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All right, well, in tonight's show, we're going to be taking a break from all the serious stuff that I've kind of done the last few weeks. We're going to have a little bit of fun. We're going to have some fun with surveillance cameras. So in today's world, the aspect of cameras in our lives or being seen on a camera at some point during the day is pretty much guaranteed. You know, cameras are ubiquitous, and most everyone carries one in their pocket. You know, we see the traffic cameras. We see the CCTV inside the buildings. We see people taking pictures of everything, selfies and whatnot. And for the vast majority, this is okay. It's good because cameras can be used to protect us. There's a lot of good in having surveillance cameras. And they can record an event and all kinds of other stuff for both personal, private, and public stuff. Think webcams. Webcams allow us to have a face-to-face conversation with friends and family. And if you're Skyping or doing FaceTime or whatever... You can see that person, and being able to see a person and know that they're okay based on their appearance can be worth the world, especially if you're a parent watching your child, or if you're a child and you get to see your grandparents or whatnot. There's a lot of good technology with that. In my Bug In, Bug Out radio show, I talk about security cameras being used as a deterrent and being used as a detection soap. If you want to hear what I said about that, go check out my show. It was Bug In, Bug Out. However, surveillance cameras being everywhere is not all unicorns and rainbows. There is actually a darker side to having all these cameras, and it actually comes in the form of an invasion of privacy. So public and private cameras can be used to peer into our lives without our consent, and they can do it from great distances. You know, there's facial recognition. That's becoming more pronounced. There's drones that are pretty much everywhere. Everybody's got a drone. Even kids have got drones, and they're recording. And you never know when you're actually going to be on camera because a lot of times the cameras are so far away you can't actually see them. So a lot of people in the world complain that the camera's everywhere because it actually does very, very little to reduce crime, and it's an invasion of prophecy. And that can be true. There's a lot of times where you have the camera's, And people are going to do stuff anyway regardless. I mean, look at the UK and the Europe. There's cameras everywhere, and that hasn't reduced the crime. It's not the thing preventing it. It's the people. But anyway, like I said a minute ago, oftentimes you're not even going to see the camera that's actually watching you because sometimes they're behind a dome, and we don't know which way they're looking, number one. But number two, as a society, we have become used to them, and basically we kind of largely ignore them. You know, I guess I'm the weirdo when I walk into a store and I actually look up into the rafters to see where the security cameras are at, see where they're pointing, see what kind of security stuff a store has. I'm not planning on doing anything. I just out of habit when I walk into a place, I glance around and look at the cameras and glance in the corners and look in the rafters and, you know, look to see where all the wiring's running to and whatnot. I don't know. I'm just weird. But anyway... if you kind of piqued your interest on that, a really good website to check out that has news and topics concerning this is the NYC Surveillance Camera Project. And they're in New York, but it's called the NYC Surveillance Camera Project. If you go Google that, it's got a pretty good stuff. A lot of it's devoted to New York because it's NYC, but it's not all just New York. This actually can provide a jumping point for other cities. I think there's some in California and I think there's maybe one or two in Chicago and some other big cities. So, you know, it's something worthwhile checking out. So what do we do when we don't want to be seen and we don't want to be recognized? Well, we blind the camera, or we can do the term dazzle. Dazzling the camera means temporarily spot blindness. So word of thing here, please understand tonight is just about having fun, All of this talk is purely hypothetical. Please don't go do this. You know, use common sense with this. We're just, like I said, we're having fun tonight. The things that I'm going to be talking about absolutely will damage property, and if it's not yours, please don't damage it. But, you know, if you've got your own security cameras, hey, go nuts. You know, it'd be fun to test it off. So anyway, to begin with, we have to cover some basic science. So you need to remember back to your high school physics classes and whatnot. and here's the first thing we need to cover, and this is actually