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HadleyRipleyArgusRockefellerDog writes "Want to see what other people find interesting enough to watch with an X10 Camera? Radical Software Group has a page describing how to build a "video sniffer". They say they picked up their first image after walking half a block in NY city. X10's work on the same frequency as 802.11b. .. anyone want a combo WiFi/Video sniffer for Christmas?"
"Want to see what other people find interesting enough to watch with an X10 Camera?"
I already know. A pool, from left to right, and then this hot twenty-something in a blue dress, up and down.
Really, what else is there?
trustedworlds.net - gaming, security, and the gunk that lives in between
Here.
I guess if I put my bedroom on air, I can't expect people to look away.
KdenLive/PIAVE - non-linear video editing
knowing what most people seem to get webcams for from connecting to random mofos on things like iphone and netmeeting, i don't think i'll be doing this anytime soon.
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Images are a tad slow for my liking, so here is a mirror.
No, I'd rather leave all that X10 spycam action to my imagination, thank you very much.
Looking at baby cribs, kids rooms, and garden sheds just isn't my thing, thanks.
I don't see how this is any cheaper than sticking a vhs up to your nose and inhaling.
Video sniffing...next thing we're gonna have an article on dry erase marker sniffing.
The anti-salmon
Does X10 have encryption? Espiecally if these things are being used for security cameras. Or private sex parties either way, i wouldn't want people looking in.
Anyone know where I can get these 4" tvs? Since this article is at least a year old i'm expecting sub $100. Course a 4" touchscreen i'd pay $100.
Why in the hell would a security camera be wireless? And this thing doesn't even seem to be encrypted!
I demand the Cone of Silence!
Don't know if their site has it or not - I'm at work and it's blocked for me. Anyone have more info on it compared to this story?
Oh, not because of any ethical issues about spying. (War-tomming?) But mainly because I refuse to buy anything from X10 after all those pop-up ads.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
But is is hardly BUILDING anything. It's instructions on assembling (poorly, I might add) an X10 video receiver, a small LCD panel, and a battery. This isn't even the actual source of the story on hot wo build it (it came from 2600....which is even credited on the site).
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People actually buy that x10 crap?
I can just see it now...
(popup)
Buy are new X10 Camera. Broadcast your personal life to your neighborhood! Publicise your life! Offer expires 11:59:59tonight.
Just a radar type device for detecting all cameras in the area? Right now, we can only assume we're being watched at all times, rather than knowing that we're watched at all times directly.
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YOU FAIL IT!
You could at least credit KOMPRESSOR for that.
passer-bys are aware that 2 people are currently occupying the hallway, now all of our corporate secrets shall be revealed.
Do enough people ACTUALLY respond to the popup ads and buy these dammed things to make this viable?
What a wonderful society we live in.
Someone should set up an X10 looking at the image from goatse and broadcast it for any voyers out there.
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All the X10 stuff is pretty flimsy and overpriced
even at the discount special deals they always have.
Free Porn!
Table-ized A.I.
Icom has a smaller solution and with many other features such as being compact and lightweight. Both features that will keep you traveling further and enjoying the spoils of unsuspecting X10 users for many hours to come.
--Of course this is definitely an unscheduled visit!
A 2.4Ghz video sniffer built with *GASP* a 2.4Ghz video receiver!
This is hardly "building" anything. It's slapping together off-the-shelf items and holding them in place with electrical tape. It's like something I would have built when I was ten.
could this be of any serious usefulness. Because, really, what is the density per-square-mile of wireless cameras (not to mention the density-per-square-state of *interesting* cameras)?
It would even be cooler if you could send your own videos to the cam's receiver. Imagine sending your pre-released DivX movie to the security officers ;-)
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you click the popups! you promote them! you are the enemy!
hypocrites! all of you!
Here in my town, someone captured the neighbor beating their kid. The video tape made short work of the legal procedings.
Yeah, about a year ago.
Slashdot people get all uppity about browser cookies from advertising companies and complain about their loss of privacy.
:)
Then they turn around and say "cool, I need to get me some of that" to a device that lets you invade other people's privacy without their knowledge or consent.
Of course, Slashdot people are also "we hate the MPAA, when does the new Matrix movie open?" too, so I guess I shouldn't be too shocked
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
The interest expressed here in building one of these just goes to show you that that its not just the RIAA, MPAA, goverment, spyware, interested in using all this cool new technology to spy on people. Joe Sixpack wants in on the action.
great.
