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    dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 24
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    quick review of what we know so far about the 'smart city' lamp components found inside and claims. The hard evidence looks weaker in the light of morning, though [thread]https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1165293505738170368 …

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    dr. trey @Comparativist
    I try hard to avoid #FakeNews. Some of this stuff is just WYSIWYG: anonymously sourced pics/vids go out via telegram, wind up in public TG channels, then on to Twitter. Both of what I list above seem legit in a 'as confirmed as you'll get' way. No one will out themselves.
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      2. dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 24
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        1. Most serious allegation is unverified. Someone posted screenshots claiming that http://ticktack.tech/loginApp.html  went to a Shanghai Sansi dashboard system. That page is 404 now, as it was Apple Daily by 8pm last night https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20190824/59969266 …pic.twitter.com/GF1AFgSqT0

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        2. Apple Daily tracked TickTack Technologies back to Chinese University of Hong Kong. So it's either a front company for Sansi embedded inside CUHK, or the screenshots are fake.https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20190824/59969266 …

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      4. dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 24
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        3. Most of the components (except the Bluetooth thing, which we'll get to next) are from American companies. But made in China. Like Cisco.pic.twitter.com/gyjo6kJlxU

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      5. dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 24
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        4. A HK gov press release this morning said the "BTE Locator" was a beacon to help give ppl more accurate device locations. @DavidMooreSCMP suggested this last night. There should still be concern about whether it's a 'sniffer' too, though.https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1165307370156613635?s=20 …

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        dr. trey @Comparativist
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        depends on if they're active (beacons) or passive. They seem passive. If passive, they'd scoop up every BT device in 'discoverable mode. You could pair those unique ID's with someone in custody in prove they were in X location, even triangulate their movements.
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        5. Because of surveillance concerns, HK gov "de-activated certain functions on its new smart lampposts" back in July. There's a lot of ambiguity over what the original plan was. @krislc wrote about it here:https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/17/hong-kong-govt-deactivates-functions-new-smart-lampposts-amid-privacy-concerns/ …

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      7. dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 24
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        6. It was not, in fact, "filled with Chinese surveillance tech" and @jack won't let us edit tweets. So this 120 RT tweet has been deleted. Which is a shame because the tear gas chemistry experiment was pretty badass and deserved visibility. #TweetResponsiblypic.twitter.com/r6sDTqtKYH

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        dr. trey Retweeted wildWONG 野黃

        7. @wildwong: regardless of what was found inside it, it's about what this 'smart city' IoT stuff represents and latent capacity. Tear 'em down.https://twitter.com/wildwong/status/1165451938093137920?s=20 …

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        wildWONG 野黃 @wildwong
        You can interpret the fallen lamppost as a symbolic act against Skynet. Whether the vendors are from HK or CN really doesn't matter. I don't think the current "smart posts" embedded anything like that regardless of some lame Bluetooth beacons were found, but it has potential. https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1165441307264708608 …
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        dr. trey Retweeted Wei Du 杜唯

        8. 100% agree with @WeiDuCNA here: like so much else this summer, including the origin of the #ExtradictionBill and whether it's really "dead," these issues fundamentally come down to trust in the HK govt. There's absolutely no trust right now.https://twitter.com/WeiDuCNA/status/1165424536147263488?s=20 …

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        Wei Du 杜唯Verified account @WeiDuCNA
        So many of HK’s problems are not about “what is” but “we don’t trust what you say.” Goes straight to the legitimacy of govt. https://twitter.com/erinhale/status/1165255858353131520 …
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        9. Here's that badass chemistry experiment I highlighted in the deleted tweet. There's long been suspicion that expired CS degrades into hydrogen cyanide. It's hard to tell what's going on here, but the claim is that it's confirmed.https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1165277952646369280?s=20 …

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        Hong Kong Police tear gas triggers Potassium Cyanide monitor machine pic.twitter.com/oG7fUJPt3L
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      11. dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 24
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        10. A lot of the stuff coming out of Telegram is often unverifiable. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). It was a screenshot. Try to make caveats if you share it as I did, which I did last night w/ deleted tweet. But also know when that's not enough.https://twitter.com/Comparativist/status/1165293505738170368?s=20 …

        dr. trey added,

        dr. trey @Comparativist
        I try hard to avoid #FakeNews. Some of this stuff is just WYSIWYG: anonymously sourced pics/vids go out via telegram, wind up in public TG channels, then on to Twitter. Both of what I list above seem legit in a 'as confirmed as you'll get' way. No one will out themselves.
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        11. This framing is just #FakeNews though. Use the right words, though, and you'll get ~45k RT's like this rando /finhttps://twitter.com/Jordan_Sather_/status/1165327628825284610?s=20 …

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        Protestors in Hong Kong are cutting down facial recognition towers. pic.twitter.com/bTvb8uis7V
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      2. David Moore@SCMP‏Verified account @DavidMooreSCMP Aug 25
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        The HK government has put out a release regarding the BLE locator (beacon). They say it is for a "positioning service" for "the public and visitors" that is more precise than GPS. Here is the link https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201908/25/P2019082500198.htm …

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      3. dr. trey‏ @Comparativist Aug 25
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        saw it this morning. I've seen BT listed in Android location security permissions along with WiFi. You called it. Doesn't mean it's not also a sniffer, but everything they found inside seems pretty innocuous.

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