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L.J.Steele · 12-05-2022, 08:41 AM

From The Prepared

Anti-facial recognition knitting

Last summer at EMF Camp I watched a talk by Ottilia Westerlund entitled Anti-surveillance Knitting. Knitting and surveillance have a long history, most notably during wartime to encode secret messages into thread patterns. Ottilia’s project is an anti-surveillance jumper, knitted with patterns of black and white dots to incorrectly trigger facial detection algorithms.

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In 2016 somebody in the UK registered ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD as an official business name – one which contains a common form of database hack. Whilst this was a mostly harmless prank, in 2020 a new company was registered with a legal name containing a potentially much more serious exploit. Since then, that company’s name has been redacted from all public government records, and the law was amended last year to prevent company names that “consist of or include computer code.”

12-05-2022, 08:41 AM	#2737
L.J.Steele Join Date: Apr 2005	Re: Real-Life Weirdness From The Prepared Anti-facial recognition knitting Last summer at EMF Camp I watched a talk by Ottilia Westerlund entitled Anti-surveillance Knitting. Knitting and surveillance have a long history, most notably during wartime to encode secret messages into thread patterns. Ottilia’s project is an anti-surveillance jumper, knitted with patterns of black and white dots to incorrectly trigger facial detection algorithms. and In 2016 somebody in the UK registered ; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES";-- LTD as an official business name – one which contains a common form of database hack. Whilst this was a mostly harmless prank, in 2020 a new company was registered with a legal name containing a potentially much more serious exploit. Since then, that company’s name has been redacted from all public government records, and the law was amended last year to prevent company names that “consist of or include computer code.”