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The Fulgurator: Inserting spam into your photos

Jun 28, 2008 10:28

There's junk mail, email spam, Web spam, and now, there's a way for spammers to insert spam into the photos you take during your holidays. Take a look at the Fulgurator here.

The Fulgurator is a device which detects the flash from your camera, and then uses its own flash to project an image on the object you're capturing, resulting in spam on your photos. Like this one, where the words are projected onto a black laptop bag:

Now, imagine adverts projected on the Taj Mahal, Stonehenge, the Empire State Building, and you get the drift.

Considering the lengths people go to in order to pump spam into your email box, this will almost be a certainty once a low-cost prototype comes into production. It'll probably mean extra costs for caretakers of tourist sites to cater for electronics scanners to seek and destroy these pesky devices.

Well, welcome to the Max Headroom world. The true 21st century is unfolding a decade late.

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ferdiei says...
some advertisers often take greater lengths to promote their business, but personal/public "intrusion" warrants a criminal offense, i hope that thru legislation governments include actions like this to be penalised. take the explosion of 'youtube' and camera-enabled gadgets, plus the miniaturization of devices, which literally gives ordinary people the access to anybody's part of their life/personal stuff

Jun 28, 2008 12:43

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Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son… You can reach Michael at michaeltanyk@gmail.com ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.