Hacking Big Brother With Help From Revlon 71
skids writes "All those futuristic full-face eyeliner jobs in dystopian cyberpunk fiction might not be that far off the mark. A New York University student spent his thesis time exploring computer vision technology (OpenCV) for ways in which one could confound first-stage algorithms that initially lock onto faces. Then he mixed in a bit of fashion sense to predict future geek chic. Now, whether you want to go for the coal-miner look just to stay out of the data mine, that's up to you."
"Coal-miner look"? (Score:2, Interesting)
A pirate patch? (Score:5, Funny)
Seems to me an aeasthetic patch covering one eye could work just as well - if not better. Plus it's relativelly less conspicuous (especially for a man)...and you might always need some medical procedure requiring later covering of one eye, right?
PS. Harrrr!
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Offtopic reply.... (Score:1, Offtopic)
*continuing offtopic* :-)
Thanks for that link!
I think I have found my retirement plan.
Idaho? Well, that's okay, since I like potatoes.
My original plan was:
1. grow up (I was 8-10 years old)
2. ??*get assloads of money*???
3. buy Montana, and move into the middle of it.
Oh yeah, since this is /. ...
4. PROFIT!!!!!
*end offtopic reply*
Wow! Dugout Dick's face is truly one that 'only a mother could love', but his spirit I find purely beautiful.
'Long live the spirit of Dugout Dick!!!'
Again, thanks!...I had no idea...
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Even better: One-eyed sunglasses! You can still look trough. And I could imagine that becoming a fashion.
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My first thought was that Pris wasn't just trying to look good for Sebastian, she was trying to avoid detection.
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Together with the summary (mentioning "coal-miner look") - an interesting throwback to the era of socrealism in my post Soviet Block place; fixed by Moscow also on coal, where every respectable miner should do at least 200% of the norm.
Re:really? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Moving spots of high contrast (reflections off light skin against the dark makeup) would be even easier to detect though.
This just breaks one algorithm currently in use. If it actually became "geek chic" then they'd change the algorithm.
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And then geek chic would adapt.
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Re:really? (Score:5, Interesting)
In fact, it's incredibly easy to swap the nIR blocking filter in a cheap camera for an IR-pass/optically opaque filter. Leaving invisible notes for people could be pretty fun.
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So in other words, to avoid detection everyone should wear a Rorschach mask?
Hack the Gibson (Score:2)
So this stuff I've been wearing serves a purpose? Cool!
Re:Hack the Gibson (Score:5, Insightful)
Reverse Engineering? (Score:5, Funny)
Harvey's research involves the reverse engineering of OpenCV, which its creators describe as an open-source "library of programming functions for real-time computer vision."
Oh the reg whatever shall we do with you...
Re: Reverse Engineering? (Score:2)
Sounds like a marketdroid's take at just saying: "He pulled off the truly amazing feat of downloading and looking at someone else's unobfuscated, well-documented open source code." ;-)
The sad thing (not least for the graduate himself) is that there was l
Coal-miner look against Data-mining (Score:1)
Well, if you leverage the Synergy of.... (Score:2)
GHAAAHH!!!!
I can't keep a straight face or my sanity with that line.
Okay n00b[1], here's how it works:
1. There will soon be an 'App for that'
2. Some start-up will sell you a virtual coal mine.
3. It will be incorporated into Google Earth/Maps.
4. ???????
5. Profit!!!!
[1] You must be new here!
God of War and Privacy (Score:5, Funny)
Weird Title (Score:5, Insightful)
Even when they could be honest, accurate, and interesting the Slashdot editors simply don't bother. Why?
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Now, I didn't RTFA or RTFS, but I did RTFH, and I'm pretty sure this story is about using lipstick to write an SQL injection attack directly across your face. I mean, duh.
Why don't you try to RTFH sometime?
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Even when they could be honest, accurate, and interesting the Slashdot editors simply don't bother. Why?
I think the fault lies with TFA and its liberal usage of the word hacking. To be fair, I don't think it's the Soulskill's responsibility to rewrite the article in a more accurate manner, but a case could be made that such an article should never have been posted in the first place.
nobody owns words (Score:1, Flamebait)
and words shift in meaning all the time. the way they spoke in 1960, 1910, 1860... the meanings of words you use today as they were in 1960, 1910, 1860... its completely fluid and outside of anyone's control
so why do you fucking care so much about a fucking word?
"hacking" has evolved to have different meanings. big fucking deal
for whatever bizarre reason, you have a huge attachment to the meaning of "hacking"
whatever, drama queen. get a life
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so why do you fucking care so much about a fucking word? "hacking" has evolved to have different meanings. big fucking deal
Ok, number one, mellow out. Why you're legitimately angry over my response is beyond me. Number two, words may change, but this use of the word 'hacking' is way, way outside even the most peripheral usage of the word today. Words, however they change or whatever word you select, still have to *communicate* with the people to whom you are speaking, and this word was badly chosen enough to nearly fail at communication. I don't care what word he chooses so long as it actually says something accurate *to me* a
no, you're not a grammar nazi (Score:1, Flamebait)
you suffer from asperger syndrome. you have clear social defects
no one cares, and you can't control the meaning of words
deal with it
i could try to be a bigger hypocrite (Score:1)
but i don't know how to be a bigger flammer. i don't know what a flammer is
????WTF?????..... (Score:3, Insightful)
This is the essence of true 'hacking'.