really important, and it's the crux of the whole talk tonight. So the human eye can detect wavelengths from about 390 nanometers to about 770 nanometers, and I'll say that again. The human eye can detect wavelengths, that's visible light, from about 390 nanometers to about 770 nanometers, you know, give or take a few nanometers. The visible spectrum of light, so the light that's the rainbow kind of thing, runs from about 300 nanometers up to about 1,000 nanometers, where 400 is considered violet and 700 is considered red. So if you Google the electromagnetic spectrum or you Google the visible light spectrum, you're going to see these numbers and it's going to make sense. But what this means is wavelengths below 380 or above 880 can't really be detected by humans. Now, granted, there's probably some people out there that can see it or see shades of it, but the vast majority of us can't see anything below 380 or above 800. Well, ultraviolet light ranges from about 10 nanometers up to about 400, and that's why we can see some of it. So think black lights. Black lights produce UVA long-wave radiation radiation. The wavelength on a black light is usually from 315 to 400 nanometers, and this is why we see black lights as purplish. You know, they don't really look bright, and even a 60-watt black light still appears dim. Well, that's because our eyes are really not detecting all the wavelengths. We're only catching a very small portion of the spectrum. So black lights look at purple, and they look really dim, even though they can be like a 60-watt light bulb. At the other end of the spectrum, you have infrared, and IR ranges from about 700 nanometers up to about 3,000 nanometers. Why is this important? Well, CCD cameras can detect light, and this is, yeah, CCD cameras can detect light from around 200 nanometers up to about 1,100 nanometers. CMOS devices usually run from about 300 nanometers up to 1,200 nanometers. Okay, here's the, like I said, that was kind of the science-y stuff. Here's what it is in English. If we have a light source that emits between 200 nanometers and 380 nanometers, or if we have a light source that emits from 800 nanometers up to 1,000 nanometers, we as humans cannot see it, but the cameras still can. And this is the spectrum we're after. This is what we're going to use to blind the camera, but not us humans. So the first technology that we're going to cover tonight is infrared. And before I get started into that, I know some of y'all have seen the TV shows where the person attaches a bunch of IR LEDs to a hat, or they get a little clip-on super bright LED thing, and it's supposed to create the equivalent of a very bright light that's only visible to the security camera. The person monitoring the camera is supposed to see it, and all they're going to see is like a bright blob, just basically a white orb walking around where the person's head used to be, and someone walking next to the person Wouldn't notice anything. I mean, they just walk by and you're just wearing a black hat at night and, you know, nothing out of the ordinary. But anybody on their phone or, you know, person in the security camera or the ATM camera, all they see is a bright white light. And it's supposed to, it's supposed to like blur out your face or make your face so bright that the camera can't detect you. And it's supposed to be a security thing. This doesn't work. This is not the best solution because most modern cameras and most smartphones have an IR filter on the lens that renders this technique useless. You know, it's very camera-specific, though. Blah, blah, blah, blah. I can't try to say that word. Some people say pacific when they say specific. Anyway, it's very camera-dependent as to where it works or not. So I tried this trick one year. I bought some super bright LEDs that were at 830 nanometers. And I built a driver and a jewel thief and a battery pack and I placed it all into a hat. I had a ball cap. I used the little air holes in the hat to poke the LEDs through so I didn't have to actually cut up the hat or anything. And powered it on. And I couldn't see the lights. But my older camcorder that I was testing with could. That wasn't bright and you know, it was actually really, really kind of a downer because I had invested a lot of time, not a lot of money, but a lot of time in building, like I said, the driving units of Jewel Thief to maximize the battery, stuffing it all in a hat, wiring it all up. I mean, I was really proud of myself building this thing and turned it on and it just didn't work. I mean, it worked. The camera could see the LED, but it wasn't like what you see on TV shows. So, Then I went and I grabbed EK's Apple device. She has an Apple iOS-based device. And I couldn't see the lights at all on that one. And I started researching. I was like, what the heck, man? And I found out that Apple devices have an IR filter painted into the lens. So anybody with an