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https://www.reflectacles.com/
Anti facial recognition glasses.
IR blocking lenses, reflective frames.
Another way to fuck with a lot of cameras is basically jerry rig some high powered IR LEDs onto your glasses frames, but that does also require a power source and ... i guess either a switch, or a battery that is easy to pop in and out.
Im not aware of anyone actually making and selling those, tho.
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Basically, it can roughly be analogized to stealth tech for a jet:
Reflectacles... are roughly the equivalent of steath RAM and a bit of a mix of scattering radar waves and also active jamming.... visual range gets fucked by the reflective frames, ir blocking lenses... block and absorb IR.
The 'jerry right IR lights into your frames' option... is more like massive EM jamming done by an ELINT aircraft. You'll basically just show up as an indescirnable smudge spot, very detectable by cameras... but not identifiable by most cameras, if your IR lamps are strong enough to overload their sensors.
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Neither of these are guaranteed to work in all situations.
Some cameras can handle massive IR intensity, others have algos that say, identify people not by facial recognition, but by gait analysis... exactly how you carry your self as you walk/run.
These have been discussed in another sub and only work at night.
The reflectactles?
Well, thats good to know.
Maybe augment them with IR lamps?
Hrm, it just now occurs to me, if you were to do a jerry rigged IR lamp setup, it might make sense to have something like a dimmer switch, or alternate modes of flashing in various timed or random sequences... may be more or less effective depending on the distance to the kind of camera(s) you're trying to fuck with, balanced with overall battery life.