Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face

The Atlantic ^ | 7-24-14 | Robinson Meyer

[afraidfortherepublic]

CV Dazzle is an art!

[bgill]

Guess I can mark the Smithsonian off the bucket list.

[cripplecreek]

Sounds like a great way of standing out like a sore thumb and I suspect it doesn’t work nearly as well as this guy thinks it does. Some facial recognition software is pretty sophisticated.

[blam]

Camoflauged Ships

[mountainlion]

It is a long article but this is the first attempt I have seen. If the camera was infrared it could be easier to fool with out looking so odd. A hologram could be designed to mess with the focus of cameras. Lots of things. No cameras in my woods though, darn.

[davius]

It would be easer to just wear a balaclava. No one would notice that.

[Yo-Yo]

Why would you wear Greek pastry? Oh...

[MV=PY]

It seems to me that one would have to make many assumptions about the face recognition algorithms to think this would work.

And there must be a variety of algorithms in various systems. The software business it pretty competitive.

I don’t buy it.

[ErnBatavia]

Yep...that'd work.

[poinq]

I was looking at GWU with my son And we had extra time. So, we walked around the White House (just a few blocks away). We were pointing and talking and looking at the security.

Around the Treasury building a guy nudged me. I didn’t look up. He hit me lightly and yelled “Hey”. I looked up and there was a guy with a built up hat. And he pressed the side of it and walked on quickly.

While I can’t be sure. I am almost sure that he has the job of taking pictures of faces that spend too much time looking at the White House. He snaps a picture of the face and moves on maybe listing to the earpiece he had for instructions on who to snap. So my face is sitting in a NSA database somewhere.

They don’t have a name to go with it. But if I show up again somewhere they may try to get that as well. For now, they just seemed to want my face to match against other faces.

The NSA straddles the line of being worrisome. For me, I think they have crossed it over and over again. But they seem to stay close to it.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Most of the solid state cameras have their sensitivity peak in the IR. This is usually considered a feature since the addition of an IR source makes it work quite well in the dark. A necklace with super-bright LEDs in the IR ought to pretty much saturate any real world camera you are likely to encounter. Much less obvious as well.

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[hal ogen]

They are there...just well-hidden or camouflaged. It is futile to resist.

[cripplecreek]

[mountainlion]

NSA North Socialists America?

[Flick Lives]

LOL! The honey in the pastry helps it to stick.

[GOPJ]

A necklace with super-bright LEDs in the IR ...

Can you flesh that out a little ... I don't understand...

[miele man]

Judging by the dry and parched skin on the author’s lips in the huge first picture, I’d say the guy needs to start drinking water. He looks dehydrated. Wearing pink wires in his ears (ear buds) and an odd paint on his cheeks sure made him stand out to everyone but the computer camera.

[Mycroft Holmes]

It would be like shining a bright flashlight directly at the camera, but since it is in the infra-red it wouldn’t be visible to human eyes while at the same time blinding the camera.

[Jewbacca]

LED caps work at night and inside by blinding cameras.

A large pair of sunglasses also works.

Wearing a shirt with someone else's face works, too.

[Jewbacca]

http://www.justicecaps.com/

Only works inside/at night.