Thank you very much for your comment, it made my day. I have had a hard time getting started with these technologies, especially with everyone talking about these without explaining what they actually are in a basic state, that's why I tried to come up with an article that I wish existed when I started. There is probably a lot of stuff to improve there, but I hope it helps getting started with these topics somehow.
I have one of these. It's neat, but the low frame rate for video makes the clips themselves look choppy and genrallly subpar compared to phone video. The "editorial" choices the camera makes are usually pretty great, though, erring on the side of conservative even at the higher settings.
I guess they're targeting the shareable gfycat style of clip. Silent, looping, eye-catching. I agree I'd prefer better framerate. I'd also prefer a mic. It's a shame that "privacy" may have been a factor in omitting the mic, when it should be a choice for the user.
What's the minimum focus distance? They don't say on their tech specs page.
Click fraud on desktop is obviously much easier than on mobile.
Even on mobile, ideally (for the fraudster) it would be done in an emulator. There are probably tricks that can be done to detect emulators though. I would consider those flaws in the emulator that should be fixed.
I don't think they're primarily doing "click fraud" for ads so much as account creation (for spam), captcha defeats, and social media manipulation.
Maybe that's all click (tap?) fraud though.
Also... I'm not sure how Tapster compares to click farms on pricing. Aces them on legitimacy though. So... I don't think a Fortune 500 company is going to send their in development app over to Russian mobs for final bug testing. So they might be same thing but very very different market segments.
I think the cat and mouse game of finding an emulator aberration vs fixing the emulator aberration is waited toward the finding side. Especially for complex systems like current mobile devices, and when they are often heavily locked down like iOS.
At some point the effort to develop a good enough emulator is more expensive than just buying the physical devices.
But another option beyond emulator vs physical devices is physical devices with physical tapping (Tapster) vs physical devices with emulated tapping. That last option seems to be what is used in your video. It might be too expensive to build an emulator, but it is cheaper to (jailbreak? and) emulate touch inputs than to pay a person or a robot to put in real touch inputs.
If I may, there is a "niche", but most probably economically valid market in professional digital forensics and/or data recovery.
The first (obvious) use is tapping access codes or swiping patterns to unlock a device (when/if the number of attempts is resettable [1]).
The second is to document contents, on some phones (unlocked but for which there is no available imaging/copying solution or for specific apps for which there is no external reader), the current procedure is (say a communication app) to manually have a message on the screen, take a photo of it, swipe to the next one, take another photo, etc.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. One thing I tried to do is not just document what I did, but also my intentions when I did it. That's one thing I learned from the Dolphin project.
I dont get number 2. There's already a police officer where the camera is, they themselves are surveillance. Id much prefer the camera. Especially if I did something wrong so it can be seen exactly what I did instead of the report being blown out of proportion to ensure the charges stick.
Right, but what about all the times that crimes aren't being committed? In Illinois, the law is that the cameras must be able to record 10 hours and must be on when not in the car or the officer is talking with a victim, witness or confidential informant and those individuals request the camera be turned off [0]. That means that whenever the office enters a private area, where one expects a reasonable amount of privacy, that privacy is gone as long as the officer if following the rules. There are, of course, private places that one would not expect privacy such as any business that states they are recording video.
There exists no computer in the world that can combine the memory of hundred of thousands of police officers together. With video footage, that's not necessarily true.
I was curious about it, so I looked at the underlying data and fixed the numbers on the wikipedia page based on the latest UN data available. Based on that, the number of police per capita is actually considerably lower.
