@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Post #4488457
2026-08-10 11:29 UTC
Bill Swearingen spent the past year developing a pattern that can defeat being detected by surveillance cameras, including vehicles and people. At Def Con, for the first time, he demoed the pattern printed on a car against a Flock camera to prove it works. (One of my favorite talks from Def Con this year!)
More by me at TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/
Ad-blocker bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260810033558/https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-adversarial-pattern-can-prevent-surveillance-cameras-from-detecting-you/
Replies (3)
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@gclef@social.vivaldi.net 2026-08-10 12:14
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Reminds me of the Lakota Sioux "ghost shirts"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_shirt
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@Seedymofo@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 11:50
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social Disable my adblocker? Thanks but I’ll just read the story elsewhere.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange 2026-08-10 12:55
@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social https://xkcd.com/1105/