Link: https://www.404media.co/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby/

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses

Admittedly, this is cyberpunk as fuck.

Should not be needed… but it’s a fucking cool solution.

Doesn't work 😮‍💨 push "start scanning" and nothing happens.

I know next to nothing about the glasses, but would they be vulnerable to anything the Flipper Zero is capable of doing?

Ditto

I think you need to give it a sec or hold. The button down. The same thing happened to me. But it was scanning within a min of downloading

I get an error saying "something went wrong" "please make sure google play store is enabled ...."

It worked for me after I looked at the settings screen. I'm not sure why. If it is working, though, the debug box will fill up with a ton of text.

If you prefer to avoid Google:
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

No such luck

None of those buttons at the top work either. Possibly because they're behind my notifications bar.

It's supposed to ask for Bluetooth access at that point, did it?

Also from the GitHub page:

if you don't see the scan starting, you might need to enable Foreground Service on your particular phone in the Settings menu [in the app's settings, not the phone's]

depends on what you know about flipper zero.

The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.

Yes I did. I don't know what a foreground service is or how to enable it...

Sorry - edited my comment as you were replying. It's in the app's settings menu.

Oh I couldn't access the settings menu previously...

Working now, thanks

What do you mean "vulnerable"? Are you trying to blow them up?

Early days, f-droid is around the bend.

Turn off "debug" in the app settings to stop that & have it only report suspect devices instead of everything it sees.

Hmm, wonder if Bluetooth (D)DoS attacks are a thing.

Open season on meta wearers when?

Lmao it's just BLE radar.

yep, theres a few apps like that nowadays. Bluetooth is VERY vulnerable. At least from my understanding.

Bluetooth is a result of corporate, Microsoft types, giving a list of requirements. It's honestly amazing it sits on top of the 2.4GHz 802.11 standards.

How hard can you throw it?

https://github.com/crypt0b0y/BLUETOOTH-DOS-ATTACK-SCRIPT

Requires Linux. But a raspberry pi should do the trick.

Now you need a powerful laser pointer to ruin the glasses camera. Careful not to blind the wearer.

how does this work? I thought bluetooth is practically invulnerable to DDOS because of its endless frequency hopping

Haven’t tested it against meta glasses. Essentially it requires the MAC address of the device and pings the shit out of it. May or may not work against the glasses.

Same here.

Go to Android Developer Settings > Display Cutout, set it to one of the other options and it should shift the app down a bit so you can access the buttons. (change it back after ofc)

I used "waterfall cutout" but others might work depending on your phone model. Afaik no other fix is possible without the app's code itself being modified.

It sucks that it seems like as time goes on the best thing my phone will be good for is alerting me to other nearby tech to avoid.

https://xkcd.com/1251/ (there is always an xkcd about it)

Apparently the lidar in some cars can damage cameras and are safe for eyes.

I vaguely recall a similar approach to detecting law enforcement by scanning for BT signals from common law enforcement BT devices. I don’t recall if they were body cameras or communications equipment or something else, though. Sound familiar to anyone?

Can I set mine to loudly blare, "pedophile detected!"?

For me it worked to rotate the screen, then the buttons worked.

I wonder if you could run it on a dedicated piece of gear like FlockYou...

Paywalled article. Here's the link to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses

Edit: it's licensed under a license I never heard of. I'm curious, I don't understand why it was needed.

"Why draft new licenses?
Until now, there has been no standardization of this kind of source code license, even though it has become increasingly common. This has resulted in confusing and overlapping licenses, which need to be analyzed one at a time. Lack of standardization has used up the time and resources of many in the software industry, as well as their lawyers. The objective of the PolyForm Project is standardization and reduction of costs for developers and users."

Seems like that exact XKCD about standards.

Thanks @yjeanrenaud@tech.lgbt !

Can we not call everyone we don't like pedophiles? It lowers the impact of the word when it's used against an actual pedo. It also makes it harder to reason with those people because they just think of you as name callers.

I think setting to "rat detected" would be better.

Shit, I have meta glasses for listening to music and occasionally recording my kid doing something silly.

Now people are going to look at me funny.

That was way more on point than I expected.

Ok, but how hilarious would it be if a series of vulnerabilities (software & hardware) would be discovered that wound allow just that (set fire to the battery), lol.

Install this on kali nethunter and make glassholes pay for their crimes.

Now we just need to combine them both so it only targets Meta devices.

Now if they can just notify you that some asshole is recording you on their cell phone instead of reading reddit. probably 0.001% of people out there stalking are using smart glasses.