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Straight out of William Gibson's "Zero History"!

• jgrahamc 7y ago
  Yes. I had the same thought: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1192813088950702080 https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1192813088950702080
• tumba 7y ago
  In Zero History, the purpose of the shirt was not to fool the algorithm, but to trip a deep "gentlemen's agreement" between intelligence agencies to make invisible anyone bearing a certain pattern in order to protect the intelligence apparatus. It will always be difficult to sustainably defeat recognition algorithms and I expect this to be an arms race along the same lines as other counter-surveillance techniques. Gibson's suggestion that deeply coded and secret exceptions to mass surveillance might be used to protect state actors seems to me a plausible and concerning aspect of these developments.
• gorb314 7y ago
  Yup. And wasn't there a similar thing in Neuromancer, with a gang of members wearing such urban camouflage?