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.
… 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 of compiling it, it should be easily found on fdroid.
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
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?
APK now available! 🎉 github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android/releases
Download app-debug.apk — no build needed. Works on Android 8.0+
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.
APK now available! 🎉 github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android/releases
Download app-debug.apk — no build needed. Works on Android 8.0+
APK now available! 🎉 github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android/releases
Download app-debug.apk — no build needed. Works on Android 8.0+
How does it differ from Nearby Glasses, apart from detecting more AR headsets?
Great question! Key differences:
- NoPeek detects BOTH smart glasses AND VR headsets (Quest, Vision Pro, Pico, Vive, PSVR etc)
- Background scanning via foreground service — works when app is closed
- Distance estimation (~2m ~5m ~10m)
- Detection history saved locally
- Configurable RSSI threshold and notification cooldown
- Smart device grouping
- Sound alarm on detection
Nearby Glasses is great and inspired some of our detection approach — NoPeek builds on it with more devices and more features.
Good question, seems newer but rely on the same mechanism.
Someone else mentioned the less copyleft license (MIT vs. AGPL) as something to consider.
But does it hit them with DDOS attacks?
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.
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.
APK now available! 🎉 github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android/releases
Download app-debug.apk — no build needed. Works on Android 8.0+
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.
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