ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You
ZuckOff：一款能在 Meta 眼镜发现你之前先发现它们的免费应用
The free mobile app ZuckOff, built by 30-year-old Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski, uses a Bluetooth detection system to tell you whether there is a pair of smart glasses in the room with you. 由 30 岁的波兰开发者 Pawel Szydlowski 开发的免费移动应用 ZuckOff，利用蓝牙检测系统来告知你所在的房间内是否有智能眼镜。
Since its launch in August, the app has reportedly been downloaded by more than 5,000 people on Apple’s App Store. As of writing, it has been downloaded 1,000 times on the Google Play Store. 据报道，自 8 月发布以来，该应用在苹果 App Store 上的下载量已超过 5,000 次。截至撰稿时，它在 Google Play 商店的下载量也已达到 1,000 次。
Meta’s smart glasses have endured a hefty share of scrutiny over the past few months. Unsolicited filming is a growing public safety concern, with people even wearing them to film their dates. Venues like schools and cinemas are increasingly banning their usage outright. 过去几个月里，Meta 的智能眼镜承受了大量的审查。未经许可的拍摄正成为日益严重的公共安全问题，甚至有人戴着它们去拍摄约会对象。学校和电影院等场所正越来越多地直接禁止使用此类设备。
Szydlowski recorded the Bluetooth signals broadcast by various models of smart glasses, building a digital fingerprint for each of them. He bought the hardware to compile the data that flags when a unique identifier matches up with a manufacturer identifier, catching models like Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Snap Spectacles in the vicinity. Szydlowski 记录了各种型号智能眼镜广播的蓝牙信号，并为每种型号建立了数字指纹。他购买了相关硬件来汇总数据，当唯一标识符与制造商标识符匹配时，系统就会发出警报，从而捕捉到附近的 Ray-Ban Meta、Oakley Meta 和 Snap Spectacles 等型号。
A BBC investigation in January traced dozens of accounts that posted content of women who were filmed in public by Meta glasses without their consent. One video posted a 21-year-old woman’s face and phone number and amassed over 1.3 million views. BBC 在 1 月份的一项调查追踪了数十个账号，这些账号发布了女性在公共场合被 Meta 眼镜未经同意拍摄的内容。其中一段视频曝光了一名 21 岁女性的脸部和电话号码，获得了超过 130 万次的观看量。
The recording indicator lights on these glasses have proven fairly easy to defeat with simple hardware hacks, allowing a growing number of wearers to record without being detected. Roughly 7 million pairs of Meta’s smart glasses were sold in 2025. 事实证明，这些眼镜上的录制指示灯很容易通过简单的硬件破解手段失效，这使得越来越多的佩戴者可以在不被发现的情况下进行录制。2025 年，Meta 智能眼镜的销量约为 700 万副。
In July, Meta announced that it would push an update to detect when an LED has been “physically tampered with or destroyed” and stop people from being able to film using those cameras. In an Instagram video, Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth stated that the company designed this camera to be noticed by the people around you. This is despite the fact that one of the product’s key commercial propositions is that the camera doesn’t look like a camera. 7 月，Meta 宣布将推送一项更新，以检测 LED 灯是否被“物理篡改或破坏”，并阻止人们使用这些摄像头进行拍摄。Meta 首席技术官 Andrew Bosworth 在一段 Instagram 视频中表示，公司设计这款摄像头的初衷就是为了让周围的人注意到它。尽管该产品的一个核心商业主张恰恰是——它的摄像头看起来不像摄像头。
ZuckOff is not, however, able to tell you whether a pair of glasses nearby is recording, nor can it tell you who is wearing them. It reads signal strength to give you rough proximity information, which turns an invisible problem into a partially visible one, which at the very least is worth something until legislators take protective action; California and other territories have taken steps to make disabling the recording light or recording people without their consent a crime. 然而，ZuckOff 无法告诉你附近的眼镜是否正在录制，也无法告诉你是谁在佩戴它们。它通过读取信号强度来提供大致的距离信息，将一个隐形的问题变成了一个部分可见的问题。在立法者采取保护措施之前，这至少是有价值的；加利福尼亚州和其他地区已经采取措施，将禁用录制指示灯或未经他人同意进行拍摄定为犯罪行为。
The app is also a pretty difficult thing for Meta to legally take down, since it isn’t interfering with the signals being sent by the glasses. Its basic scanning feature is free in the app, but there is also a ZuckOff Pro version available to purchase for $25. It adds features like history logging, the ability to export the data as a CSV file, a homescreen widget, and continuous background monitoring that can scan for glasses and send alerts even with the screen off. 对于 Meta 来说，在法律上封杀这款应用也非常困难，因为它并没有干扰眼镜发出的信号。该应用的基础扫描功能是免费的，但也有售价 25 美元的 ZuckOff Pro 版本。它增加了历史记录、将数据导出为 CSV 文件、主屏幕小部件以及持续后台监控等功能，即使在屏幕关闭的情况下也能扫描眼镜并发送警报。
This story originally appeared in WIRED Middle East. 本文最初发表于《连线》中东版。