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In Cory Doctorow's _Little Brother_, some characters would put pebbles in their shoes so gait-recognizers wouldn't recognize them.
by r-bryan 8y ago
In Cory Doctorow's _Little Brother_, some characters would put pebbles in their shoes so gait-recognizers wouldn't recognize them.
- on_and_off 8y agoThat's what real life spies do too edit : a source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8
- Choco31415 8y agoThe relevant time stamps 4:39-5:02. Former CIA Chief: "Changing the way that you walk requires some amendment to what you're doing. You're going to need a physical apparatus to make you walk differently. You can't possibly say, okay, now I'm going to limp. To change my walk, I put a little piece of gravel in my shoe, just a little thing that pinches my toe, and it changes my walk whether I want to or not. You can put a bandage around a knee, something that restricts you, will change your walk."
- Upvoter33 8y agoAnd in Dune ...
- ARothfusz 8y agoDarn, now I'm going to have to go back and re-read Dune considering the worm as a metaphor for the surveillance state. Walk without rhythm!
- geggam 8y agoI knew I read something like this
- ctoth 8y agoCurious if Doctorow got this from Double Star (Heinlein, 1956)