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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Here is the video’s thumbnail.

I use an Extension called vidIQ to find and use the video thumbnail easily. The current thumbnail will be shown just below the video view count, on the right hand side on PC.

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    [–] 57 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yet another great video from Benn... however, I'm a bit disappointed that he isn't more explicit about how to protect your plates from these readers. I understand that he's likely doing it to protect himself (and his viewers) from legal recourse, and it's nice that he provides the code used to create and test the patterns, but I wish he had provided his research results to show which patterns were most effective at keeping the system from even detecting the presence of a plate.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Well, we're all reasonably intelligent people. Let's collectively brainstorm!

    It looks like masking with a random pattern made to look like dirt or debris is an option.

    To negate night reads, how about 2-4 layers of optical polarizing film, each transverse to the previous plane of polarization? Alternately, a coating with a visible light transparent, IR opaque pigment.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Could even literally make it mud, if you have access to a laser cutter (hacker space, etc) you could use that and make a stencil instead, then mix up some mud in a bucket (a little clay content goes a long way) and smear that over the stencil and tada – legitimately just some mud on my plate officer.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    IR strobes on opposite sides of your plate works while being legal in many areas since the plate stays unmodified.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The issue I see with that is you'd need to supply power to the lights, which wouldn't be impossible, but isn't exactly trivial.

    I wonder if having a license plate frame that changes it to not be a rectangle would work? Maybe even cover the frame in reflective tape to help blind the camera?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You already have power there to the license plate illuminator lights. It shouldn't be super difficult to tap into that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The trick is to tap into that power, while keeping things looking nice and neat. Most vehicles now have the license plate lights tucked away in housings. It would be nice to be able to have something that only uses the 2-4 screw holes that are used to hold the plates on since those are universal on vehicles sold in the US.

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  • Sure.

    But it's not that hard to access, you just need to remove the back panel on the inside to access the wires. The more important thing is knowing enough about electricity to be able to splice it in, but a YouTube video should be able to handle that.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Woah, this guy is great. I wish it were possible for me to do something like this full time, but I lack the wide skills he's got. I wonder how long it takes to get to that level? And I wonder if there's any organizations that might sort of scratch this itch? Been fantasizing about working for the EFF or something like that.

    Really really love how he ends the video by insulting and criticizing the companies that asked him to be sponsored by them. Insane power move

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He IS great. I saw him play at a festival a decade ago and all the equipment they provided failed. He just improvised a set, with lots of vocoder, and it was one of the best sets I’ve ever seen. (He’s The Flashbulb, if you haven’t heard him!)

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anyone know of the website that tracks where these cameras are located?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I feel like bright UV LEDs would blind digital cameras too.

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    I think these are great. Wish they weren't marketing it for people that want to do "sketchy shit". I don't want to do that at all, but I also don't want to be constantly tracked and identified everywhere I go.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Even though "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is bullshit, the primary market is people who have something to hide. Few people make more effort than grumbling online if they aren't actually afraid.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    too many fucking bootlickers

    I think there are also just a lot of regular people who are exhausted by the fight and just don't have the time, energy, or direction to know what to do about it.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    TLDR apply spots or “noise” to your plates. Put some duct tape or something on it to confuse the idiot that is modern AI.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    In many states, you're technically not able to alter the license plate or put stickers on it. But cameras don't know how big things are supposed to be. So put a frame around your license plate with all sorts of crazy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    In some states an obscured/unreadable license plate is all a cop needs to pull you over…

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There are covers that mess up photography but still work for viewing normally with your eyes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    and they’re probably highly illegal pretty much everywhere because they stop speed and red light cameras working and that’s exactly their marketed purposes

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    The cameras should work fine, they would just require manual review.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    for the tricks that mess up AI, yes

    but i believe this comment was talking about things like IR blocking covers and such

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Great video and very illuminating about corporatised data surveillance. I wonder how these practices would fly in European or UK data environments. Big cities certainly have extensive CCTV coverage both law enforcement based and private but I'm not sure you could be selling personally identifying data like that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    He rightfully points out in the video that even if the data isn't sold, it could still be leaked and then proceeds to show how insecure the camera systems are. This kind of surveillance infrastructure just shouldn't exist to begin with.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I would be curious if there have been any pen testing against the police and municipal camera networks in the UK. I wonder how many of the vulnerabilities of the system in the video come from trying to use WiFi to save on costs of hardwired setups.

