A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light (www.404media.co)
from madeindex@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 13:15
https://lemmy.world/post/48075415

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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 13:34 next collapse

A .60 cent mod (tape) will do the same thing.

FishFace@piefed.social on 12 Jun 14:23 collapse

No it won’t. There’s a sensor that detects covering the LED.

This is the 3rd or 4th comment about this (across the Threadiverse) - why don’t people ask why this costs $60 - and then go and find out? It’s right fucking there in the article (before the paywall, even).

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 14:48 next collapse

I’m going to be honest, I don’t really give a shit about meta or their shitty glasses so I never bothered to look into it and I’m still not going to bother now either.

That being said I still appreciate the correction.

sk8boy204@lemmy.world on 12 Jun 15:14 collapse

This is why I enjoy Lemmy; homie sticks to their point but thanks stranger for the correction. Respectful, I appreciate that.

voxel@feddit.uk on 12 Jun 15:17 next collapse

*Fediverse

FishFace@piefed.social on 12 Jun 15:54 collapse

I said Threadiverse because as far as I know none of the threads I looked at came from anywhere except Lemmy and Piefed.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 18:10 next collapse

Just cover it with tape

IratePirate@feddit.org on 13 Jun 03:18 collapse

This is a Wendy’s Reddit Lemmy, Sir. We do not read articles past the headline.

FishFace@piefed.social on 13 Jun 09:38 collapse

[sad voice] I knooowww

anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz on 12 Jun 13:35 next collapse

paywalled. <img alt="" src="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/08015c4f-b38d-479f-9358-bf7d8b15b892.webp">

mcforest@feddit.org on 12 Jun 14:54 next collapse

Makes it a $70 mod

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 15:00 collapse

Not with an archived version: archive.ph/3O9mw

ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml on 13 Jun 04:25 collapse

I get address not found.

Edit: I can access the site through Tor. Yay for censorship circumvention!

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 15:50 collapse

So prying off the protective glass, drilling out the LED, and filling the void with resin, like this creep demonstrates. With electrical tape covering the LED, it seems creeps are required to block the camera sensor, for roughly one second after initiating video recording: as the photodiode value next to the LED is compared to brightness of the camera sensor; so by temporarily matching the two, Meta’s plausible deniability mechanism can be bypassed.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 18:09 collapse

I’d say the creep is the person who designed these in the first place

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml on 12 Jun 22:02 collapse

In particular, yes. But people seeking to secretly record others are also creeps in my book.