GOV/MIL Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Welcome to Open Fields

[Signwatcher]

Find out the names of the individuals involved and set up a camera or surveillance on their properties. How you like me now?

 

[LoupGarou]

How is it I never heard about Pwnagotchi before?? I've got to get out more.
Thanks, Loup. You're always a source of new enlightment!

There are a bunch of neat tools out there now. Check out Dstike for a few more similar tools (DSTIKE). There are also a bunch of fun little tools for sigint on WiFi. And if you don't mind making your own hardware, there is an insane amount of cool code on github and others to use/abuse.

I'm in the process of playing with SIGINTOS on a few systems to see how much they have improved that. Mostly I use my bigger Dell servers that run multiple SDR inputs (mainly HackRF and similar, but a few USRP and higher end units), but I have been playing with Raspberry Pi (3 and 4) based SIGINT platforms that have multiple SDRs for input and either WiFi, LoRa or burp for "output" back to me. And a raspberry Pi with a large Lithium pack can be delivered (and retrieved if desired) by UAV or R/C vehicle really easily.

Loup

 

[LoupGarou]

Neat tool. I should check to see if it's included in Kali Linux yet. Probably overkill in this case. I would guess you'd need maybe 5-10 minutes of Wireshark, mainly to capture how the AP talks to the camera to wake it up, and see what other things you can catch. Rather than try to break their encryption, since that would be an even uglier hacking charge, I'd just want to see if there's anything I can do to prevent the camera from being able to communicate effectively. Breaking the encryption and shutting it off or changing it would be obviously the work of a hacker. Preventing the camera from being able to connect to the AP by constantly deauthing it could potentially be attributable to a bad network connection.

You can play with the code from here:

GitHub - evilsocket/pwnagotchi: (⌐■_■) - Deep Reinforcement Learning instrumenting bettercap for WiFi pwning.

(⌐■_■) - Deep Reinforcement Learning instrumenting bettercap for WiFi pwning. - GitHub - evilsocket/pwnagotchi: (⌐■_■) - Deep Reinforcement Learning instrumenting bettercap for WiFi pwning.

github.com

Loup

 

[LoupGarou]

They're cell camera's, sends a pic in a text when it takes a pic.

I have some that are both WiFi and others that are cellular. And I have seen some "homemade" ones that use LoRa to a separate repeater out on 3GHz (Ubiquity long haul equipment).

Loup

 

[Sportsman]

There are a bunch of neat tools out there now.

I'm in the process of playing with SIGINTOS on a few systems to see how much they have improved that.
Loup

Thanks, Loup. I tried to use SIGINTOS last year and never was able to do anything useful with it. Hopefully it's improved since. Kali and a few tools were more useful to me.

There just aren't enough hours in the day any more. So many interests, so much to learn, so much to do... and there's a real life to deal with.

Sportsman

 

[intothatgoodnight]

Grandma Sez-
Taking the family, CHILDREN INCLUDED, out for some nude sunbathing some sunny day would CONSIDERABLY complicate the “state‘s claim to come photograph you on your private property. Or invite some nudists for a one time picnic on your land, informing them about it.
Upon later finding the camera later, you can turn the photos over to a lawyer, ask if it is recorded the names of everyone who would be and was allowed to see these photographs and the end disposition of the photographs, RECORDS, OFFICIAL RECORDS, the government hates opening records on their illegal activity. They may be allowed on the property but ARE NOT ALLOWED TO COVERTLY, CREATE PORN PHOTOS, (you and the wife “making love“ in the hay) and/or ESPECIALLY CHILD PORN ON YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY! Now THAT would gain some traction and news coverage, and public attention in court!

Get the enabling, open fields “law” CHANGED!

Reasonable probable cause, signed off by a judge, MUST be prerequisite to this government action and required before launching such an invasion of privacy.

Despite laws to the contrary, three letter operatives of the deep state, under the command of DNC management, busied themselves with extensive spying on Team Trump, before and during Trump's presidency - despite the clear, black-letter laws, as well as the special/significant legal hurdles/requirements in place via the FISA court system (secret court) before acquiring court-approved surveillance permissions, Team Trump's privacy rights were/have been repeatedly and willfully violated/ignored.

Didn't work for Team Trump, won't work for J6P, either. Just ask GEN Flynn.

Something different will have to be tried, in protecting/securing/guaranteeing J6P's supposed rights.


intothegoodnight

 

[intothatgoodnight]

Pull the SD card out, DoD wipe it with something like Darik's Boot and Nuke, then format it to something like EXT4 and stick it back in the camera. The camera will not understand the format and will not use the card, so no images will be saved.

On the other hand, I would LOVE to know the make and model of camera used and what the "antenna" is there for (I'm thinking that it could be WiFi access so that they can remotely check on them without having to get too close). If that is the case, then you should be able to tell when they are in the area as they will have to pull up an extra AP (Access Point) for the unit to tie into, and when that happens, then you can even find out what their AP name is and start to have fun with that part of their system. I'm willing to bet that ALL of that group's cameras use tie into the same AP. If that is the case, then as soon as the AP's SSID is found, then someone can wardrive around and find ALL of the other cameras by spoofing that AP and watching for connections.

Interesting comment.

Likely, if the camera is sophisticated enough to run a possible WiFi transceiver, then it is just as likely to use a nearby cell tower data/LTE connection - similar to how human implanted pacemakers and other recent implantable medical devices are able to "phone home" via an LTE connection from a provided matching home base unit.

WiFi has a limited range, as it were, even when using beam/focused, point-to-point external WiFi antennas - cell data/LTE connections, on the other hand, will transmit/receive across MUCH greater distances at high data rates, possibly in a timed burst mode to conserve battery power - every X hours, the system lights up its LTE connecting and forwards the latest batch of imagery. It would be interesting to map-out where ANY nearby cell towers are, in relation to the location of these cameras, just to deduce whether this cell/LTE approach might be what they are using.

If these cameras are THAT sophisticated (this cell data/LTE tech is currently in wide-spread use in the commercial/J6P world, and equipments/transceiver prices have dropped like a rock in the last ~5 or so years) and utilize such, would be curious about how the batteries are periodically recharged - transceivers of any kind are notorious battery abusers.

But, being that this is the FedGov, I'd bet that they have yet to deploy such high tech, sophisticated surveillance gear (read: not inexpensive) into the field, and are using a much lower tech data acquisition approach - memory cards or something similar - which would imply that the cameras would have to be "serviced" by a human on a reoccurring basis, in order to change out the memory card/stick, or download to a human-carried capture device.


intothegoodnight

 

[intothatgoodnight]

There is one amendment that is missing from the constitution.
The one detailing the penalties for doing(or passing)unconstitutional acts.

I have pondered this point regarding constitutional issues, many times - the Founding Fathers failed to provide an included legal device for recognizing illegal incursions/violations of citizen rights by an out-of-control government - nor, per se, affordable criminal penalties/legal remedies available to the citizenry.

The Second Amendment was noted as being the final "judge" against a tyrannical government, by anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson - generally speaking, that appears to be about as far as they went into putting penalty-teeth into U.S. Constitution and BoR.

And, as many know and understand - when citizens wish to legally pursue the government for alleged citizen rights violations, the government has essentially unlimited resources and a self-protecting judiciary that watches out "for their own" in legal matters - generally speaking, the citizen has no such economic nor legal deep-pockets/connections available in their pursuit of complaint against an overbearing government.

Funny, that. Suspect John Adams and other Federalist cohorts had a hand in this obvious omission.


intothegoodnight

 

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