Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones

[Fire Walk With Me]

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Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/01/tiny-device-will-detect-domestic-drones


Worried about drones spying on you? Soon, a device might be able to send you text and email alerts that let you know when a drone is nearby.

A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield," a small, Wi-Fi-connected device that uses a microphone to detect a drone's "acoustic signatures" (sound frequency and spectrum) when it's within range.

The company's founder, John Franklin, who has been working in aerospace engineering for seven years, says he hopes to start selling the device sometime this year. He is using the Kickstarter-like Indiegogo to finance the project.

The device will cost $69 and will be about the size of a USB thumb drive. It will use Raspberry Pi – a tiny, $25 computer – and commercially available microphones to detect drones. He says he imagines that people will attach the Drone Shield to their fences or roofs to protect their home from surveillance.

(More at the link.)

[99th_Monkey]

1. Time for drone makers to invent "detector scramblers" to avoid detection.We've gone totally nuts. nt

[defacto7]

2. Nice idea...

It would be a rather simple device to make at home. But that price is really good for a manufactured item. I could probably make it for $20 as a DIY but $69 isn't bad.

[Kablooie]

3. How can it detect drone's acoustic signature ...

when no one even knows what kind of drones will be used or what they look like?
There are dozens of flying gizmos that could be defined as a drone.

We aren't going to have armed weaponry flying over us every day and blowing up neighborhoods and buildings all over the country.

This drone panic is idiocy and this guy is simply a scammer.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Very good points. There are more than one type of drone, and DARPA's drone flies at 20K'.

But that one is more for following people than for using electronic surveillance to check on what is occurring in any particular home. Theoretically there must be some degree of proximity for this to occur, albeit not noticeable proximity. I imagine that WIFI is as vulnerable to spying by drones as is the visible spectrum via cameras. I posted an article here a bit back regarding DHS having placed spy tech in domestic drones despite having claimed not doing so. It will pay to bone up if you are an activist, although of course in so doing, you will present "negative space" equally as "visible".

Fuck the security state and its neocon/plutonomy/Bush family masters.

[Unknown Beatle]

4. Drones are another

way to dismantle our right to privacy. It's crazy that it has come down to this but the powers-that-be don't give a shit about our rights.

[d_r]

5. that would be a mighty big thumb drive

to have a raspberry pi and a microphone in it. It would probably have to be at least 4 inches long. And if you are going to mount it outside it would have to be weatherproofed, I'm thinking this is vapor.

[Old Codger]

6. So now

That I know I is there how exactly do I then "protect" my home from surveillance?

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Infra-red blocking material, dampened double windows, use of IR lamps to diffuse, etc. n/t