Meta has sold 7M+ Ray-Ban glasses that look identical to normal glasses but can record you silently.
NoPeek detects them using immutable BLE manufacturer company IDs signals that cannot be randomized or hidden unlike MAC addresses.
Detects: Meta Ray-Ban, Snap Spectacles, Oakley Meta, TCL RayNeo, Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Pico VR and more.
No ads. No tracking. No internet permission. Fully open source. MIT license.
This needs to be taken on. I’d love an app that just notifies me whenever there’s one nearby. Maybe it could play the “I’ll be watching you” bit out of the police song.
But does it hit them with DDOS attacks?
Pretty good idea considering this:
https://cambridgeanalytica.org/surveillance-privacy/dhs-ice-glasses-facial-recognition-2027-50722/
Americans, we live under fascist capitalism. We’ve got to adapt and push back.
FWIW I think detecting VR with Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Pico VR is quite funny. It’s like … hard NOT to detect such devices. You see a huge slab of plastic on the face of someone potentially looking in your direction and the cameras are numerous and visible.
So… for Meta Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta definitely because they are designed to look like traditional glasses and that’s IMHO very wrong. For others like Snap Spectacles or TCL RayNeo it’s quite obvious but still, OK makes sense.
Sadly as 404 media and others reported a lot of abuse came from wearing sneakingly such glasses then coercing people with the footage. I hope people who do abuse those tools do get prosecuted properly.
Just a thought: politicians should not be allowed to use such apps. This right-to-privacy shit has gone too far, in the wrong direction, protecting ONLY the wrong people.
Fairness is pretty much a left-wing principle whereas excluding others from the inner group is a right-wring principle… so it makes sense.
… No releases?
You can build from source with Android Studio.
The link to the APK seemingly is broken so that leaves just building from source, which it has instructions for.
So… No releases.
yeah, having to compile apks for android is mad inconvenient and the developer really just has to do it once. honestly, beyond the bare minimum, it should be easily found on fdroid.
I swear when I first saw this month or so ago there was an APK but I could be wrong.
My question is if it was there why did they take it down?
Yeah fdroid would be preferred over precompiled apks actually, since fdroid does the compiling to verify the compiled version doesn’t contain anything not in the code repo and reports stuff that may be unwanted that is in the repo.
Is this why obtainium has been returning no releases found!?
I thought obtainium was struggling with some aspect
What the fuck is that README and why does it stink of slop?
I’m not qualified to tell if the code is just as sloppy, but I’m not touching that.
How does it differ from Nearby Glasses, apart from detecting more AR headsets?
It looks vibe coded to me. Shitload of emojis in the readme, only three commits where all of the code was added at once via file upload, account is two days old and named specifically for this project
Good question, seems newer but rely on the same mechanism.
Someone else mentioned the less copyleft license (MIT vs. AGPL) as something to consider.
why does this need to be a separate app? There are other Bluetooth apps which will notify you when it sees a device with a mac address and will record the signal strength and keep a record on a map. Just add a profile to those apps for the manufacturer mac prefix.
Feel free to suggest similar apps that are privacy friendly (no spying ads, telemetry, or other unwanted “features”) and quick overview of where to enable realtime alerts for specific mac prefixes in the app to mimic this functionality. I’d be interested.
Thanks, but I couldn’t find a way to set alerts for a set of addresses like the OP app scans for, only for a specific MAC address. Wouldn’t be feasible to enter all possible addresses since that would be many millions of addresses for each manufacturer prefix.
If you go to Radar Alerts, set the filter to use the manufacturer. The readme in OPs GitHub page lists these manufacturers: https://github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android#️-devices-detected
Yeah, unfortunately the By Manufacturer list is limited and doesn’t for example include the Meta glasses 0x0D53. So, still isn’t a feasible alternative unless more prefixes are added or the ability to add your own is added.
I see, admittedly I didn’t check too closely but see what you’re saying now. I’ve had good luck with this app for tracking other BLE devices around. FWIW the MAC address filter takes a wild card value (using
*), but I’m not too familiar with how the manufacturer ID and MAC address manufacturer prefix are related, if at all. Anyway, all this to say that while the NoPeek app is focused on just smart glasses, other apps exist that have similar functionality, and are easier to install.
I would completely be fine with this app sending a hacking attempt in the direction of those glasses. If it can remotely brick those glasses, I’d be 100% fine with that. Hell, I’d install it myself
Fuck this garbage
