Flock cameras have earned their moment in the crosshairs, and it isn't hard to see why. License plate-reading cameras were sold on the premise of sharper law enforcement, but the rollout has produced misuse, false flags, and a public that increasingly wants nothing to do with the surveillance apparatus quietly spreading across the country.
SYAC: no pictures of the actual vehicle in this article, just stock images of Flock cameras. How incompetent of a journalist do you have to be to fail to include a picture of the thing your article is about?
Here is an article that actually shows the wrap on the car:
https://www.techspot.com/news/113418-cybersecurity-researcher-covered-toyota-ai-generated-pattern-confuse.html
It looks like this:
And here is a link to the mentioned Kickstarter campaign, which the Yahoo article also fails to provide:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/norecognition/norecognition-ai-adversarial-clothing/description
The campaign doesn’t mention the car at all, which is a little odd. You’d think they’d be using the media attention.
I also want to share a link to a previous post about this project:
https://piefed.social/c/privacy@lemmy.world/p/2288321/anti-flock-anti-ring-ai-adversarial-clothing-demo-d-blackhat-defcon
My opinion is still the same as in that discussion - I don’t think a static pattern is going to be effective for very long.
Is the word “Donut” kryptonite to Flock?
Donut Media was the sponsor for the project.