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Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

New method detects hidden long-range spy cameras, aiding privacy protection.

Steady
Signal score
22
as of 1d ago
Trajectory
⏳ Too early
needs a few more snapshots

Why this scored 22

every term, weighted
Velocity+4.4 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+13.0 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+0.0 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+7.9 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty−3.2 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite22.1

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Signal history

7-day window (free)
1954

Entities

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