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> She’d barely slept that night, waking every hour or two to check that the feed was transmitting from three pinhole infrared cameras she’d hidden in the Farmer
by metadat 4y ago
> She’d barely slept that night, waking every hour or two to check that the feed was transmitting from three pinhole infrared cameras she’d hidden in the Farmer John meatpacking plant 20 miles away.
Is there off-the-shelf hardware available to do this? Perhaps something that links to a cleverly placed nearby concealed mobile phone?
Edit: It's revealed deeper into the article. Not generally available to civilians, which is probably a good thing because creeps would abuse it.
> Deerbrook also used tiny cameras, specifically ones produced by Sony that are sometimes sold to law enforcement for hidden camera surveillance. But she was able to power them for days with small lithium-ion batteries and connected them via Wi-Fi to a hotspot generated by an Android phone that she hid on the top of the Marel gas chamber.
- Alupis 4y ago> "specifically ones produced by Sony that are sometimes sold to law enforcement for hidden camera surveillance" This statement from the article does not mean: > Not generally available to civilians There are very few pieces of technology a regular person can't get their hands on. A camera is not a controlled device or something. People who make IoT devices regularly use similar cameras and hand-soldered batteries, etc. The setup from the article wouldn't even raise an eyebrow over at HackADay or similar.
- nullfield 4y agoIf anything, the WiFi hotspot would’ve been been rapidly detected and, perhaps, suppressed by certain hardware that runs WiFi - it’s somewhat surprising this was successful.
- interestica 4y agoSoon a startup will start selling radio jammers to slaughterhouses?