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Harvard students hack Meta glasses to compile dossiers on strangers in real time [video]

by tessierashpool on 10/6/24, 5:20 PM with 18 comments

• by gnabgib on 10/6/24, 5:41 PM

  Related

  Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds (30 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724957

  Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox Strangers in Real Time (13 points, 3 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310

• by tessierashpool on 10/6/24, 5:20 PM

  France 24 report describes it as "a surveillance nightmare" but it's arguably more a sousveillance nightmare. This would be an incredibly oppressive tool of surveillance, but in the hands of literally everyone, it's that plus a recipe for chaos.

  Impressive tech demo though!

• by al_borland on 10/6/24, 5:50 PM

  This was fantasy tech from movies not long ago.

  I think this is a bad direction we’re heading. Much like text scams mean we can no longer trust an honest wrong number, we can now no longer trust a meeting on the street from someone who may know of us from some other part of our life. I worry this will lead to even greater distrust of our own communities, driving more people to end up alone.

  There were con artists before, sure, but when technology enables anyone with a few hundred dollars to do it without much effort, it changes things.

  One saving grace is that, so far, the public doesn’t seem to care about any of these VR/AR products. The Ray-Ban glasses from Meta are in the same ballpark as the iPod in terms of price. The iPod was ubiquitous, while I don’t see or know anyone with smart glasses. If it’s not a price issue, it must be that people don’t really care about this space.

• by ChainOfFools on 10/6/24, 6:31 PM

  So it's 2029 and the entire world has become intensely suspicious of anyone wearing glasses. well done 'information wants to be free' gang.

  coda: it's 2032, and the entire world is wearing glasses.

• by pakolinux on 10/7/24, 6:21 AM

  I’m actually more interested in the hacking part of the glasses. He/they hooked into the bluetooth API used by whatsapp to stream videos in video calls?

• by hellisothers on 10/7/24, 6:32 PM

  If you haven’t read Daniel Suarez’s book Daemon, this features prominently and somehow seems neat there but creepy here :)

• by tomasmartunas on 10/7/24, 6:19 PM

  While The US was asleep, we WhiteBridge.ai developed a 92% accuracy tech solution in Tesonet.ai Hackathon to find a Person's name from simple photo taken by Camera, Meta's Glasses, Picture upload. And .... not just a name but also finding everything about this person online using publicly available information...Now it is becoming a solution to manage your Digital reputation or Prepare for a business meeting

• by mr-pink on 10/6/24, 6:05 PM

  nothing wrong with this. if you live in a small town you know everyone anyway. this is the same thing on a larger scale. if i see my waiter's great great grandfather owned slaves at a glance thanks to this technology i might leave a smaller tip than usual.

• by jajko on 10/6/24, 5:37 PM

  Google glass all over again. If you walk by me with these on, chances are I will smash you in the face for being obtrusive and rude or worse without asking for permission. If you bring those around my small kids worse things may happen.

  But first person porn videos may look more natural compared to GG.