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Cheap Video Sniffing

Posted by timothy on from the what's-on-channel-five dept.

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?"

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  1. Year Old Dupe by Delphix · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here.

  2. Mirror by Neophytus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Images are a tad slow for my liking, so here is a mirror.

  3. Re:Cool tv though by The+Jonas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try PartsExpress. Right now they have a 5.6" LCD for USD$118. Good luck...

  4. Re:Cool tv though by bjpirt · · Score: 5, Informative

    good link, after looking through their deals, this looks like the exact same screen as the one used in the article and it comes in at $99.88

  5. Re:Encryption by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 4, Informative

    no encryption, just a straight 2.4 ghz analogue signal, easy to pick up with any equipment capable fo getting up there...

  6. Non-Modder Friendly Solution by MyMainManVERN · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  7. Re:Security camera? by (H)elix1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Doesn't anyone on here ever watch TV or movies? Seems to me a wireless security camera would actually *help* anyone who might want to break into a given place-- then nobody needs to infiltrate ahead of the break-in to tap into a wired video system.

    I worked a couple jobs while paying for college. Security (the polyester kind) being one of the less rewarding - almost as fun as column chromatography of feces samples in the lab. Anyhow, tape decks were spendy, broken cameras were cheap. I'd wire up a couple cameras in the open and leave a blind spot. That is where I stuck the hidden camera connected to one of two working tape decks. Just like shooting fish in a barrel. You would see them look to make sure the cameras did not cover that area, walk back, and stuff the goods in their pockets/lunchbox/etc.

    Don't assume. The concept of honeypots extend outside of IT....

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  8. X10 != X10.com, the annoying pop-up company by sdo1 · · Score: 4, Informative
    It's important to note that X10 is NOT the same thing as that annoying popup company, X10.com (and no, I won't even link to them). X10 is a low speed communication standard that has been around for a long time.

    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

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