It's not all about 'computers' on 'the internets'.
He is definitely 'hacking' the facial recognition system to give interested parties the ability to avoid/negate it.
Ascribe to the Newspeak, imbibe that Koolaide, let the popular Media 'teach' you, and keep you informed...
Oh yeah,...GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU PUNKS!!!!
Future geek chic ... this chick has it right ... (Score:3, Interesting)
From our "How to look non-conspicuous department": http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/paint-992000a.jpg [globalsecurity.org]
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I think the word is "inconspicuous".
how not to be seen (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1163919/monty_pythons_flying_circus_how_not_to_be_seen/ [metacafe.com]
Just wear a mask (Score:5, Interesting)
Whats the point of bypassing facial recognition if you've still been recorded in a manner that could identify you? It would help abate real-time face-triggered alerts, but not much else.
If people start doing this, I predict it would only be a matter of time before the police would categorize anyone with a painted face as a possible terrorist threat, such as how the ski mask is considered now.
Re:Just wear a mask (Score:5, Insightful)
The police, and policy in general, are simple:
1. Ignore something.
2. If there's a crime associated with it, stop ignoring it, and start treating it as the crime.
3. Ignore something else.
And so on.
Emo hair (Score:2)
Cover half your face with hair and I bet the facial recognition will miss you.
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Whatever happened to just wearing a ski mask when committing a "crime"? I'm not sure I'd feel less silly painting my face than simply putting on a mask.
Not just any mask... [boingboing.net]
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You're missing the point of his thesis - he's trying to make face detection evasion fashionable, so it's a lot more subtle than wearing a mask.
The idea is more like hipster makeup that would not tip off the police that anything was wrong.
Just so people are aware, this particular Masters program at NYU is part of the art school.
Has Geek chic ever changed? (Score:1)
Isn't geek-chic the same as always by definition? i.e. pizza/sweat stained cartoon/computer/who farted t-shirt with optional neck beard. Is that so hard?
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My shirt has Vietnamese food stains, and I am not sporting a neckbeard. I just haven't had time to shave in the last few days.
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My shirt has Vietnamese food stains.....
Well, if it includes nouc mam [wikipedia.org] , it may work...the sensors could be overloaded.
Damn!! (Score:2)
If this [regmedia.co.uk] is what future geeks are going to look like, I'ms sure as hell staying in the industry!
Hollywood Masquerade (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, I am just a guy asking questions. What were we talking about again?
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Hilarious robberies? Wouldn't streaking in Nixon mask be enough for you?
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Right, the GP was no doubt a racist ignorant teabagger, right? Not as enlightened and tolerant as YOU, correct?
After all, any dissent should be stomped out FAST and HARD, in order to keep freedom and democracy alive. Truth through obedience, brother!
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In that case, there is a very good possibility it's actually her.
This passes for thesis research these days? (Score:3, Insightful)
When hiring I hardly give that $100,000 education any weight at all, unless they have on the job experience they've applied it to, and their references can back that up.
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Oh yea. By far. I've seen much worse.
Not sure what you mean by 'that $100,000 education', but if you are refering to fees that students pay, this is not always the case- some pretty awesome Universities/institutes out of the US of A (yes, there IS life out of 'merickuh) have no fees at all. And some will actually compensate you for being a student.
Now, some of them (usually 'low caliber' ones) will push their students for publication of papers, just so that some lazy-ass supervisor will be able to publish h
What about thermal imaging? (Score:2)
This is a clever trick, but I'm not sure if it would defeat a system that utilized thermal imaging [equinoxsensors.com]. Presumably your face would look (pretty much) the same to an LWIR camera regardless of your make-up.
We could all cover our faces with mud the same way Dutch did when he was outsmarting the Predator, but I'm only willing to go so far in my attempts to stay off the grid ;-)
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It's easy to defeat a thermal imaging camera. Just call in Natalie Portman with her hot grits, and every system is overloaded.
Or gait / movement recognition? (Score:2)
Altering your appearance is pretty easy. Altering your habits of motion like your gait, your hand gestures, even to some extent your patterns of facial expression.... not as easy.
CAPTCHA (Score:2, Interesting)
So, in other words, this is the facial recognition equivalent of a CAPTCHA?
Boot Camp 101 (Score:5, Informative)
He 'discovered' basic camoflage:
Diagonal lines confuses facial recognision in humans too.
Anyone that has been in the Military/Police could have told him that.
Haar wavelets now in fashoin! (Score:2)
My face would carry a barcode (Score:2)
That will trigger a buffer overflow and segmentation fault in the recognition software, consequently snow-crashing [wikipedia.org] the surveillance network wherever I go.
(Or maybe settle for sending a temporary sleep command [schlockmercenary.com].)
2 obvious ways around this.. (Score:1)
The new norm (Score:1)