You could deliberately click the pop-ups to proliferate these x10 things. You then would have more insecure cameras to snoop on. Clicking pop-ups could have a socialogical impact...
One more shining example that some people need to get a life and a therapist.
X10 camera sniffs j00!
Never thought I'd see someone mention Kompressor on /.
Here is a wireless receiver for only $88.
Isn't there a way to get those camera's signal through standard wi-fi equipment? Or do we need the assorted X10 video receiver (as the one shown in the article?)
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
Just the other day, my boss was telling me that now when he and his wife stay in someone's guest bedroom, he's always nervous about whether there is an X10 camera hidden in there.
I suppose I could build him one of these, and he could have at least some idea of whether he's being watched or not...
steve
Oh, you're not stuck, you're just unable to let go of the onion rings.
Well, the average reader isn't going to find much use in this, but imagine how handy it would be to the average burglar or rapist. They don't have to take the inital risk of peeking in the windows.
You can scope out a house in advance, see if anyone is home, etc. etc.
Wireless functionality is great, but I wouldn't use those cameras in my home without some form of encryption.
Or get one of these: Icom R3. Far more portable.
...I'll sell you tickets to look at mine.
Beats a couple hundred bucks spent for that hardware.
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
Actually, the UK, and London especially, has tons of video surveillance. (See The New York Times, October 7, 2001, "BEING WATCHED: A Cautionary Tale for a New Age of Surveillance" By JEFFREY ROSEN--my appologies for not knowing how to mirror this.) I'd want to know if I were on camera.... I don't really imagine doing anything that anyone couldn't see in public. But depending on what happens to the tapes, I can certainly imagine as camera become increasingly present, wanting to patronize certain businesses over others on the basis of how little they spy on me.
Been there, done that. This is really nothing new by any means.
The way things are nowdays I wouldn't want to be seen walking around toting something that looks like what they built.
Liable to get you hauled in for a chat...
I have a bit to say about the X-10 here, it's really not all it's cracked up to be:
Surveillance Losing Its Fun...
I picked up a cheap hard wired color ccd camera, and now instead of a blank screen on a turned off TV, I have a video feed of the back yard, and the bird feeder, and wild life action.
It is like an extra window in the house.
Just use this
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http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISA
Icom IC-R3 Instead... I would never carry that gigantic contraption along with me...
a reason for geeks everywhere to get out of the house!
[and this one's a little more accessible to most than war-driving!]
This definately would fall under the same category of a tempest type system where you're still picking up a private camera system or monitor of something else.
Think there's a associated federal law about this.
Back in the day when cell phones were mostly analog and scanners could still pick up conversations, I used to think about hooking up a cd player to a cell phone and broadcasting my own show so that all the people listening to conversations could listen to my "station." Heck, I know a lot of people that were listening to cell phone conversations back then, so I might of had more listeners than some of the AM stations in my town.
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Ron Paul
What most people that have seen mission impossible don't realise is that shafts are insulated. This prickly insulation is painfull and easily torn (leading to much ichiness).
Did i mention the shaft is fitted with 3 inch spikes to keep the insulation in place? Anyone who can sucessfully get through without dying of blood loss deserves at least some loot.
Course this is only how we do it in 'oz. Perhaps Americans with their usual concern for energy wastage haven't discovered insulation yet.
Do not dismiss X10 (the technology) just because some lame company has hijacked it and promotes the use of the products for illegal surveillance (yes, making a recording of you trying to boink your drunk and ugly date without her knowing is indeed illegal).
There are plenty of good companies to get X10 products from without going through X10.com. Smarthome and Radio Shack are a couple.
It's a shame X10.com chose the sleasy marking route because it really has tainted a pretty decent and useful technology.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
Of snooping on people using these webcams to snoop?
I wouldn't stick my thing in the part sex press.
Wonder how I can increase the pickup range of these things. I have a DVD screen in my van that has RCA jacks available. This would be neat to hook up the receiver and drive around. I know what I will be doing tonight!!!
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
Yes, the X10 is useless against the KRUSHING POWER OF KOMPRESSOR. We've heard wonderous story of KOMPRESSOR in Guitar Center, KRUSHING 'Stairway to heaven' players.
:-)
Imagine KOMPRESSOR versus X10. Watch out, X10! KOMPRESSOR WILL USE KRUSHING POWER AGAINST YOUR WIMPY SIGNAL!
KOMPRESSOR DOES NOT DANCE, sure. But he will certainly be celebrating the death of the X10.