Bop Spotter: “a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below”
Jeez, we have surveillance hobbyists now.
If you want to see someone who really deserves that title, check out Brendan O’Connor’s talk about the CreepyDOL project at DEFCON 21. Nice reminder of how much information most of us are leaking in the RF spectrum for anybody interested in listening and piecing things together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvxD7p4Suw
For anyone that’s interested.
Been a thing for all long time. See police scanners. Unfortunately going the way of the past as cops hide their coms with encryption to be even less accountable.
I love this. I feel like the internet used to be full of these crazy little art projects.
Now that it’s a thing, UMG is going to find that corner and start shaking people down for performance royalties.
Scrolling through the list. The timestamps are too regular, meaning it is interpreting a lot of ambient noise as music.
Good share
