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The normalization of face-masks in public have been amazing for aiding anonymity.

kwere 4y ago
too bad one can be identified also from the way they walks [0] [0]https://www.cnet.com/science/china-surveillance-tech-ids-people-by-their-walk https://www.cnet.com/science/china-surveillance-tech-ids-peo...
- x3n0ph3n3 4y ago
  I don't think there's a nationwide database of walking gate fingerprints facilitated by your local DMVs.
LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
Not if they apply https://github.com/topics/gait-analysis https://github.com/topics/gait-analysis & https://github.com/topics/gait-recognition https://github.com/topics/gait-recognition https://securitytoday.com/articles/2018/11/12/new-surveillance-tool-gait-recognition.aspx https://securitytoday.com/articles/2018/11/12/new-surveillan... https://recfaces.com/articles/what-is-gait-recognition https://recfaces.com/articles/what-is-gait-recognition If they (can) do so ATM (at large scale and in real time) is another matter, but only a question of time, IMO.
- _Algernon_ 4y ago
  Not sure how effective it would be in reality, but in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother they work around gait analysis by putting some pebbles in their shoes.
  - LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
    As a temporary means of distraction, maybe. But it wouldn't really change the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics, ratio of joint to limb length, and so on. You'd just sway a little bit different, but not that much. Then there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS , the digital signature of your gadgets in the EM-spectrum, where their sudden 'disapperance' might raise flags, leading to 'replay' of the region for further analysis. But there is always hope in rising incompetence of ever growing institutions and organisations, hollowed out from the insides by the parasites they attract.
  - lordnacho 4y ago
    Yeah a lot of people think funding innovative new walking styles is why they exist, but they ministry of silly walks has other more sinister purposes as well. https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI

too bad one can be identified also from the way they walks [0] [0]https://www.cnet.com/science/china-surveillance-tech-ids-people-by-their-walk https://www.cnet.com/science/china-surveillance-tech-ids-peo...

x3n0ph3n3 4y ago
I don't think there's a nationwide database of walking gate fingerprints facilitated by your local DMVs.

LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago

Not if they apply https://github.com/topics/gait-analysis https://github.com/topics/gait-analysis & https://github.com/topics/gait-recognition https://github.com/topics/gait-recognition https://securitytoday.com/articles/2018/11/12/new-surveillance-tool-gait-recognition.aspx https://securitytoday.com/articles/2018/11/12/new-surveillan... https://recfaces.com/articles/what-is-gait-recognition https://recfaces.com/articles/what-is-gait-recognition If they (can) do so ATM (at large scale and in real time) is another matter, but only a question of time, IMO.

_Algernon_ 4y ago
Not sure how effective it would be in reality, but in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother they work around gait analysis by putting some pebbles in their shoes.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
  As a temporary means of distraction, maybe. But it wouldn't really change the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinematics, ratio of joint to limb length, and so on. You'd just sway a little bit different, but not that much. Then there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-area_motion_imagery AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS , the digital signature of your gadgets in the EM-spectrum, where their sudden 'disapperance' might raise flags, leading to 'replay' of the region for further analysis. But there is always hope in rising incompetence of ever growing institutions and organisations, hollowed out from the insides by the parasites they attract.
- lordnacho 4y ago
  Yeah a lot of people think funding innovative new walking styles is why they exist, but they ministry of silly walks has other more sinister purposes as well. https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI https://youtu.be/eCLp7zodUiI