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.
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
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
Or just shoot it.
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?
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.
The antidote
the PhotosOfRealNature folder…and browsing history because they don’t deserve the memes
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.
Police will do everything to hide their wrongdoing but they won’t obey the laws they claim to enforce.
ACAB
Looks like Ethernet cams are the answer after all.
Always have been. 🌎🔫
Copper mesh that’s strategically placed will defend against this.
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
Now this is some watchdogs 2 shit
Looks like Ethernet cams are the answer after all.
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
Electronic warfare pup.
Cool, so my hardwired cameras won’t be affected, and they’ll be announcing themselves with tons of suspicious radio activity. I’ll know exactly when to react to their arrival.
So this is the ‘mechanical hound’ that RayBradbury was referring to in Farenheit 451.
I forgot about that… The black mirror episode with them was terrifying.
Right, can’t have records of illegal raids, theft or murder uploaded somewhere before they can destroy/confiscate them…
