{"id":159194,"date":"2023-02-28T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-simple-diy-hoodie-can-fool-security-cameras"},"modified":"2023-02-28T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:22:18","slug":"a-simple-diy-hoodie-can-fool-security-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-simple-diy-hoodie-can-fool-security-cameras","title":{"rendered":"A simple DIY hoodie can fool security cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-simple-diy-hoodie-can-fool-security-cameras2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pierce, an artist whose work critically engages with weaponized emerging technologies, recently unveiled their latest ingenious project\u2014an everyday hoodie retrofitted to include an array of infrared (IR) LEDs that, when activated, blinds any nearby night vision security cameras. Using mostly off-the-shelf components like LumiLED lights, an Adafruit microcontroller, and silicone wire, as well as we software Pierce that made open-source for interested DIYers, the privacy-boosting \u201cCamera Shy Hoodie\u201d is designed to enable citizens to safely engage in civic protests and demonstrations. Or, wearers can just simply opt-out of being tracked by unknown third-parties while walking down the street.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A DIY hack for hoodies emits infrared LEDs to obscure wearers\u2019 faces from invasive surveillance camera tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierce, an artist whose work critically engages with weaponized emerging technologies, recently unveiled their latest ingenious project\u2014an everyday hoodie retrofitted to include an array of infrared (IR) LEDs that, when activated, blinds any nearby night vision security cameras. Using mostly off-the-shelf components like LumiLED lights, an Adafruit microcontroller, and silicone wire, as well as we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}