Apple smartphone or iPad or anything like that, if they're trying to look at LEDs, they're not going to see anything because those phones... And those devices filter out IR light. So there goes your security thing right there. And the same thing happened with a few of the other cameras that I tried. I had security cameras around my house. They could see it. And that's kind of what they're designed to do because everybody knows they've got IR lights so your camera can see in the dark. Well, that's what it's using. It's using infrared. And anybody that's anybody, if you go to a security camera that's running IR, you can kind of see it. It's very dim light. red lights, and that's what it's doing. It's broadcasting IR, and it's broadcasting IR on the lower end of the spectrum, down near 800 nanometers, where you can see that. You can see it as a very dim, faint red light, but it's actually a very, very bright infrared light. But anyway, so my security cameras picked it up because that's what they're designed to do. Let's take a break real quick. Let me get a little bit of sip of water, and we will discuss the rest of my experiment here that was a huge crap job, basically. But anyway, G-Man, go ahead and take us to break. I have the security cameras around my house, and when I used the hat, they could pick it up, but it wasn't really bright. It certainly didn't create the orb effect, so I tried it on a few other cameras. I had some color cameras that I tried that did pick it up. They did okay with it. What I did found is that the black and white cameras were greatly affected. So I have an old camera that's camcorder, but it mostly runs black and white. And it picked up the LEDs really well, and it didn't create the blinding effect at all. But some of the cameras I used worked good. Some of the cameras I used didn't do it at all. But you can actually test this if you want to. So you can take a TV remote, which is kind of how the show got its name, you know, the tactical TV remotes, you know, kind of a play on words there. But this is where the idea kind of came from is you take a remote and you take a digital camera or your camcorder or a cell phone, depending on the brand. Again, Apple probably wouldn't do this too well. But point the remote at the camera lens and start pushing buttons on the remote. And what you're going to see is you're going to see the IR LED flashing in the camera screen. And this can be a good way to figure out if the batteries are dead, but it can also be a good way to figure out if your camera has an IR filter on it. But either way. So depending on the camera, like I said, as to whether the LEDs were really bright or kind of just really dim points of light, but either way I did it, everything I tried, nothing, I got the big orb effect. And I bought super bright IR LEDs that I know were supposed to be super, super bright IRs. But they just, I mean, they were like communications-grade LEDs, and they just didn't do it. So not the effect I was going for. Like I said, it was kind of a downer. So anyway. Also, even if you did have LEDs that were bright enough to blind the camera, you need to make sure that the angle of emission is pointed directly at the camera. So this is something else I found, is that when you have LEDs that are on the hat or whatever, if they're not pointed at the camera... the camera doesn't really pick them up so LEDs don't act like a light bulb and they don't illuminate well in all directions. LEDs, believe it or not, LEDs are very directional and they have a very small viewing angle so you would have to ensure that the LED is pointed directly at the camera and if the device that you're using is incapable of hiding your face from every IR camera at every angle at all times then it's not going to work and it's not going to be a valid security device. My recommendation is don't use IR or infrared, that kind of thing, for blinding a camera or creating that orb effect you see online. I think that was probably done for TV and it was probably used a little bit of Hollywood magic to go along with it, so I don't know. I'm not saying that that's not the case because if you look online, there are websites that show that and maybe they figured out something that I don't know, but either way, there are some other methods we can use. And the next one up is ultraviolet light. Now, this one was kind of fun to play with. I have a really nice tan, and my teeth have never been whiter, and I made some real good friends with a bunch of hippies after experimenting with this one. And I made sure to wear sunglasses, so, EK, don't fret. I had sunglasses on, and they were UVA, UVB, protection. So I didn't go blind. I didn't have any problems with that. Um, so what I did for this one is I managed to find me a 60 watt fluorescent UVA light with a wavelength centered on 350 nanometers. Um, when I turned it on and powered it up, I could see that it had a very, very dim purplish hue. And when I look at it with the light, or when I looked at the light with most of my cameras, they all detected it. So I tried the, um, I have a DSLR camera, and when I was just using it as is, it was pretty bright in the camera, and it provided the blinding effect that kind of was after. I put the UV filter on my DSLR, and it filtered it out, and that's kind of expected. So, you know, a lot of cameras, you can buy IR filters, and you can buy polarization filters, and you can buy UV filters, and those actually do work. So this is a viable option. You know, if you can figure out a way to make a portable UV light filter This does work. You do blind the cameras with this one, and it creates that orb effect. The problem is that fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent lights, the CFL bulbs, they're kind of out since you would look a little weird, and people are actually going to take notice of you. If you're walking around with a CFL screw-type bulb sticking out of the top of your hat, and it's a black light, Number one, people are going to be looking at you weird because of the bulb. But number two, you're going to be illuminating. You know, a lot of the objects around you are going to phosphor, which means they light up in black light. They're going to phosphoresce, and people are going to notice you. And so if you're trying to do something nefarious, I wouldn't do that. And, you know, having a fluorescent tube sticking out of the top of your head or whatever, you know, a six-foot black light on the top of your head that's lit up, also you're going to get some weird looks with that. Right. Those two ideas are kind of out. But this leaves us with UV LEDs. Now, I didn't try these. I didn't experiment with LEDs. But in theory, they should be a better alternative because when you buy UV lights, they're between 360 to 370 nanometers. And you want to stay away from stuff on Amazon. Don't get anything that says blacklight on. Don't get anything on Amazon. You know, the stuff that they use for germs, well, I'll take that back. Germicidal is going to be a different animal. But the black lights for looking at driver's license, black lights for hardening nails, like fingernail polish stuff, and black lights that you're going to put in the room and get a bunch of colorful posters around, those aren't going to work because... I'm going to venture to say 90% of everything that's sold on Amazon and available is going to be at 395 nanometers, which means the human eye can see it. And what we're wanting to do is we're wanting stuff that's not visible. So we have to go down a few nanometers, up a few nanometers. Yeah, we have to go up a few nanometers. We got to go down to around 360, 365 is what we want. So I found a professional source called Mouser, M-O-U-S-E-R.com, Mouser.com. They actually have UV lights for medical, industrial, printing applications, and the emission angle on these things is like 135 degrees. So if you went on Mouser.com and you looked at UV LEDs, there's the Vishay, V-I-S-H-A-Y-V-L-M-U-1-6-1-0. So, mousner.com and then Vichay VLMU1610. Because of the wide viewing angle and because UV light disperses a lot easier, with these, they don't have to be pointed directly at the camera like ours does. So, making a hat of high-intensity UV lights, this is probably an option. So, you know, I didn't experiment with it. I encourage all of y'all to try it. You know, get out there, go to... Go find you some professional, you know, industrial strength LEDs, UV LEDs. Make sure the wavelength is like 360, maybe 370 nanometers, something that the humans can't see. And try it, you know, see if it blinds the cameras. And again, use your own cameras because we don't want to destroy public property. Can't do that yet. Well, barring IR and barring UV, what do we do next? Well, this is the fun one. Lasers. Sharks. With laser pointers on their heads. Now, word of safety, as with UV, you can damage your eyes for being stupid. So use some general common sense when you're using these lasers, and UV light will damage your eye. So what do we start with? Well, we start with the humble laser pointer. That can be obtained from anywhere. So blinding a camera with a laser is known as zapping. Some people call it dazzling, but I think the copula term is zapping. And it's possible because cameras are not perfect machines. When a camera is blinded, several things occur. The first thing that occurs in a camera is called blooming, like blooming onion. Blooming is a technical term for when a portion of the camera's sensor is overloaded, resulting in leakage to neighboring regions. And you can see this if you're ever in a dark room with a camera and you light a candle... and then you move the candle around, you'll see blobs or like a comet tail. There's tails that come around the flame. Or just the flame by itself in a very, very dark room is going to cause different images on the screen. Well, that's blooming because the electrons are getting overloaded, and they're spilling over into other regions of the sensor, and it doesn't know how to interpret that. The next one is lens flare. Now, this is caused by unwanted light bouncing around in all the enclosure, you know, the glass and the metal and whatnot, inside the camera. And if you've watched the Star Trek movies, you know that Abrams likes to make use of lens flare. It can be used for dramatic effect. But the reason why lens flare occurs is because due to the sensitivity of the optical sensor, it's possible to temporarily blind or even damage them. So what happens is If you have a camera and you're pointing it at the sun and you've got like a really, really bright object, you cause blindness in the other part of the camera because of lens flare. Basically, the light reflects off and does some funky things. But anyway, so lens flare is an option to blind cameras. The third one that can occur actually occurs in the electronics that are downstream from the camera. So if you have, again, darkroom candle, When you have one portion of an image that is unnaturally brighter than its immediate surroundings, the electronics can get confused. So if you have a flashlight and you go outside and you shine a flashlight at the camera, the brighter image is going to confuse the electronics. And what can happen is you get large digital what they call pixelation or like blocky looking artifacts on the image. And the best way to do this is a laser pointer. So you carry a small laser pointer, and those things are ideal because they don't draw a lot of attention. The beam is relatively invisible unless it's foggy or dusty. You've seen it. You take a laser pointer. You don't see the beam itself. You just see where it hits whatever, unless there's fog or dust or whatever, and then it illuminates the beam. But what's cool about these is at distances of more than 20 or 30 feet, the beam actually spreads out enough to cover the entire aperture of the camera. And the great thing about lasers is that the light is collimated, meaning the light does not lose any of its brightness as it travels through empty space. So the intensity of the light is not attenuated like an LED would be. So, you know, if you have an LED right up close to the camera, the LED is really bright. But if you move the LED away from the camera, it gets dimmer and dimmer and dimmer. Lasers don't do that. Lasers are very bright even at far distances. So a little bit of science on the lasers. Most common laser pointers are considered class 3A lasers. They usually have a power of like 1 to 5 milliwatts. And they're not supposed to burn. They're not supposed to damage skin. They can produce spot blindness under the right conditions. They can be hazardous to your vision if like you're driving or flying an aircraft or something like that. You know, there's nothing permanent with the small laser pointers. It just temporarily kind of blinds you, but then you kind of get over it. The big ones, though, that are really fun are the Class 4 lasers. Now, these are pretty easy to get, even though they're supposed to be registered as weapons, because they are definitely dangerous. So a quick search and $ 150 will get you a pretty decent 2-watt Class 4 laser that will burn through things. A $ 600 laser is like the Odin 5-watt blue laser, that will definitely destroy a camera and blind it because it melts the optical sensor and sets fire to the thing and burns through the circuit board. So those are actually pretty cool to get. If you can find you a class 4 laser, like 1, 2, 3, 4, class 4 laser, those are where you're getting into 1 watts, 2 watts, 5 watts. Those are some serious burning power lasers. Those are the ones they use to pop balloons and light matches and set paper on fire. And if you shine one of those into a camera sensor, you're definitely going to blind the camera. You're going to blind it permanently. You're going to burn through the optical sensor. You're probably going to destroy the circuit board and, you know, might not want to do that on something that ain't yours. But anyway, again, this is all hypothetical. We're just thinking out loud. We're having fun because you can really, really hurt people with a 5-watt laser. As I said, this will absolutely set things on fire. And the problem with these is that the beam is visible, especially if your target, you know, it lights up. So when you shine a 5-watt laser across the room, a lot of times the beam itself is visible, and especially wherever you're hitting, it's going to light up. So, you know, it may not be the best of the world to have like a bright, bright blue laser or a bright, bright green laser trying to destroy cameras because it's pretty easy to trace the beam back to you for people around you. So, you know, like the camera itself that you're trying to target will see you for a little