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Good write up. Still I gotta say: a N95 mask will do the trick for cheap, with side bonus of also blocking flu & covid!
by dweinus 9mo ago
Good write up. Still I gotta say: a N95 mask will do the trick for cheap, with side bonus of also blocking flu & covid!
- plagiarist 9mo agoWhy wouldn't they just do gait analysis?
- brk 9mo agoBecause that isn’t a thing.
- SapporoChris 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait_analysis#Surveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait_analysis#Surveillance It may not be an issue for you at the moment, but outright dismissal will not keep you safe.
- brk 9mo agoI work in this space and have for quite a while. There is no productized gait analysis software available to the commercial markets.
- nortlov 9mo agoSurely archived footage would be ripe for automated analysis once the tools are commercialized.
- brk 9mo agoYes, in the same way stored passwords of today may eventually be broken by the quantum computing tools of tomorrow. The post I replied to implied that gait analysis is a viable alternative option. Gait analysis is not an option today, or this year, or even in the next decade. There is no data supporting the claim that it can be done reliably enough to get down to practical reidentification use cases.
- 125123wqw1212 9mo agoprohibitively expensive
- seb1204 9mo agoI don't know your financial situation but a N95 mask can't cost you more than 10$? I can find 10 packs for less than 10$. You can even reuse your shopping mask since you primary point is privacy and not air borne pathogens.
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- duskdozer 9mo agoYou can still reuse N95s for airborne pathogens as long as they fit well, but I believe that user was referring to gait analysis being too expensive.
- beej71 9mo agoShoe stone.
- DetectDefect 9mo agoOr a tack - in case Wegmans tries to pull a polygraph on you.
- iamnothere 9mo agoIt’s unreliable and difficult. The most recent failure (made the news) was the laughable attempt to link the J6 bomber to a random police officer. Gait analysis belongs in the movies or maybe in some one-off national security investigation where nothing else is available.
- duskdozer 9mo agoSome places that would do face recognition would not do gait analysis, and so you defeat those. Additionally, if you prevent them from doing face recognition and they can do gait recognition, they will be forced to use gait recognition, which is likely more expensive or less reliable, which will limit their ability to do it in a widespread fashion or cost them more to do so. Think of it like cloudflare in reverse. The less of your identity you passively provide cloudflare, the more they will hinder and punish you and your CPU before letting you through to the website. If they make it burdensome enough, you may give in and give over your private data or not access the website at all.
- kmoser 9mo agoThere are cameras (software, really) that can recognize you with a high degree of accuracy, despite you wearing a mask.
- Eisenstein 9mo agoThe answer to 'I don't agree with this' is not 'do something that lets me bypass it while they do it to everyone else until it becomes normalized' it is 'make them stop doing it'.
- ironmagma 9mo agoWell you could stand outside and hand out N95 masks to spread awareness. That isn’t doing nothing to fix the issue.