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Garments from Adversarial Fashion feed junk data into surveillance cameras, in an effort to make their databases less effective.
The news: Hacker and designer Kate Rose unveiled the new range of clothing at the DefCon cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. In a talk, she explained the that hoodies, shirts, dresses, and skirts trigger automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to inject useless data into systems used to track civilians.
False tags: The license-plate-like designs on a garment are picked up and recorded as vehicles by readers, which frequently misclassify images like fences as license plates anyway, according to Rose (pictured above modeling one of her dresses). The idea is that feeding more junk data into the systems will make them less effective at tracking people and more expensive to deploy.
[...] Fashion fights back: Though it's the first to target ALPRs, this isn't the first fashion project aimed at fighting back against surveillance. Researchers have come up with adversarial images on clothing aimed at bamboozling AI, makeup that lets you hide your face from recognition systems, and even a hat that can trick systems into thinking you're Moby.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:09PM (11 children)
Why not have a T-Shirt with a fake face on it so that the face recognition software can pick up on the fake face which will put more junk into the system. We can use that fake face generator website or whatever to generate fake faces and print them on t-shirts. Then the automated system will think everyone is two-faced. Or if you cover up your real face it may think the printed face is your face.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:15PM (5 children)
More advanced face recog tech uses an invisible IR grid projector to determine 3D features of the face or of the whole body, 2D pictures will be of no use as a mimicry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:21PM (4 children)
Sure but the whole point is to increase the cost of getting it right. It will force those using these systems to get the 'more advanced' ones and pay more.
Also the body has curvature as well. Sure you and I may know the difference but if the computer can't tell the difference between a fence and a license plate then it probably can't tell the difference here either.
I wonder if the computer thinks the license plate number of the fence is IIIII. On the flip side if my license plate number was IIII maybe the reader will think it's a fence.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:30PM (3 children)
Disney Granted Patent in Foot Recognition [soylentnews.org]
China Can Apparently Now Identify Citizens Based on the Way they Walk [soylentnews.org]
Identifying Perceived Emotions From People's Walking Style [soylentnews.org]
Just delaying the inevitable. You are full of leaky data ready to be edge computed until the kill/capture order is sent.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:37PM (1 child)
Better late than early?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @06:51AM
Better never than late
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @01:38PM
Mass surveillance of all kinds simply needs to be banned, whether done by corporations or governments.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:16PM (3 children)
Will this T-shirt do?
https://www.thechestore.com/products/che-guevara-long-sleeve-t-shirt-sleeve-star?variant=41605235724 [thechestore.com]
Or this one with ID,
https://www.amazon.com/Elvis-Presley-Shirt-Exclusive-Stickers/dp/B076ZWHDY7 [amazon.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:28PM (1 child)
Fidel’s Legacy to the World on Theory and Practice [blackagendareport.com]
Che Guevara: 50 years after his death [socialist.net] (IMT)
50 years since the murder of Che Guevara [wsws.org] (ICFI)
Che Guevara: Introduction [socialistalternative.org] (CWI)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday August 19 2019, @03:24AM
Is it that you envision yourself in charge, or do you too enjoy shooting kids in the back of the head?
http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=55 [therealcuba.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by Acabatag on Monday August 19 2019, @12:53AM
There's a whole storefront for Che t-shirts?
How do they find enough college freshmen buyers to keep them in business??
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:53PM
How about one that makes you invisible to AI? [theverge.com]
(won't last long, but anyway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford