Hackers in Austria (English version here) are using some interesting tricks to defeat surveillance technology.
Members of the organization (Austrian civil liberties group Quintessenz) worked out a way to intercept the camera images with an inexpensive, 1-GHz satellite receiver. The signal could then be descrambled using hardware designed to enhance copy-protected video as it’s transferred from DVD to VHS tape.
The Quintessenz activists then began figuring out how to blind the cameras with balloons, lasers and infrared devices.”
Read the full Wired Magazine article.
Life is going to be interesting in this century. At least, it will be for me since I really enjoy all this geeky new technology we keep inventing, and the cultural paradigm shifts caused by it. Where are we going? It’s going to be an interesting ride.