From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Thu Dec 16 1999 - 22:50:45 MST
Charlie Stross wrote:
> Would you walk into a bank wearing a stocking mask because you don't like
> being taped by the security cameras? No. Why not? Because it's a good
> way to get yourself a ticket to the nearest hospital mortuary.
Charlie, I missed this angle because I have not been inside a bank for
over 4 years. {8-] Good point tho.
> Likewise, trying to fool biometric monitors in
> public may well come to be seen as storngly crime-associated behaviour.
Ja. I thought of a system that would fool face rec software without being
obvious to the casual observer you were doing it. For instance, consider
a U shaped device that one would put in one's mouth like a boxer's
mouthpiece sort of, except it doesnt cover the teeth. It goes above the
top teeth and below the bottoms. It has a kind of elastic squishy silicone
stuff in it like those anti-stress doll toys one can now purchase. One
could then press on one cheek and the stuff would flow over and make
the other cheek swell slightly. Any human would recognize you with
one side swelled slightly, whereas the software is less sophisticated
than that in a human brain, and would likely misidentify you. If one
is using such devices, it would not be apparent one was doing so.
Actually I need to check on the state of the art in face rec. How
would it know if some yahoo is making strange faces as she walks
down the street? spike
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