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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the GIGO dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:22PM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:22PM (#881823) Journal
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @06:38PM (#881828)

    You may not know it but they usually just corral you. They will catch if they can. But usually they are just trying to make sure you do not splatter anyone else. Then when you eventually hurt yourself they have a new organ donor. Then some paperwork. Then go have a coffee and talk about what a lunatic you are with their buds.