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Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi

Posted by Soulskill on from the they-don't-want-your-kind-around-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Amid the backlash against spy-eye drones as well as wearable cameras like Google Glass, one company is building a device to fight back. The Cyborg Unplug actively scans for drones or Google Glass on a local wireless network and blocks their traffic. They're billing it as an "anti-surveillance system" and marketing it toward businesses, restaurants, and schools. They take pains to note that it's not a jammer, instead sending copies of a de-authentication packet usually sent by a router when it disconnects a device. The device can, however, force devices to disconnect from any network, which they warn may be illegal in some places.

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  1. Re:Seems fine to me. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    You realize that it's a HUD, not just a video camera, right? And, when the video camera is active, there's a light telling you so, right?

  2. Re:legal loopholes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, not grey zone. It falls in the "Otherwise interferes" category. Illegal no matter how you look at it.

    http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/jammerenforcement/jamfaq.pdf

    In short.....
        An access point can terminate a connection or refuse to accept one.
        A wireless client can terminate its own connection.
        You can compete for bandwidth to or with an Access Point or other device on the same frequency to do your own communication (but doing so just to block another signal or communication is classified as jamming).

    If you want to block Goggle Glass or Drones the Access Point must be the device that does it.

  3. Breaking the Law... by Etherwalk · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is arguably a violation of 47 U.S.C. Section 333 (2012), prohibiting willful or malicious interference with radio communications.