Comments on: Anonymizing clothing

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:54:58 +0000

If you want to mess with a camera just wear stripes. I know from working the video cameras at church that stripes can really mess with a camera. It won’t completely obfuscate you, but it can do some major damage to the quality of the footage.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:30:10 +0000

Covering your body with white cards will *not* fool decent cctv systems, you’ll just look stupid. “If evading cameras is the goal, we feel a far more elegant fix is simply to cover your face with a hood” wow, thank you captain obvious. way to insult hackaday readers’ collective intelligence.

By: PKM

PKM — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:30:57 +0000

I don’t really see the point of the first one, unless the large amount of movement will mess up video compression- on raw video you just look like someone covered in index cards. If it covers your face then obviously your face cannot be seen but there are easier ways to achieve that. The Instructable seems to be more of an art project, a philosophical statement and a commentary on ubiquitous surveillance than an actual “hack”, and I didn’t actually see any unadulterated video of the suit in use.

The retroreflective “cloak” is the only particularly interesting piece of technology, and it’s still utterly useless for stealth purposes because it needs a projector and camera setup at the viewer’s end. I was more interested by the suggestion it be used to give surgeons transparent hands.

I appreciate the greater number of posts recently, but seriously- gas mask hoodies? I love this site for the “quality over quantity” approach, please keep it up.

By: Joatmon

Joatmon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:26:39 +0000

The best way to achieve this is to use ir-leds to saturate the filter, think a hat with them around the edges……

By: crapaday

crapaday — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:46:52 +0000

OMG… it’s… NOT a hack! Yet another lame infomercial on the increasingly inaccurately named “HackADay”.

File it under ‘Misc Hacks’ with the other 659 so called hacks no-one cares about.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:18:15 +0000

This is soooooo lame. The idea is acceptable but who in the heck is going to wear that suit? lol

By: pokey

pokey — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:30:17 +0000

It’s a scramble suit… for video cameras!

By: RT (Panzer Time!)

RT (Panzer Time!) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:09:14 +0000

This reminds me about the textfile about robbing ATMs that I read a long time ago. It mentioned a rumor that wearing an aluminum-foil headband could somehow confuse the security camera. something about the lens coatings or something. anyway I made an aluminum-foil headband right away and wore it to skool every day for a week.