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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:21PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:21PM (#881787)

    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)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:30PM (#881795) Journal

    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.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:37PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:37PM (#881796)

      Better late than early?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @06:51AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @06:51AM (#882014)

        Better never than late

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @01:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 19 2019, @01:38PM (#882110)

      Mass surveillance of all kinds simply needs to be banned, whether done by corporations or governments.