Apple assumes role of Big Brother

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Apple assumes role of Big Brother, by developing patent to automatically disable iPhone cameras at concerts and Police incidents.

The patent, which many see as a major assault against personal freedom, explains that in the presence of certain infrared signals, an iPhone could be controlled by outside sources to shut down its video capturing capabilities. This technology will be used to disable iPhones from filming police abuse scenarios, such as what took place back in May at the 2011 annual Wheeler Block Party at Western Illinois University.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/apple-a...and-police-or-government-abuse-incidents.html
 
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Lol, infrared..? All you would have to do is block the IR receiver with a case, piece of tape or your finger. Not sure how this would work well even if it somehow did get implemented.
 
T4rd said:
Lol, infrared..? All you would have to do is block the IR receiver with a case, piece of tape or your finger. Not sure how this would work well even if it somehow did get implemented.
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My guess would be it uses the camera sensor with software recognition.
 
Many companies have all kinds of crazy patents. This one has about zero chance of making it into real product.
 
T4rd said:
Lol, infrared..? All you would have to do is block the IR receiver with a case, piece of tape or your finger. Not sure how this would work well even if it somehow did get implemented.
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There is no IR receiver on the iPhones - the camera itself is what picks up the signal. Take any digital videocamera you have and start recording, then point any IR remote (TV, satellite, DVD, whatever) at it and push a button on the remote - the videocamera will "see" the IR pulses as flashes of light.

That's what this whole thing centers around, with software in the phone that receives those flashes/pulses and when decoded basically instructs the camera/video app to shut off.

If they can make it, someone will find a way to disable that potential probably just as fast as it's implemented. It's really not a concern at all at this point, just a scare tactic of what's to come.
 
Joe Average said:
There is no IR receiver on the iPhones - the camera itself is what picks up the signal. Take any digital videocamera you have and start recording, then point any IR remote (TV, satellite, DVD, whatever) at it and push a button on the remote - the videocamera will "see" the IR pulses as flashes of light.

That's what this whole thing centers around, with software in the phone that receives those flashes/pulses and when decoded basically instructs the camera/video app to shut off.

If they can make it, someone will find a way to disable that potential probably just as fast as it's implemented. It's really not a concern at all at this point, just a scare tactic of what's to come.
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Ahh, I didn't even think of them using the camera to see the IR signal. I know that trick well because I use my cell camera to test my remotes in the house when the batteries start to die, heh.

Yeah, even so, anyone that's jail-broken will be able to easily circumvent this, I'm sure. But it's not even close to being approved and implemented, so no reason to worry about it for now. Definitely not a problem for me because I never plan on using an i-Device.
 
With the New World order taking place in the next couple of years, with a one world govt. and single world currency, we will be living in a Police state, and Apple will be doing this. This is after the Great Depression 2 coming soon, and WW III :mad:
 
Bootleggers are gonna bootleg no matter what. I don't know what the big deal is, so what if somebody wants to take some low quality video at a rock concert. People who are willing to pay for top quality concert video won't even bother with some crappy iphone recording. Get over yourself Apple.
 
more than likely being jailbroken with some sort of third party software will be able to easily bypass this right?
 
T4rd said:
Lol, infrared..? All you would have to do is block the IR receiver with a case, piece of tape or your finger. Not sure how this would work well even if it somehow did get implemented.
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It's not quite that simple, the camera itself is likely sensitive to IR. However you can use a small IR filter (such as used in "pen" DPSS lasers - which is just about the perfect size) to effectivly remove the IR so the camera would still function.

Also 10:1 if this is implemented somone within a week will release a fix via cydia that will dissable this "feature"

Furthermore, keep in mind that all sources of light can produce IR. So it would be tricky to use this without dissabeling the camera under mundane situations.
 
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