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Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face
The Atlantic ^ | 7-24-14 | Robinson Meyer

Posted on 07/27/2014 9:37:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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To: Mycroft Holmes

A ball cap with a row of IR LEDs would be great!, It wouldn’t draw attention and the batteries could be easily hidden.


21 posted on 07/27/2014 10:42:10 AM PDT by Boiling point (Socialism; Ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: Jewbacca

What timing. I was typing the idea as you posted the actual product!


22 posted on 07/27/2014 10:44:08 AM PDT by Boiling point (Socialism; Ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: Boiling point; Jewbacca
Very nice:


23 posted on 07/27/2014 10:50:05 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: cripplecreek

If authorities were really interested in a person all they would need to do is use standard photoshop software to edit the “dazzle” out of the image and then run the picture.


24 posted on 07/27/2014 10:50:49 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: blam

Too many straight lines on that ship. Other than the horizon, some trees and the fracture planes of some sedimentary rocks, straight line are rare in nature.


25 posted on 07/27/2014 10:52:10 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Boiling point; Jewbacca

Dang! That photo is clearly a photoshop job and not the actual effects of the device. If it were, the blob would center on the brim of the cap.


26 posted on 07/27/2014 10:59:23 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (The fool is always greater than the proof.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Show me science that says this BS is correct.....just one will do


27 posted on 07/27/2014 11:14:25 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama stands for the corruption of America in all aspects.)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

No need for the glasses, as who is looking at her face anyway.


28 posted on 07/27/2014 11:22:39 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Summary; When it works against the computer algorithm it makes you very obvious to the people around you.

Choose your poison; stand out in a crowd and be unrecognized by the digital survaillors, or risk NSA tracking recognition and pass unmarked and unnoticed among the teeming mass of mankind!

(You will not be noticed wearing the camouflage, of course, if you are at the circus or Comicon, or I suppose, at any gay pride parade!)


29 posted on 07/27/2014 11:27:54 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: afraidfortherepublic

M4L


30 posted on 07/27/2014 11:31:51 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Does this mean we can run red stop light enforcement cameras with impunity now, wearing this camouflage.

The facial camo shown is a nice start, but really the camp below is far more effective.


31 posted on 07/27/2014 11:53:48 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Nothing new.


32 posted on 07/27/2014 11:57:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Long hair, half in the face works.


33 posted on 07/27/2014 12:11:15 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

There is a video at the link, as well as several reviews by other people. It looks like that.


34 posted on 07/27/2014 12:12:28 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

actually, human skin registers high in reds and makes it easy to spot.

once spotted, processing the face to determine the identity of the target is the next step. removing color and processing for major features, eyes, nose, jaw line, ears, all in relative position ... this narrows down the set of potential identities.


35 posted on 07/27/2014 1:12:07 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

you also draw immediate attention to yourself as a moving white spot

at which point, the video will be flagged and sent to the assigned agent for that shift


36 posted on 07/27/2014 1:15:47 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: davius

You need a “hoodie”.


37 posted on 07/27/2014 3:49:51 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I’d try an eyepatch first, or an eyepatch with a snake’s eye on it.


38 posted on 07/27/2014 8:47:17 PM PDT by jiggyboy
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To: blam

You posted a black and white photo of the sea and clouds?


39 posted on 07/28/2014 3:31:38 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

“Most of the solid state cameras have their sensitivity peak in the IR.”

Every spectrum response graph I have seen on a digital camera has their peak below IR.


40 posted on 07/28/2014 3:41:50 PM PDT by TexasGator
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