[liberationtech] LRAD counter-measures?

[Chris Csikszentmihalyi]

Hi Jay,

This didn't seem to come through liberationtech...

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Chris Csikszentmihalyi <robotic at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> Haven't worked on the LRAD yet, but one of my graduate students did build
> what I think is the world's first Taser detector.  It looked like a broach
> and could be worn on your lapel or shirt pocket. Tasers generate AM waves
> all over the spectrum, but the jolts are modulated and it was fairly easy
> to pull out that specific signal.  It had bluetooth and a nice phone app
> that measured how many times and for how long you were tased and,
> optionally, could make an outgoing call to your mom or the ACLU.
>
> curl http://web.media.mit.edu/~csik/adamTaser.mov > taser.mov
>
> It worked like a charm but in the end he kept the ham hock around for too
> long in the grad student cube fridge and got food poisoning... you just
> can't win.
>
> C.
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jay Cassano <jay at jcassano.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Lib-Tech,
>>
>> I'm a freelance journalist covering the intersection of tech and
>> politics. I'm wondering if any lib-techers know of or have experimented
>> with ways to disable or reduce the sound from the long-rage acoustic
>> devices that the NYPD has been deploying lately. LRADs were also used
>> during Occupy.
>>
>> You know, maybe something like this? http://xkcd.com/368/ ;) (I know it
>> doesn't quite work that way...)
>>
>> Protesters have been talking about the use of LRADs for a while now, but
>> the Times just picked up on it in the recent #BlackLivesMatter/#ThisStopsToday
>> protests:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/nyregion/lawyers-raise-
>> concerns-over-shrill-device-used-by-police-during-garner-protests.html?
>>
>> If anyone knows of attempts to build such counter-measures or has ideas
>> for how one might be built, please feel free to reply to me off-list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay
>>
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>> Senior Writer, Fast Company
>> Technology Correspondent, Waging Nonviolence
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>
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