Hello, I'm using this thread to ask for ideas on what to do with a Meshtastic compatible board. Specifically, I would like the capability to track, record , perform counter surveillance of the growing militarized surveillance state of my country.
Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcement ? Track suspected federal employee vehicles? Please give me some ideas. I'm also wondering if theres something I can do with SDR dongles.
>>32353>Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcementMaybe you can go out now and make experiments, put the device you are going to use promiscious mode and check if they have some fingerprint you could use. Then you would have to deploy a considerable amount of them (how are you going to finance it?) which I find it hard. Are you in an org? You would help more that way than with individual action.
>>32360Also, have you tried considering asking on lainchan? If you do try to make a good OP post so it doesn't get flagged as soykaf, lurk there a bit or ask on their IRC (I guess)
1. Publicly participating and posting your results makes you a target.
2. When FLOCK understands that everyone is signal hunting their gear, billionaire money will be dumped into SIGINT Hardening.
3. I know under good authority that their are ALPR Cameras designed to look like bolts that are present on busy roads. I don't know who is using them or where. I just know that these are used. Stealth Cameras will be the name of the game. When FLOCK internalizes that they will always be treated as the enemy, they will focus on stealth cameras.
4. Self Driving Cars, Ubiquitous Smart Doorbells, and centralized standardized Government CCTV Access of cameras will create greater and greater dragnets. This will make focusing on any one system a waste of time.
5. Meshtastic is a low bandwidth tool per legal requirements. Maybe repurposed software built for meshtastic scales up into 5G 10KM tech? Maybe not? Either way, you want a secret hidden hunter that transmits nothing and receives everything. You will take your data and turn it into a viewable project that can be shared over onion addresses.
6. Cybersecurity you might want for this project: Qubes OS, VPN, Encrypted DNS, IDS/IPS, and self hosted gear. You know you will be angering authoritarians. You know that sniffing traffic is legally risky. Go in knowing you can't get help from AI's you don't host yourself.
TLDR: Surveillance State Grows, diminishing impact of sniffing any one system. When they learn you are doing this, they will adapt as their resources are superior to yours.
One big thing I forgot to mention in my last post is the "so what" principle.
PRISM leaked, the public said "so what".
XKEYSCORE leaked, the public said "so what".
Insert Scandal here leaked, the public said "so what".
You could pour your time and money into this project, only to be treated with a "so what" attitude. They will also say, "I have nothing to hide".
Whistle blowing and investigative journalism almost served as a normalization engine to government programs.
People who mistrust the government usually get on-boarded to the reality of surveillance pretty quickly. Rather than prove the reality of surveillance at great cost to you personally, focus on promoting mistrust of the government among boring liberals aged 18 to 25. Then sneak in some surveillance knowledge.