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Decoy
Decoy - Unauthorized user's information sent to laptop's owner

Inspiration

Theft is a large issue that plagues the economy. In a modernized society where technology is rapidly advancing, laptop theft is prominent now more than ever. Businesses and individuals alike use laptops on a daily basis, thus making them an easy target for criminals. Decoy aims to eliminate this by concealing itself as an everyday browser and fool criminals into revealing their location and face after they have stolen a laptop.

What it does

Decoy runs as soon as the browser is opened. The user then must state "close program" or "stop program" to authorize themselves as the owner of the laptop/computer within 8 seconds. Once 8 seconds has passed, Decoy takes a picture of the unauthorized user via webcam and retrieves the location (IP Address, City, Latitude, Longitude), sending the information to the owner of the laptop/computer via email. Lastly, Decoy will track anything the unauthorized user types and sends this information via email every 100 letters.

How we built it

We utilized Python to build Decoy, incorporating the libraries pynput, webbrowser, speech_recognition, requests, cv2, smtplib, ssl and email.mime.

Challenges we ran into

We had difficulties incorporating the part where an email is sent to the owner of the laptop due to there being an attachment required. We mitigated this issue by importing MIMEMultipart from the email.mime library.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The fact that we were able to come together as a team and finish this project within the span of the hackathon with little prior knowledge is an accomplish we are proud of.

What we learned

We learned that creating a program from scratch is no easy feat and that it takes a large amount of effort to incorporate multiple libraries in order to create a fully functioning program. Furthermore, we also learned that creating a program requires hundreds of test cases to ensure the program does not crash due to unexpected events.

Built With

cv2
pynput
python
requests
smtplib
webbrowser

Submitted to

Hack for the People
- Winner Best Digital Privacy Hack

Created by

I incorporated the library email.mime that was utilized to send information to the user when a unauthorized user triggers Decoy. I worked on the implementation of retrieving the unauthorized user's location and taking a picture of them via webcam.

Jacky Liu
I used the speech_recognition library to implement the part where an authorized user accesses the laptop/computer ensuring that the owner does not trigger a false positive from Decoy.

Anson Wong
Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work
I implemented the part where Decoy tracks the keys typed of the unauthorized user using the pynput library and limited it to 100 characters per email in order to update the owner of their laptop/computer's activities near instantaneously.

Jacky Nguyen

Updates

Jacky Liu started this project — Aug 22, 2020 09:10 PM EDT

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