bit, but then if there's other cameras around you, they're going to see that beam, they're going to see you, and then they're going to know to follow you. Well, what do we do? We get an IR laser or a UV laser. So the strongest UV lasers have a wavelength of around 30, excuse me, 337.1, maybe 357.6 nanometres. Those are kind of like the really strong UV lasers. Um, infrared lasers run around, uh, I think 1330 nanometers to maybe 1550 nanometers. Uh, this makes, you know, targeting the camera a little bit harder because you can't see anything, but this is all in theory anyway, so it doesn't matter. Um, If you were going to do this professionally, you might have to have a laser pointer attached to your laser so that you could see where your damaging laser, where your UV or IR laser was actually pointing at. Anyway, it may make the It may make it kind of hard to blind or dazzle the camera if you can't see the beam itself. But then again, you know, the laser is going to be the most effective. And the hard part is going to be aiming it. So if you're holding a laser in your hand, and you can try this with a laser pointer, you hold it in your hand and you try to hit something, you know, 5, 10 feet away, the beam is going to be pretty steady. But if you try to hit something across the street 100 feet away, that's going to be real hard, especially like if you're trying to shine something on the size of a quarter 100 feet away. you're going to have a lot of shake. 500 feet and you're going to introduce a ton of shake and you're actually going to see how bad your hand actually shakes even though you think you're okay. And in these cases you need to use a tripod. So take a tripod, strap the camera to it, and you can actually use the tripod to move, pan, and tilt the camera in order to aim it better. And then once you get really good with having one color, add some more colors. So if you've got red, add green or add blue or add UV or add IR to the different colors. The reason you want to use like a multicolored laser is because a lot of brand new surveillance cameras on the market now have what they call adaptive filtering. And so the software and the camera can actually filter out certain wavelengths on demand. And the military has been using this for a while, and some consumer products have picked up on it. And so they've kind of figured out people use laser pointers to blind the camera, and they still want to be able to see images. So they've incorporated this technology. The military uses what they call wavelength agile lasers. And what those are, those are lasers that randomly change colors. And the idea is to render filtering useless. Apparently the Army likes to blind cameras with lasers. Imagine that. But anyway, so try different colors if you're trying to actually blind a camera, different colors so that if it's got adaptive technologies, we can get around it. But anyway, well, let's get real for a moment. That was kind of all in jest, and I wanted to have a little bit of fun with that one. But in reality, we can't go around destroying cameras. We can't go around blinding cameras and destroying property, at least not until after the apocalypse happens. So in the meantime, barring destroying stuff, how do we deal with people watching us? How do we deal with the license plate readers and the traffic cameras and CCTV, that's closed-circuit television, and the facial recognition? You know, there's things now where you walk into a store and they actually– it's like Minority Report where it's not scanning your pupils, but you walk into stores and it recognizes your face and– starts to sell you targeted ads. I mean, casinos have been using this for a long time. I think it's Griffin Software, I think, made this back in the 90s where they had casinos out in Vegas had facial recognition where they knew known crooks. They could detect them a lot faster. But anyway, so some things that we want to try that are not illegal, well, are not damaging to the camera. They may not be legal in your jurisdiction or your part of the world. If you're listening to us internationally, they're legal in the U.S. They're probably legal in most states. But anyway, check your local laws for your state and or country or parish for wherever you're at before you get this stuff. The first one is sunglasses. They actually have glasses now that are being built to defeat CCT cameras. In December of 2016, a form of anti-CCTV and facial recognition sunglasses came onto the market. They're called refracticles, R-E-F-L-E-C-T-A-C-L-E-S. And they were invented by a custom spectacle craftsman based in Chicago named Scott Urbane, or Urban. And what they do is they reflect infrared and visible light, which makes the user's face a blur to the cameras. So they're not actually using... Infrared LEDs, to do it, they're actually using a mirrored finish to try to reflect back. And a mirrored finish would probably do about the same