A fashion designer and professional hacker has developed clothes that are capable of misleading surveillance cameras, showing the image of the person wearing the car in a camera recording.
These clothes are covered with pictures of car number plates that lead to the operation of automated reading systems and pump this data to systems used to monitor and track citizens.
Automated plate reading systems, usually found on street poles, street lights and bridges over highways, use surveillance cameras and image recognition devices connected to telecommunications networks to track the license plate numbers with the location, date and timing of the vehicle's presence.
Fashion designer and hacking professional Kate Ross showcased her creative attire at the Dev Con Information Security Conference in Las Vegas. Plate reading devices in police cars.
Ross stressed that this new range of fashion underscores the need to make computer-based surveillance systems less widespread and make them harder to use without human supervision.
"Anyone walking by the side of the road or passing through a pedestrian crossing area is often very close to a car dashboard, which usually covers a wide field of view, but has problems with its accuracy," she said.
The new fashion group is experimental, she said, "but I worked hard to make sure it would work on the streets during the day," so that surveillance cameras could not photograph the person wearing it.
The new fashion collection includes T-shirts, jackets, dresses and blouses, covered with pictures of modified car plates, and other circular patterns. The price of one piece of these clothes ranges between $ 25 and $ 50.
TechNet.com said that when choosing clothing size, the focus should not only be on the size of the person, but also to ensure maximum reading of the paintings to work effectively.