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A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Nobody_Special@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Detected smudge with license plate. SWAT team has been dispatched.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That’s the trick, though. With these patterns, the camera doesn’t even recognize that there’s a car there at all.

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[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Would it read a license plate if you set it in the bushes?

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

There's an idea. Start putting fake license plates everywhere to poison ALPRs.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 point 2 months ago

"Let's hear it for the vague blur" -p k dick, A Scanner Darkly

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