This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/
Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains
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moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 10 pts · 29d
While I love this idea, I'm not sure that covering your car with the word "Donut" will keep the cops away
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 6 pts · 29d
So… all I have to do to ensure my right to privacy is spend several hundred dollars and make my car ugly as sin.
Please pardon my lack of enthusiasm.
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 29d
Dont forget extremely recognizable
lyrial@anarchist.nexus · 2 pts · 28d
Reminds me of the guy that had "NULL" on a vanity plate that broke some systems. It didn't end too well iirc.
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 28d
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/
It didn't end well because their system was bad, not because he did anything particularly wrong. CA fucked up and gave him every ticket where a cop had typed in NULL while simultaneously allowing him to use NULL as a license plate number. I honestly think he should sue.
It broke the website when he tried to renew. He ended up using a reference number to renew instead and that means (so far as I can tell) someone somewhere on the DMV knew this was a problem and tried to fix it. The only problem is they didn't fix it and didn't notify him that his plate was no longer allowed. He should have received a letter about it.
Every cop who didn't fill in the license plate number for a ticket should be on the hook too.
MrWrinkles@leminal.space · 5 pts · 29d
Welcome to modern warfare 🫡