    We've had them for a long time. In the London the "ring of steel" was installed as a result of the IRAs mainland bombing campaign in the 80s and of course has expanded as the various congestion and clean air zones have been rolled out. I doubt it would be politically possible to remove them now. While potential leaks are an issue at least public sector organisations have some degree of accountability for the cock ups.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Here is the video’s thumbnail.

    I use an Extension called vidIQ to find and use the video thumbnail easily. The current thumbnail will be shown just below the video view count.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    wait how is this relevant to the OP?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It relates to the video that OP shared here. It's the thumbnail of the video.

    I'd like to see more videos posted with their thumbnails on Lemmy. So I periodically comment on videos that don't have them yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Does your client not automatically pull the thumbnail from the website?

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Suspected all of it. Knew some of it. But lawdy the focus of this guy collating and posting it is absolutely beautiful

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Benn is amazing. I'll need to watch this later.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    this guy could become a millionaire if he could make the adversarial noise license plate cover that's imperceptible to the human eye; but given that he could afford all fo those toys to make/test his prototype along his rejection of vc fund proposals makes me think that he's not hurting for money.

    which also means that such a thing like the license plate cover is not going to happen anytime soon

    in the meantime, i guess i'll stick to just not driving unless i absolutely have to.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    https://deflock.me/

    If you have to drive, it's nice to know where the cameras are at.

    Obviously it doesnt help if youre going anywhere near a town center or highway or etc, but i can get groceries from a local place without passing any if i path it right which is nice to know.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Damn I can't go anywhere. There are 2 at both entrances to my neighborhood.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's worth it to note that deflock is highly incomplete though. I'm working on finding ALPRs in my community to add to the database, but based on just what I've seen, it feels like it might only cover 10%, if that, of what actually is deployed on the streets, and I live in a city, not some small town either.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Verymuchso indeed. Theres cameras on the BACK of our traffic lights at every corner in town too that arent on this list.

    But it helps navigating backroads/country and im not in a huge city so that's good enough.

    I do wave at the residential houses as i dodge a camera at a corner street.

    So if theres 40k on this list for the US and apl this is missing, it's at least double that number for sure.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    i'm pleased to learn that the only path i drive in is free of cameras and also surprising since it's where every single one of my speed & red light camera tickets have come from.

    i guess this city hasn't gotten around to retrofitting the police cameras with these tracking cameras.

    very neat and thank you for this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I will happily buy the adversarial license plate frame

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Can anyone please write a "for dummies" explanation of how to do this? I've gotten as far as cloning the repo, but there is just too much left unsaid in his readme, for someone like me.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Here is the video’s thumbnail.

    I use an Extension called vidIQ to find and use the video thumbnail easily. The current thumbnail will be shown just below the video view count.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Should I be that weird lady who always wears a mask seemingly just to be edgy?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    These cameras are specifically to track vehicles, not faces. Also, you don't need to wear a mask, there are very stylish options.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    This guy's assertion that you'll be thrown in prison for putting 'static' on your license iplate is insane. Cops do not care if you have dark tinted license plate covers, rendering them unreadable at a distance. Some strategically designed plate holder or a clear film with static is nothing

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I Imanige any kind of nice countour and heavy eyes would confuse ai

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Lidar destroys cameras.

    Do with that what you will.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • Wait, what?

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the vid, legit yesterday realised theres a flock camera on my way to work. I was pissed. Now im SUPER pissed FLOCK delta?!?

    Lets take our bill of rights and wipe our asses with it.

    It profiles you, tracks you and adds all your data (including 3rd party data from leaks and databrokers) To your licence plate, this isnt policing this is black mirror.

    Im not against ALPR, im against tracking and automated policing. If case law says, you need a warrent to look through personal stuff like houses, or devices. How is this legal!!!!

    Tell more people about it, cause a stir and HOLD THOSE POLITICIANS ACCOUNTABLE!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    But, but, it's a corporation doing all that not the government, so the constitution doesn't apply, right? /s

    And there are laws already to protect your privacy. Sure the punishment for breaking the law is exponentially lower than the profit they make by violating it and there's no punishment beyond the financial one and no punishment to the people doing it, but you're protected, right? /s /s /s

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Man this guy is so cool. Professional music producer and an actual fucking hacker activist.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Wow great video, that's some legit investigative journalism with some Mythbusters level experimental research added in. I hope that guy releases the patterns for noise that he came up with.

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