There, technically, hypothetically, could be a situation where such shirt is possible. But it would require a bug in the camera firmware, which would probably work on just one camera model. For example, a shirt with a pattern that tricks the camera into detecting more faces than it was designed to, causing a buffer overflow and a crash. Reasonable, although extremely unlikely
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I rolled my eyes at your optimism that such a material would exist but I took it all back by the end. Despite it being incredibly niche and unrealistic, that is by far the most clever suggestion in the thread!
Yes it would be. You're wearing it with clear intent of damaging equipment.
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Looking to get an eicar QR code shirt?
That's incredible!
Best i can do is an Elton John style jacket. Dazzle them to hell and back.
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Damaging a camera is very different from something that makes taking a picture impossible. It doesn't matter if it is passive or active, only the end result is important.
A celebrity might get away with it when just trying to get home but would probably be required to pay for damage to the camera. Anyone at a large venue is going to be ruining everyone's cameras and that would be a huge deal.
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Invent?!? Bro, just use infrared LEDs 😂
Not passive. Won't damage cameras.
Yes not passive but you're not thinking big enough.
That just brings us back to lasers, though.
No, but you will basically look like a bloomed-out version of this:
This is my thought: unless everyone uses it, they just have to track the one glowing dude. Eventually you'll be in front of a camera or person who will identify you clearly, and it will be that much easier because you're glowing.
The FCC has (had? Do they still exist?) rules about this, very straightforward.
I think Lidar can do this in certain circumstances. Not really practical for a shirt though.
Not passive.
True. I seem to have skipped that requirement when reading the post.
This reminds me of a movie or a tv show where people were sneaking into a compound and disabled the security cameras with a laser pointer.
There are things that damage a camera when you point at them, but they aren’t passive. Things like x-ray sources could do that. Also the sun.
So no, even if you reflected 100% of the light from the flash back into the lens, there’s just not enough of it to do any damage.
If you were somehow able to focus all of it on one single pixel on the sensor, you might be able to damage that pixel, but that would require a large piece of optical equipment basically on top of the camera.
Yeah even if it wasnt ilegal i bet people would find a way to charge you for it or stop you from using it to protect yourself.
Take the simple option of putting on a balaclava and smashing the cameras.
I just recently read a short story with a similar concept, all pictures and videos have been banned since there was found to be images that will kill anyone when they look at them.
When I get back to my anthology book I’ll look up what one it was, it’s in the Big Book of CyberPunk.