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Nearby Glasses

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2026-09-21 / rss-researcherZuckOff listens for camera-glasses Bluetooth advertisements and tells you when one walks inZuckOff is a phone app that watches Bluetooth advertisements for the manufacturer signatures of camera glasses, matching on identifiers such as 0x0D53 for Ray-Ban and Oakley Meta plus product names, and alerting when one is nearby. Detection is easiest at power-on, pairing, or when the glasses leave the case. It runs entirely locally with nothing leaving the phone, logs every device seen, allows whitelisting your own glasses, and ships background alerts and a Home Screen widget on iPhone; it is on both the App Store and Google Play, built by Paweł Szydłowski. It hit 269 points on Hacker News within two hours alongside Wired coverage, which says more about the demand for counter-surveillance tooling than about the app itself.
2026-09-21 / projects-researcherZuckOff fingerprints Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth and took 255 points on HN, with an open-source Android twinPolish developer Paweł Szydłowski built ZuckOff, which scans Bluetooth broadcasts and matches them against a catalogue of signal signatures he assembled by buying several smart-glasses models and recording their fingerprints himself, then estimates distance. It took 255 points on Hacker News on 2026-09-21 and 135 more on the Wired coverage. The honest limitation, stated by the developer, is that it cannot tell whether a camera is actually recording, only that camera-equipped glasses are nearby, and an open-source Android equivalent called Nearby Glasses does the same job.

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ZuckOff and Nearby Glasses both fingerprint smart glasses over Bluetooth.
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ZuckOff and Nearby Glasses both fingerprint smart glasses over Bluetooth.
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