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I strongly recommend that next time you have some government-enforced photogrpahy
session (job, drivers license, High School, arrest, football game etc.) you try and
alter your appearance. These systems are good, but they aren't that good (despite what
their vendors claim). Eric Rudolph could have been at the Superbowl if he'd won a
beard and dark glasses. Consider using the following:
Beard (probably only feasable for men), pref big and bushy so it distorts the shape of
the face. Sideburns are also an excellent disguise, but make sure they are big ones.
Glasses (they may ask you to remove sunglasses so consider a pair of frames with clear
glass. you'd be surprised how different people who put on a pair of glasses look.
Complexion. There are all sorts of creams and ointments you can use to make yourself
paler or darker skinned (face only). People with naturally black skin will find it
easiest to faces darker (hair dye or something which won't smudge are good) than it
normally is. A brown 'chocolate' complexion can be changed to an black 'Ebony'
complexion, which is actually far more effective than you might realise. If Mr Racist
Policeman has a picture of someone with very dark skin, he will usually ignore people
with lighter skin (and vice versa).
Bandaging. Seriously. If the government demands you have a picture taken for a drivers
license, what are they going to do if you happen to burn your face with hot fat the
day before the pictures are due? Either A) take a picture of your bandaged head or B)
ask you to provide a photo at your convenience. You can also do a far less extreme job
with nose plaster or one of those padded eye-patch bandages.
Acne. Get a red texta colour, or blobs of makeup (or improvised from the kitchen) and
cover part of your face with red or pus-yellow spots. This has the benefit that many
people will avoid obviously staring at your face for a good look, as with most
disfigurations. You can imitate either 'live' acne or acne scarring.
Scars. Seriously. Go to a joke shop and get a transfer scar, stich etc and whack it
onto your face. Give yourself a dead eye with a slash down the middle (not recommended
for Driving Licenses). A nasty knife scar on your chin. If anyone is rude enough to
enquire, tell them you got stabbed waiting at an ATM.
Fringe (men and women). Some hairstyle with a low fringe can cover your forehead
partly (or entirely). You can always slick it back afterwards of course!
The marketers of these softwares typically claim that their highly advanced algoriths
measure the width of stubble on your chin and compare it to the other pictures. This
is usually baloney (sales hype). They compare features to their existing database and
eliminate faces which don't match. Police photo-fit software (which I have used a
couple of times) will usually throw up a dozen or so matches from any given
description. This is based on the 20 or 30 main features. An actual photographic
system has hundreds of features to compare and a perfect memory, but there is probably
a cut-off point where it discards the image. I.E. If it looks for 500 features, and
you only have 200 of them, you are off the hot-list. If you have 450, maybe you are
thrown up by the computer.
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:02:01 -0800 John Cone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>--- Johannes Schmidt IV
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Casinos Using Facial Surveillance
>
>
> ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Taking photos of customers and
>> then checking the images against those in criminal
>> files didn't start at Super Bowl XXXV.
>______________________________________________________
>
>Nakano comments:
>This untra-fast computer surveillance-comparison
>software is here to stay and it will become more
>pervasive and more invasive.
>Before long, many of the "security cameras'
>in banks, public buildings, private company offices,
>shopping malls, convenience stores, and etc will be
>linked into such a national system.....eventually a
>global system.
>Have you noticed all the "traffic cameras"
>now in place at major traffic intersections?
>The same sort of software that performs these scan
>comparisons can do the same with license plate
>numbers.
>WELCOME TO THE BRAVE NEW WORLD!
>BIG BROTHER IS GETTING BIGGER AND MORE POWERFUL, AND
>YES...HE IS WATCHING OUR EVERY MOVE.
>
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