I heard that certain laser pointers of a specific wavelength can cook most cameras.

I used to run forensic network capture and analysis tools.

First thing, traffic is encrypted. All you will see is a blob of traffic passing through. You used to see hostnames with TLS, but now with quic, you see nothing. This makes it hard.

You could root the phone and install a root ca certificate for a decrypting proxy, you might see more, but the data itself (not just the transport protocol) could be encoded or even encrypted within the network encapsulation.

Next, you’d have to reverse engineer the protocol if they’re using something nonstandard. Also, malware can often be set up to “behave” when it can detect analysis. I’m all but certain Google would do this.

Maybe you could do statistical analysis of the traffic and attempt to baseline normal vs when it’s transmitting audio. It would be a bit of a blind guess at best.

If I had more time, I’d love to try it. I have an old pixel7 pro. Maybe I can sort something out.

I will happily send them all the farts they want.

I also work in security.

My company (which can damn well afford the costs) 100% REFUSES to leverage AI in any meaningful fashion. The CISO himself wrote the most braindead email to the CIO saying basically that AI isn’t a threat and then showed it to the rest of us like he’s proud of it.

I tried to push some adoption of AI based tools to help detect our own weaknesses and do some basic cleanup work. Nope. Stonewalled. I argued that every attacker is stealing accounts and burning tokens to tear us to shreds using every possible tools they can steal or even buy. We use Copilot.

Blank stares and crickets. We just keep managing our shit in spreadsheets that some dumbass emails as attachments and wonders why everyone has a different version of some useless thing.

At least they’re paying me well. When they collapse in a little while, I suppose I won’t be too surprised.

There is a big push for pro China propaganda I keep noticing.

Be smart people, it hasn’t changed from the china you knew five years ago. Same dude still running it.