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Posted by timothy on Sunday May 4, 2003 @04:18AM 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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Don't you know? by Maradine · 2003-05-04 04:20 · Score: 5, Funny

"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?

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Legal? Moral? by SilverSun · 2003-05-04 04:23 · Score: 5, Funny

I guess if I put my bedroom on air, I can't expect people to look away.

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Mirror by Neophytus · 2003-05-04 04:23 · Score: 5, Informative

Images are a tad slow for my liking, so here is a mirror.
Ummm... by Craig+Maloney · 2003-05-04 04:24 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:Ummm... by Pike65 · 2003-05-04 04:48 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Amen.
  
  A quick trudge of any *shudder* blog site is more than enough to convince me that everyone else leads a life as boring as mine.
  
  Of course, it may just be that the people with interesting lives are out living them. Now there's a thought . . .
  
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Security camera? by Fulkkari · 2003-05-04 04:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

After walking for about a half a block across 13th Street, we got a picture. It was a security camera picture of some interior hallway. Must have been in a nearby building.

Why in the hell would a security camera be wireless? And this thing doesn't even seem to be encrypted!

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1. Re:Security camera? by (H)elix1 · 2003-05-04 06:09 · 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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I know nobody is going to read tha article by lucifuge31337 · 2003-05-04 04:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

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).

More /. quality.

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Re:Cool tv though by bjpirt · 2003-05-04 04:40 · 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
finally.... by Tablizer · 2003-05-04 04:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Free Porn!

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Non-Modder Friendly Solution by MyMainManVERN · 2003-05-04 05:06 · 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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Simply Amazing! by Andrew+Lockhart · 2003-05-04 05:08 · Score: 5, Funny

A 2.4Ghz video sniffer built with *GASP* a 2.4Ghz video receiver!
Re:Year Old Dupe by evilviper · 2003-05-04 05:14 · Score: 5, Funny

No... That's the new Slashdot business plan. Subscribers get to see the story a year early...

Yes, it's completely intentional.

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Child abuse by jhines · 2003-05-04 05:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.
Re:Okay... by Catnapster · 2003-05-04 06:13 · Score: 5, Insightful

There is a difference between what is being discussed and invasion of privacy. If I encrypt the feed, breaking it would be an invasion of privacy; however, the only "privacy" you get for broadcasting unencrypted signal is privacy from people without receivers.

It's like if I walk down the street and people use X-ray glasses to stare at my crotch - that is an invasion of privacy. But this is the equivalent of me walking down the street with my dick dangling merrily. If I show it for the world to see, it's pretty dumb to get mad at people who look.

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