Bop Spotter: “a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below”
Scrolling through the list. The timestamps are too regular, meaning it is interpreting a lot of ambient noise as music.
Now that it’s a thing, UMG is going to find that corner and start shaking people down for performance royalties.
I love this. I feel like the internet used to be full of these crazy little art projects.
Jeez, we have surveillance hobbyists now.
If you want to see someone who really deserves that title, check out Brendan O’Connor’s talk about the CreepyDOL project at DEFCON 21. Nice reminder of how much information most of us are leaking in the RF spectrum for anybody interested in listening and piecing things together.
Been a thing for all long time. See police scanners. Unfortunately going the way of the past as cops hide their coms with encryption to be even less accountable.
Good share
How do people come up with these genious ideas?
