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Seem to recall license plates are required to be illuminated as well. What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures? Could
by SamInTheShell 9mo ago
Seem to recall license plates are required to be illuminated as well. What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures? Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes it impossible to even see the plate clearly through cameras?
Personally, if I cared enough to obfuscate my plate info from these devices, I would just taint their data by wrapping my car in a wrap with various different "plates" themed art. I like cars and the exterior has traditionally been treated like art. Tainting data is just as effective at making the core dataset useless as omitting data in the first place.
- snowfield 9mo agoDon't think that really works.think that's been debunked
- SamInTheShell 9mo agoWhich thing?
- BobaFloutist 9mo agoSurely the sensor would detect the IR separately from the visible light and could easily filter it out?
- SamInTheShell 9mo agoGenuinely don’t know. The hack here is exploiting artifacts from over exposure for the camera sensor. As to if they have mitigating features to filter non visible light, I’m actually curious.
- vorpalhex 9mo agoI doubt it, that is a lot of extra cost against an attack that doesn't exist today.
- SamInTheShell 9mo agoI just imagine the most hilarious form of this idea being a panel that lays behind the plate that is part of the car. The panel containing an array of IR leds that flood everything behind the car with invisible light. Imagine going out side, seeing nothing, but you pop open your phone's camera app and everything is illuminated for some reason. Would be wild. Edit: I have no concept of what camera sensors are doing these days.
- LorenPechtel 9mo agoMost digital cameras see farther on the low end than humans do and it can do some odd things. It made the news with the Sony? camera that had a mode specifically to use this--turns out it sort-of sees through many swimsuits. Or a video I've seen of firefighters caught in a burnover--the fire looked very weird!
- 15155 9mo ago> What's stopping someone from just adding an additional IR light to those enclosures Nothing. > Couldn't you just slap an additional bright enough IR light in that makes it impossible to even see the plate clearly through cameras? You could: but it will only work at night (and even then, I don't know if the amount of light you could concentrate in that area would be enough to blow out letters), because all of these cameras have switchable IR cutoff filters.