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How hard would it be to throw off facial recognition by simply wearing very high quality makeup and prosthetics to alter your facial appearance (ala hollywood m

How hard would it be to throw off facial recognition by simply wearing very high quality makeup and prosthetics to alter your facial appearance (ala hollywood movies)? If I were the boston bombers, I would have first learned how to make myself look completely different. It's unbelievable to me that these guys didn't realize they'd be captured on tons of cameras that day.

nwh 14y ago
If you wore Mission Impossible style masks, there's no reason why the facial recognition would be able to pick you up from underneath. You might alert the suspicion of people around you more though, as they don't ever seem to be perfect.
- runarb 14y ago
  What if you wore something like this: http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php ? One should be able to blend in, and make video surveillance pretty useless... Edit: Did work for this robbers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disguised-white-cops-caught--send-polite-thank-letter-company-unbelievable-latex-masks.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disg...
Plimsoll 14y ago
This brings to mind this bank robbery news from few years aback: http://gizmodo.com/5711252/white-guy-becomes-black-bank-robber-with-super-realistic-hollywood-mask http://gizmodo.com/5711252/white-guy-becomes-black-bank-robb... Don't know how easy it is to get those masks though.
speednoise 14y ago
Easier than you may think: http://cvdazzle.com/ http://cvdazzle.com/
gcr 14y ago
CV-Dazzle attempts to throw off face detectors by doing just that: http://cvdazzle.com/ http://cvdazzle.com/ But then again, the police will label you as "that guy with weird bits of plastic on his face", which won't help you hide at all.
dyno12345 14y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Fuzzy-Glasses-Classic-Disguise/dp/B000JNS2ZS/ http://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Fuzzy-Glasses-Classic-Di... Costs $3, will beat any facial recognition
- anigbrowl 14y ago
  'Classic disguise, unless you already look like this' :)
  - minopret 14y ago
    Contributions needed for Gene Shalit Legal Defense Fund.
openmx 14y ago
Or just wear sunglasses or greasy sunscreen...

nwh 14y ago

If you wore Mission Impossible style masks, there's no reason why the facial recognition would be able to pick you up from underneath. You might alert the suspicion of people around you more though, as they don't ever seem to be perfect.

runarb 14y ago
What if you wore something like this: http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php http://www.spfxmasks.com/ourmasks.php ? One should be able to blend in, and make video surveillance pretty useless... Edit: Did work for this robbers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disguised-white-cops-caught--send-polite-thank-letter-company-unbelievable-latex-masks.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-disg...

Plimsoll 14y ago

This brings to mind this bank robbery news from few years aback: http://gizmodo.com/5711252/white-guy-becomes-black-bank-robber-with-super-realistic-hollywood-mask http://gizmodo.com/5711252/white-guy-becomes-black-bank-robb... Don't know how easy it is to get those masks though.

speednoise 14y ago

Easier than you may think: http://cvdazzle.com/ http://cvdazzle.com/

gcr 14y ago

CV-Dazzle attempts to throw off face detectors by doing just that: http://cvdazzle.com/ http://cvdazzle.com/ But then again, the police will label you as "that guy with weird bits of plastic on his face", which won't help you hide at all.

dyno12345 14y ago

http://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Fuzzy-Glasses-Classic-Disguise/dp/B000JNS2ZS/ http://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Fuzzy-Glasses-Classic-Di... Costs $3, will beat any facial recognition

anigbrowl 14y ago
'Classic disguise, unless you already look like this' :)
- minopret 14y ago
  Contributions needed for Gene Shalit Legal Defense Fund.

openmx 14y ago

Or just wear sunglasses or greasy sunscreen...