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I was very unhappy to discover that shoes now often have RFIDs built into soles. This + anti-theft RFIDs readers that are already deployed by the entry of most stores can allow to easily assign unique ids to shoppers.
Would putting my newly bought shoes into a microwave be a good countermeasure?
You'd be surprised / scared / outraged if you knew how common this is. Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for. Advertising in the physical world is just as scummy as it's online equivalent. Check out the video here http://sightcorp.com/ for an ultra creepy overview. You can even try their live demo: https://face-api.sightcorp.com/demo_basi…
I was very unhappy to discover that shoes now often have RFIDs built into soles. This + anti-theft RFIDs readers that are already deployed by the entry of most stores can allow to easily assign unique ids to shoppers.
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If you were actually against it you would not take part of making this happen. Inadvertently spill the name of the company making this and those wanting to use it to the public so they can receive their well deserved backlash.
You going to offer me another job that has comparative pay and work-time flexibility? I'll take if one's going, but right now this is my gig. If you want to start a war, have a quick Google for the big players, they'll have this tech in and will be proudly advertising it on their site. The thing is: People don't care. Not your HN reader (evidently), but your Joe Bloggs. Hell, Snowdon told them the Five Eyes are readi…
That's exactly what bigbugbag meant. You don't really care and are in for the job. That's okay but just be honest here.
I could sell useless products to old people and make some money on the side. But I don't because I'm against that.
As someone working on a similar project (specifically, emotion recognition) I'm highly interested to hear how such a product should look like to be not considered unethical. So far from the comments I see that: - it should be made clear that you are being analyzed e.g. by big yellow sticker near the camera - no raw data should be stored - it should be used to collect statistics, not identify individuals (?) Is it suf…
I have a question: Do you do trials in a controlled environment, where you actually have proper feedback and a distinct comparison between self-described state and machine analysis? Because in my opinion, systems like these are like modern day version of astrology (at least, when they are only based on vision and not things like fMRT imaging or proper psychological analysis). I know seriously depressed people, who al…
1. Accurate collection of facial features. Illumination, occlusions, head rotation, etc. may seriously affect accuracy, but this is exactly our main focus right now. We are at the very start of the process, yet early experiments and some recent papers show that it should be doable.
2. Correlation between real and detected emotional state. At the moment we concentrate on the 6 basic emotions and don't detect less common expressions like depression with smiling face. This topic is definitely interesting and I'm pretty much sure it's possible to implement given enough training data, but right now we try to concentrate on different things.
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You're supposed to come out at night with a countermeasure masking your face and destroy the billboard. IIRC the countermeasure is quite easy and requires something like a LED and a battery, but I may be wrong it's been 10+ years.
An array of IR LEDs in a hat would probably work.
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I've heard that you can disable RFID readers (not tags, readers) with an appropriately-resonant coil and an EMP circuit. I'm not sure if the same can be done to tags, but considering the size of the tiny electronics, and the fact that they are manufactured under the assumption they'll never need to be touched (aka, no CMOS spike tolerance), it might be trivially... ...wait. I just remembered about RFID alarm barriers…
>> Well this is annoyingly difficult to discuss, then... Why? Is there a law against public discussion about how to disable an anti-theft device or something?
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I've heard that you can disable RFID readers (not tags, readers) with an appropriately-resonant coil and an EMP circuit. I'm not sure if the same can be done to tags, but considering the size of the tiny electronics, and the fact that they are manufactured under the assumption they'll never need to be touched (aka, no CMOS spike tolerance), it might be trivially... ...wait. I just remembered about RFID alarm barriers…
Indeed you can, from a disposable camera flash circuit[1]! Though I concur, might be used for evil purposes, couldn't resist posting this. I just love disposable cameras hacks. [1]: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/static/r/f/i/RFID-Zapper...
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I was very unhappy to discover that shoes now often have RFIDs built into soles. This + anti-theft RFIDs readers that are already deployed by the entry of most stores can allow to easily assign unique ids to shoppers.
Time to revive this idea https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/rfid_personal...
I suppose reading the paper is one option.
EDIT: Link to the paper seems to be broken. Here's the PDF: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/lisa-2006.pdf
Google translate is readable, if not super-mega-accurate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...