Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Protecting Your Property from Flying Stalker Drones

We do not accept the premise that anyone's rights stop at the top of your home's chimney and rights for airborne surveillance from anywhere above that area ... belong to everyone else.

The short read on how to deal with these window-peeping stalkers is by broadcasting from your home on the drone control frequencies and at sufficient 'volume' the stalker drone can no longer 'hear' its base station and it falls out of the sky, hopefully into a swimming pool, ideally unoccupied at the time.

For the full details on the specifics of drone control frequencies, review RF Link for Civilian Drones.

Here's an example from the same DigiKey source:


Frequency27 MHz49 MHz50 MHz53 MHz72 MHz75 MHz2.4 GHz
Ch. 126.99549,83050,80053,10072,01075,4102,401,000
Ch. 227.04549,84550,82053,20072,02075,4302,402,000
Ch. 327.09549,86050,84053,30072,03075,4702,403,000
Ch. 427.14549,87550,86053,40072,04075,4902,404,000
Ch. 527.19549,89050,88053,50072,05075,5102,405,000
Ch. 627.25550,90053,60072,06075,5302,406,000
Ch. 750,92053,70072,07075,5502,407,000
Ch. 850,94053,80072,08075,5702,408,000
Ch. 950,96072,09075,5902,409,000
Ch. 1050,98072,10075,6102,410,000
......
Ch. 6072,990
...
Ch. 80
...2,480,000
Ch. 9075,990

Table 1: Common channels and frequencies for radio control. 



Translating that into hardware is integrated circuitry from Atmel AT86RF231-ZUR.  Exploiting that requires knowledge of building integrated circuit boards but the point is only the technology is easily accessible to make transceivers (i.e. transmit/receiver devices) for the specific purpose of transmitting on drone frequencies.  The article on Civilian Drones gives extensive technical information on that.

As to locating a device which has already been built, we suggest the interested student review drone transceivers in DuckDuckGo (i.e. no tracking)

(Ed:  you're helping terrorists!)

Yer ass.  You think they don't know this already??  Their interest is in military drones which will blow them to bits and we rather doubt they care much about yer tinker toy videos for YouTube.  Oh, isn't the California coast so beautiful from an airborne view!  Yah, yah, so are kittens.  Let's drone those little fuckers and see how they do.


The big expense and where DARPA is having a field day with ridiculously-expensive projects is in building the drone transceiver so it's highly-directional.  For home protection, we don't care about directional since we want to broadcast in three sixty degrees to drop any drone which flies within it.

(Ed:  what will this do to military drones?)

Probably nothin'.  If those creeps come then they want to kill you and nothing will stop that.  Our concern for home protection is from the window-peeper stalkers.  Privacy matters anywhere ... except home?  WTF??

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

most drones fly on 2.4 using spread spectrum frequency hopping radios to avoid interference. Your best bet to avoid video is to jam the 5.8 uplink frequency. Even if you jam control frequencies most drones of a complexity to video spy are capable of autonomous flight with gps return to home capability. I video with mine all the time ,it provides a unique perspective. Just because it flies with a camera don't automatically assume it's looking at you. Check the list of prohibitions on drones and it already covers most of your concerns. As I'm sure you're already aware liberal thinking mandates if you pass a law against nobody will do it"joke" Andy

Unknown said...

I'm definitely aware making another 55mph speed limit is just another unenforceable joke. I'm also aware the objective in tanking drones may be toward a 'liberal-thinking mandate' but it's in response to gross right wing intrusion. Ha! Unknown if such an approach will work against cop drones since their kit is borderline military.

From what you have said it doesn't seem likely the approach would work anyway but I'm sure a video drone from the Creepy Peepy Guy won't be flying autonomously and he's the perv who likely bugs people the most anyway. Same goes with Creepy Paparazzi Pukes.

It seems plan B is to jam their GPS but I'm sure you'll have the Feds knocking on your door even before you close the browser window for checking out that sort of thing.

Anonymous said...

$1500 and your drone is bullet proof, you would face much stiffer penalties for jamming it than the pilot for flying anywhere out of prohibited airspace.
Andy

Unknown said...

Well, dunno about bulletproof but the trust twelve-gauge should do a handy job. I really don't see it as a trivial thing as the 'right to peep' is whatever you may think of it but there's sure a lot more of it today than I have ever seen before. The most glaring likely violators are probably creep paparazzi and you see the sleaze those creeps try to find in the tabloids every time you check out at the supermarket.

Unknown if there's any buzz about it but requiring these things to be equipped with transponders seems a minimal requirement if only so drones can protect themselves from each other. Presumably the autonomous circuits recognize an incoming transponder signal and can factor that into their oh so crafty AI flight plan.