passive trackers, ALPR add-ons, and co-travel correlators can't reliably pick your signal out of the crowd — while passively watching for the trackers that follow you."

https://github.com/Em3ritus/simulacra

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Biscuit Ultra

"Wardriving Platform: A Full WiFi & BLE Security Toolkit. A headless wireless security research platform controlled entirely from your phone via Bluetooth. The platform supports dual-band WiFi (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth Low Energy scanning and attacks, wardriving with GPS mapping, packet capture, and much more"

https://biscuitshop.us/products/biscuit-ultra

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Rayhunter

"Rayhunter is a project for detecting IMSI catchers, also known as cell-site simulators or stingrays. It was first designed to run on a cheap mobile hotspot called the Orbic RC400L, but thanks to community efforts, it can support some other devices as well."

https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter

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OUI Spy

"ESP32-S3 multi-mode surveillance-detection board"

• Foxhunter — single-target RSSI-proximity tracker for radio direction finding

• Detector — multi-target BLE scanner with OUI filtering + web config portal

• PCAP — raw 2.4GHz Wi-Fi packet capture, Wireshark-ready (dev branch)

• BLE Sniff — raw Bluetooth LE advertising capture, Wireshark-ready (dev branch)

• Flock-You — Flock cam detection with GPS wardriving, JSON/CSV/KML export

https://colonelpanic.tech/

https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

by senorcrab 3 days ago

Nice toys

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