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Holy shit.
This guy takes a couple of minutes of audio from a security camera anywhere in the US, with no clues from the video whatsoever, and finds the exact spot where it was recorded.
How?
By correlating the Doppler curve sounds from two almost inaudible planes passing by with public ADS-B flight data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UytYrhYLOKI (29 min)
I think this is the #OSINT video of the year.
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@scy generally a great OSINT channel
still a little annoyed about his primitive technology video, though
@scy he found the locaiton of the Primitive Technology channel with OSINT. And showed all the steps to replicate it, only thing he didn't do was to show the actual location. Just all the steps to do it yourself, basically
Which is sad, because the filming location being doxxed would basically ruin that channel
@scy Well, that's terrifying.
Should make a program to generate artificial aircraft sounds to either spoof or mask your location 🤔
@scy Gibbs: We only have an audio of 56 seconds. Abby, can you locate them?
Abby: Wait a sec... Yes, I found two inaudible doppler sounds of propeller plains passing by, I can extract speed and distance from that, and we have public ADS-B data... out of 50,000 possible flights... correlating, just a moment
Gibbs: I don't want glibberish, I want the location
Abby: (turns and smiles) Match! Found em!
Dunno... That would have been too much, right
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Haha noice. I saw some similar exploits about base freauencies of high voltage power lines working to trace phone calls
@scy I’m surprised he didn’t have to include wind in the model. I wonder if this is just luck or systematic.
@scy so we juste have to stop every plane seems to be a good idea
By the way, on the same channel there's also this video: Finding a location by utilizing thunder sounds in the audio's background
https://youtu.be/SnbkIm56TfI (15 min)
Because it turns out that we as a civilization record every single lightning strike's time and location.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#Detection_and_monitoring
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In the UK the police record the hum from the electrical grid and have used it in court to prosecute criminals.
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/hidden-electrical-noise-can-catch-criminals
@scy american woukd use anything but the gps system
(impressive work)
@scy the maths behind this is so cool, it's a really good video
@scy Interestingly this wouldn't work in a lot of Ukraine. No flights. Well, not commercial traffic.
@scy but, if you have the audio from two cameras, which are presumably fixed in position, then you have already narrowed the area down quite a lot.
@scy Excellent method if you happen to have misplaced your security camera.
@scy I'm blown away enough by the cleverness of this method to comment, but also too blown away to know what to say.
Yikes?! Significant privacy implications here. 🤯