Similar approaches for license plate concealment aren't working out. Newer systems flag vehicles without plates for additional attention. Some recognize make, model, color, accessories, etc.[1][2]<p>[1] <a href="https://platerecognizer.com/alpr-for-vehicles-without-license-plates/" rel="nofollow">https://platerecognizer.com/alpr-for-vehicles-without-licens...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/soft/20211008/DHI-ITC415-PW6M-IZ-BH_Datasheet_20210625.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/soft/2021...</a>
So I guess the world is going to turn into a Renaissance Venice, but with masks made out of retro reflector makeup and IR LED wearbles instead of papier mache and mystery.
This is really cool, but in countries with utterly pervasive surveillance (e.g. Taiwan), this wouldn't really stop someone with access to all the cameras (i.e., the government) from tracking down who you are. They'd just hop camera to camera (they're literally EVERYWHERE) until you used your train card, or got onto a vehicle you own, or walk into your house.<p>What I'd be really interested in is an anti-surveillance device that utterly dazzles cameras so as to make it impossible to track camera to camera who you are / where you're going. Combine that with the occasional costume change and you've become extremely difficult to track.
Related to the current top story:<p>The Camera-Shy Hoodie - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34958153" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34958153</a>
I don't know - kinda seems unwise to blast yourself with IR. You may not feel it immediately but I would certainly not rule out any long-ish term healt consequences.
back when videoing theater screens for making bootlegs was rampant, we used to talk about installing IR LEDS in the projection screens to ruin the image of the camera's recording. nobody felt the expense was worth it, and the trend became obsolete when ripping blu-ray quality sources became easy
I wonder if there’s a shoe insert one could make that would poison gait analysis. Something in your shoe that gives you a different limp every so often. Lift your heal a little or put a lump under the ball of your foot.
Here's a similar product in production:<p><a href="https://www.reflectacles.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reflectacles.com/</a>
isn't this very similar to the, quite venerable, <a href="https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/" rel="nofollow">https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/</a> ?
This is already obsolete.
Stupid, because it gives people a false sense of how this stuff actually works in the real world. Anti-knowledge if you will.<p>We sadly live in an age where we must be careful what we put out there.