Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Hey, now _this_ is cool. :-)

Via Wired News.

[snip]

When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in 
public spaces without a court order, the Austrian civil liberties group Quintessenz vowed to watch the watchers.

Members of the organization 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.

[snip]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69942-0.html

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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