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Research: Radio Mirror

Amanda Hickman edited this page Oct 3, 2017 · 1 revision

Radio Mirror

A device (booth?) that captures your radio output and reflects it back to you. Unclear thus far how creepy it ought to be -- does it remember the last time you were here? Pull up a photo it took of you last time?

Frequencies include: pacemakers, RFID cards, cell phones, wireless cards, bluetooth

Prior Art

Software-defined radio to demodulate wireless packets and produce dumps that can be fed to wireshark: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/GSoCPastProjects#80211an-receiver-and-wireshark-connector

A device specifically for learning more about the state of local wifi networks https://www.wifipineapple.com/

gnu radio code for bluetooth packets http://gr-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/

http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/DIYRFIDReader

http://www.zachpoff.com/projects/pondstation/

GQRX -- radio receiver

Laura Poitras has a piece in the current "Astro Noise" show that includes data leaked from local wifi devices. however, looking at it, i couldn't get it to register any of my own devices. it's possible that it was displaying info from devices that weren't physically present.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/arts/design/laura-poitras-astro-noise-examines-surveillance-and-the-new-normal.html

We also discover that whatever electronic devices we’re carrying have been detected and recorded: We see coded references to them scrolling down a video screen.

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