Submitted 7 months ago by Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de to technology@lemmy.world
If you live in the United States, it’s very likely that a private startup has been logging and sharing your vehicle’s location without your consent. In this …
TLDR apply spots or “noise” to your plates. Put some duct tape or something on it to confuse the idiot that is modern AI.
In many states, you’re technically not able to alter the license plate or put stickers on it. But cameras don’t know how big things are supposed to be. So put a frame around your license plate with all sorts of crazy.
A little dirt mixed into a clear paint. To a cop, it just looks like a dirty licence plate. To AI powered cameras it looks like T̶̗̈ℲM-ԀC̴̦͝)0
In some states an obscured/unreadable license plate is all a cop needs to pull you over…
Commenting just so I’ll come back. Fuck every surveillance state. Hard. Repeatedly. The people need to say fuck off but too many fucking bootlickers out there, both left and right.
too many fucking bootlickers
I think there are also just a lot of exhausted people that just don’t have the time, energy, or direction to know what to do about it.
I’m a regular ass taxpayer trying to feed my family. I do what I can to protect privacy. I use a VPN, self host whatever I can, shit like that. I can’t stop driving to work so I can avoid cameras.
Anyone know of the website that tracks where these cameras are located?
Thank you!
Great video and very illuminating about corporatised data surveillance. I wonder how these practices would fly in European or UK data environments. Big cities certainly have extensive CCTV coverage both law enforcement based and private but I’m not sure you could be selling personally identifying data like that.
He rightfully points out in the video that even if the data isn’t sold, it could still be leaked and then proceeds to show how insecure the camera systems are. This kind of surveillance infrastructure just shouldn’t exist to begin with.
I would be curious if there have been any pen testing against the police and municipal camera networks in the UK. I wonder how many of the vulnerabilities of the system in the video come from trying to use WiFi to save on costs of hardwired setups.
We’ve had them for a long time. In the London the “ring of steel” was installed as a result of the IRAs mainland bombing campaign in the 80s and of course has expanded as the various congestion and clean air zones have been rolled out. I doubt it would be politically possible to remove them now. While potential leaks are an issue at least public sector organisations have some degree of accountability for the cock ups.
Yet another great video from Benn… however, I’m a bit disappointed that he isn’t more explicit about how to protect your plates from these readers. I understand that he’s likely doing it to protect himself (and his viewers) from legal recourse, and it’s nice that he provides the code used to create and test the patterns, but I wish he had provided his research results to show which patterns were most effective at keeping the system from even detecting the presence of a plate.
Well, we’re all reasonably intelligent people. Let’s collectively brainstorm!
It looks like masking with a random pattern made to look like dirt or debris is an option.
To negate night reads, how about 2-4 layers of optical polarizing film, each transverse to the previous plane of polarization? Alternately, a coating with a visible light transparent, IR opaque pigment.
Could even literally make it mud, if you have access to a laser cutter (hacker space, etc) you could use that and make a stencil instead, then mix up some mud in a bucket (a little clay content goes a long way) and smear that over the stencil and tada – legitimately just some mud on my plate officer.
IR strobes on opposite sides of your plate works too
Woah, this guy is great. I wish it were possible for me to do something like this full time, but I lack the wide skills he’s got. I wonder how long it takes to get to that level? And I wonder if there’s any organizations that might sort of scratch this itch? Been fantasizing about working for the IFF or something like that.
Really really love how he ends the video by insulting and criticizing the companies that asked him to sponsor them. Insane power move
He IS great. I saw him play at a festival a decade ago and all the equipment they provided failed. He just improvised a set, with lots of vocoder, and it was one of the best sets I’ve ever seen. (He’s The Flashbulb, if you haven’t heard him!)
Yooooooo what he’s the Flashbulb!? Crazy lol. I’ve loved his music for years now. Did not at all realize it was the same guy. Taste goes with taste I suppose
I feel like bright UV LEDs would blind digital cameras too.
I've seen hats / hoodies with bright LEDs in non-visible frequencies for blocking facial recognition.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/camera-shy-hoodie-privacy/
Here's a link: https://odditymall.com/justice-caps-hide-your-face-from-surveillance-cameras
I think these are great. Wish they weren’t marketing it for people that want to do “sketchy shit”. I don’t want to do that at all, but I also don’t want to be constantly tracked and identified everywhere I go.
TehBamski@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Here is the video’s thumbnail.
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I use an Extension called vidIQ to find and use the video thumbnail easily. The current thumbnail will be shown just below the video view count.
dabster291@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
wait how is this relevant to the OP?
TehBamski@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It relates to the video that OP shared here. It’s the thumbnail of the video.
I’d like to see more videos posted with their thumbnails on Lemmy. So I periodically comment on videos that don’t have them yet.