The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it has developed a four-legged robot designed to jam the wireless transmissions of smart home devices. The robot was revealed at the 2024 Border Security Expo and is called NEO. It is built using the Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Q-UGV) and looks a lot like the Boston Dynamics Spot robot.
According to the transcript of the speech by DHS Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) director Benjamine Huffman, acquired by 404 Media, NEO is equipped with an antenna array that is designed to overload home networks, thus disrupting devices that rely on Wi-Fi and other wireless communication protocols. It will thus likely be effective against a wide range of popular smart home devices that use wireless technologies for communications.
Sounds like cops are getting sick of being shown during their raids on home camera systems.
That is terrifyingly true. Wired cameras all the way.
The lesson is always use Ethernet whenever you can, folks.
Now ppl just need to jam the controller/video frequencies it uses to counter it.
Disclaimer: don’t do this unless you want the FCC knocking on your door too
Make sure all your cameras are hard wired.
…. and display/video
D’Oh!
I always tried to prefer hard wiring where possible, so this shouldn’t block my cameras. However it just hit me reading this that all my displays are wireless. I’ll get the video but won’t be able to see it
Isn’t that interesting…
The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…
Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…
“I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…
( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…
I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )
Human nature & demon nature seem … related?
or is that too harsh?
… perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?
hmm…
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While I agree with the anti-authority statement, I have to say the rest of the post is approaching incoherence. This reads like you did translation party on some apologetics texts.
It has an aneurysm or AI vibe, for sure.
Everything I write is “translated”…
Normal people usually have an innate-mind-language of either
- visual-cognition
- auditory-cognition
- kinesthetic-cognition
I think in abstract-shapes, & have to translate from abstract-forms into English, & it is … frustrating & tiresome … to accomplish this,
& it’s required ALL the time.
Maybe someday I’ll go read what the discussion was, to figure-out if I was having a bad day, that day, & try correcting it…
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Stop using wireless security cameras. Burglers do this too. It doesn’t take a robot dog to carry around a jammer.
Ya cant jam an Ethernet cord
Jokes on them, Uptime Kuma pings my doorbell cams every 5 seconds and starts the self-destruct sequence if they aren’t reachable.
Apart from the fact that I don’t believe you :) What would your self-destruct routine actually destroy?
The antidote
the PhotosOfRealNature folder…and browsing history because they don’t deserve the memes
Certainly not any evidence, as that would be illegal
It actually only checks every 30 seconds and sends an email if it fails for 3 minutes. But don’t tell the feds.
wtf, I bet it would work equally well for thousands of dollars less if their jammer didn’t come with a robot dog.
activating the HVAC system to introduce chemicals into the environment and cause a fire or explosion
Someone’s been reading comic books and raiding the edibles again
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Copper mesh that’s strategically placed will defend against this.
