The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

(youtube.com)

115 points | by neom 3 days ago

5 comments

  • 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).

  • gourneau 1 hour 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/

    • burger_moon 35 minutes 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?

      • leetrout 2 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

        • senorcrab 3 days ago

          Nice toys