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Drone tech is going to get tiny. It’ll have microphones and cameras and it’ll probably be untraceable. It’ll spy on you arbitrarily and the equivalent of 4chan

by thom 4y ago

Drone tech is going to get tiny. It’ll have microphones and cameras and it’ll probably be untraceable. It’ll spy on you arbitrarily and the equivalent of 4chan will have access to it in abundance. You will never again have any form of privacy unless you buy expensive countermeasures for your home and office. Fortunately deepfakes will be so good you can blame it all on that.

LeonTheremin 4y ago
Criminals trained in 4chan will just hack other people's drones and use them instead of buying drones themselves. But they don't need drones, actually, these criminals already have access to Microwave Weaponry and Electromagnetic Surveillance.
jacknews 4y ago
Yes, I watched some drone light-show/fireworks displays recently, and thought, 'wait till the drones are the size of flies, these shows will be happening in restaurants, bars, in your living room'. Imagine walking into a room full of fireflies that move around you as you walk, etc.
- jazzyjackson 4y ago
  Bottleneck has been and continues to be energy density. But eventually there will be a breakthrough in battery tech and we will reach new heights of utopia/dystopia.
  - jacknews 4y ago
    That is true, but also remember the air gets relatively thicker as you get smaller, so flight gets easier.
- machiaweliczny 4y ago
  Now imagine swarm of these with gps trackers and a laser gun following them. I bet US army already is working on it.
  - asdff 4y ago
    The drone swarm wars will be crazy. One of the current strategies is to crash your swarm into the enemy swarm and hope you take them all out with what you got
nokya 4y ago
I was recently caught up in a very good friend's divorce, who suspected either her apartment or her car had been placed under surveillance (her husband constantly had knowledge of her whereabouts). For some reason I cannot expand here, she assumed I could help her "check" her apartment. This brought me into looking for solutions on how to detect electronic surveillance. I discovered the term "bugsweep", and rapidly came to the conclusion that I could either: 1) Recommend her to hire government contractors at a price she would never be able to afford. 2) Buy cheap stuff on Amazon without any knowledge whatsoever on what works or not. It felt like there was no middle ground. I also happen to stay in hotels for both work and while on holidays, and although I don't particularly aim to hide myself from government surveillance, I don't like the idea that any moron or stalker could buy some recording equipment online and put me under surveillance. I would appreciate being able to check my surroundings for obvious / cheap recording equipment when I feel the need. If anyone has some good pointers/recommendations on this topic, I think it could interest more than just me.
- r2_pilot 4y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector Doesn't work for shielded electronics, and there may be false positives, but this is one way to detect circuitry.
  - nokya 4y ago
    Thanks for the share. I clicked the source cited in the page, it seems to be quite an overkill/invasive method (and dangerous for the person doing the detection), no? It seems to not be accessible to civilians...
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  Could she keep staying at different friends places? Move every 2-4 weeks. Get a new phone every month. Hassle/cost wise that might be in-between the two extremes.
gbear0 4y ago
I've always wanted to see a swarm of miniature roomba drones that can automatically clean/collect dust from anywhere in the house.
eps 4y ago
Book on the subject - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age
nitwit005 4y ago
I'd rather expect drone tech to be increasingly regulated or banned. We're going to start seeing it used as a weapon more and more. You can see simple forms of it happening the Ukraine conflict now.

by thom 4y ago

LeonTheremin 4y ago

Criminals trained in 4chan will just hack other people's drones and use them instead of buying drones themselves. But they don't need drones, actually, these criminals already have access to Microwave Weaponry and Electromagnetic Surveillance.

jacknews 4y ago

Yes, I watched some drone light-show/fireworks displays recently, and thought, 'wait till the drones are the size of flies, these shows will be happening in restaurants, bars, in your living room'. Imagine walking into a room full of fireflies that move around you as you walk, etc.

jazzyjackson 4y ago
Bottleneck has been and continues to be energy density. But eventually there will be a breakthrough in battery tech and we will reach new heights of utopia/dystopia.
- jacknews 4y ago
  That is true, but also remember the air gets relatively thicker as you get smaller, so flight gets easier.
machiaweliczny 4y ago
Now imagine swarm of these with gps trackers and a laser gun following them. I bet US army already is working on it.
- asdff 4y ago
  The drone swarm wars will be crazy. One of the current strategies is to crash your swarm into the enemy swarm and hope you take them all out with what you got

nokya 4y ago

I was recently caught up in a very good friend's divorce, who suspected either her apartment or her car had been placed under surveillance (her husband constantly had knowledge of her whereabouts). For some reason I cannot expand here, she assumed I could help her "check" her apartment. This brought me into looking for solutions on how to detect electronic surveillance. I discovered the term "bugsweep", and rapidly came to the conclusion that I could either: 1) Recommend her to hire government contractors at a price she would never be able to afford. 2) Buy cheap stuff on Amazon without any knowledge whatsoever on what works or not. It felt like there was no middle ground. I also happen to stay in hotels for both work and while on holidays, and although I don't particularly aim to hide myself from government surveillance, I don't like the idea that any moron or stalker could buy some recording equipment online and put me under surveillance. I would appreciate being able to check my surroundings for obvious / cheap recording equipment when I feel the need. If anyone has some good pointers/recommendations on this topic, I think it could interest more than just me.

r2_pilot 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_junction_detector Doesn't work for shielded electronics, and there may be false positives, but this is one way to detect circuitry.
- nokya 4y ago
  Thanks for the share. I clicked the source cited in the page, it seems to be quite an overkill/invasive method (and dangerous for the person doing the detection), no? It seems to not be accessible to civilians...
quickthrower2 4y ago
Could she keep staying at different friends places? Move every 2-4 weeks. Get a new phone every month. Hassle/cost wise that might be in-between the two extremes.

gbear0 4y ago

I've always wanted to see a swarm of miniature roomba drones that can automatically clean/collect dust from anywhere in the house.

eps 4y ago

Book on the subject - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age

nitwit005 4y ago

I'd rather expect drone tech to be increasingly regulated or banned. We're going to start seeing it used as a weapon more and more. You can see simple forms of it happening the Ukraine conflict now.