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Wear a face mask in public. Got it.
by lenerdenator 9mo ago
Wear a face mask in public. Got it.
- dylan604 9mo agoAren't we back to where this is illegal again, unless you're an ICE agent.
- lenerdenator 9mo ago"Hey man, doctor's orders. Gotta wear it to get allergy relief. And no, can't ask about it... HIPAA stuff."
- FireBeyond 9mo agoSadly, I'm sure that will go over "not well" with ICE agents who will happily assault you for carrying a phone...
- seanw444 9mo agoI disagree with the shooting too, but this is such a massive oversimplification of the event.
- FireBeyond 9mo agoAlright, I'll rephrase - "ICE agents have shown a bias towards escalation than de-escalation in conflict situations, be it pepper spray, assault, detention, or worse. I think that trying to get into a shouting match with them about HIPAA violations on removing your face mask are not likely to result in "okay, carry on, as you were"."
- dylan604 9mo ago"I'll show you mine if you show me yours"
- hackingonempty 9mo agoIt is not a good idea to lie to an employee of the USA. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
- lenerdenator 9mo agoWho said it's a lie? It's also not a good idea to operate a police state.
- dylan604 9mo agoYou and I pay that employee's salary.
- estebank 9mo agoI think anything short of fully obscuring your face (a-la ICE-agent/stormtrooper) will be merely a mitigation and not 100% successful. I recall articles talking about face recognition being used "successfully" on people wearing surgical masks in China. In the US they ask you to remove face masks in places where face recognition is used (at the border, TSA checkpoints), but would be unsurprised if that isn't strictly needed in most cases (but asking people to remove it preemptively ends up being faster for throughput).
- quantified 9mo agoProbably room to add little cheek pads or other shape-shifters under the mask.
- verdverm 9mo agoYou have to change how you walk and sounds as well
- lotsofpulp 9mo ago99.9% of people walk around with an electronic device that identifies them. If a particular person doesn’t, it should be trivial to filter out all the people that it couldn’t have been, leaving only a small list of possible people.
- adi_kurian 9mo agoIf you have not yet heard of it, look into gait recognition. Any battle for anonymity is a losing one, it appears.
- lenerdenator 9mo agoIn that case, guess it's time to start thinking of ways to make it unappealing to act upon the intelligence they've gathered upon us.
- nullocator 9mo agoYour gait I think is more useful than your face is anyways and my understanding is it's my difficult to disguise. So you'll need a wheel chair/scooter and a mask in public.
- ajcp 9mo agoPutting a rock in your shoe instantly changes your gait signature.
- mrguyorama 9mo agoThank you Corey Doctorow and "Little Brother". That book was prescient. And free. Frankly, I never imagined when I read that decades ago, that it could be underselling the horror.