Privacy

4744 readers

86 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

danielintempesta@programming.dev

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002 to c/privacy@programming.dev

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As an avid watcher of styropyro, any labeling on that device is pretty much useless. Considering it burns shit, it's at least 1W, if not higher. Amazon and eBay lasers are notorious for being orders of magnitude more powerful than they are advertised, which is why I picked this one lol. If it costs more than $30, it's probably capable of blinding anyone not careful with it.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hooray, it is of indeterminate wattage.

In the context of economies of scale, I think it's possible that a lot of these laser pointers are made with surplus Blu-ray diodes, which have obviously been produced in mass quantities. It would explain why they can be had so cheaply.