thing. These claim to make yourself a white blur. When I checked out the website, of course it was like the other ones. It just shows the white blur thing, but we'll see. Kickstarter, they did a Kickstarter and they met their goal. If you want to check them out, they're reflecticles. R-E-F-L-E-C-T-A-T. If you Google that or go to there, you can get it. Another one is the URME personal mask. That's Uniform Romeo Mic Echo Personal Surveillance Mask, URME. These are a little creepy. They are actually a resin cast of another person's face. So somebody took their face, stuck it in a 3D scanner, and made a 3D image of their face, a color 3D image of their face, and then they cut out the eyes and the nose and the mouth hole, and then they sell them, and they're about $ 200. If you search for the URME, and again, that's Uniform Romeo Mike Echo, if you search for those masks, you can find them. I think URMESurveillance.com is the website. They have a cheaper version on Amazon. I didn't see how much the price was, but it's a paper version of the same thing where there's a face printed on a piece of paper that I guess you punch out the eye holes and you put it on. It's good, but I would think this would be an escape and evasion type thing. You have the plastic version. If you are being tracked, if you are being chased and you need to get out of Dodge or If you have committed a crime, God forbid, and you're trying to do something, again, this is all hypothetical, don't be evil, don't commit crime. But if you've done something and you need to avoid cameras, this might be a good option. Just keep the paper version in your backpack, and when you need to, you slap it on. So anyway, some of you are kind of lost on this one. So the first thing that we covered is, number one, this is all hypothetical, and we don't want to really do this for real. Number two, Using infrared doesn't really work for blinding cameras. Despite what you see online about the little bright white orb, that doesn't really work. Number two is ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet UV LEDs, trying to say that. UV LEDs that are used for medical and industrial that have a pretty wide viewing angle and have a wavelength of around 360, 370 nanometers. Those are probably going to be very, very plausible for using this. The next one is using lasers, and a laser can blind a camera. A laser is absolutely used to blind cameras. You want to make sure that you get a UV or an infrared laser, because those will be ones that will blind the camera, but nobody's going to see the beam. Nobody's going to see where the beam is striking the camera. You need to mount it on a tripod if you're going to do that, and because it's illegal to destroy stuff, Here are some options that aren't going to destroy the property. The first one we had was called reflecticles. Those are sunglasses that reflect UV light and visible light. The second was the URME personal surveillance mask. The other one that I'm not a fan of is using makeup. So there's a technique of applying makeup to... in a pixelated pattern, and that's supposed to mess with facial recognition software. Basically what you're doing is you're going to paint brown and tan squares on your face, you know, around your eyes, on your nose, on your forehead. And if you just, if you Google, like, pixelation or pixelated pattern, you'll see it. You know, this may be more for one for the girls or, you know, some of the. I wouldn't do it unless I, you know, really, really needed it. But anyway... It's not like you're applying makeup, makeup. You're just basically putting on camouflage. But it's not like camouflage like you would think. It's camouflage to a computer. And the way you camouflage a computer is you use tans and creams and browns in square patterns to break up your facial features and for the camera to zoom in on that. And... In looking for that and covering all this stuff, I found something that was really interesting, and it's called Glamiflage, like glamour and camouflage. And it's a product called Real Face, R-E-A-L-F-A-C-A, and it's Glamiflage. Like I said, the word glamour and the word camouflage mash together. Basically what it is, it's a shmega, a really big bandana, like a shemog. And it's got pictures of different people on it. So it's not pixelated. It's not like a... a bandana pattern. Basically what it is is it's a scarf, like a covering, or like I said, a shamag, but it's got pictures of the one I found was like had Michael Jackson, had Obama printed on it. You can get one with other famous people and celebrities. And the idea is that the software... gets confused seeing the picture. So you're wearing a picture of somebody else on your back, you know, all over your face and whatnot. And when they zoom in, the camera picks up a face, recognizes a face. The facial recognition software says, oh, there is a face. I recognize the face. And then it tries to match the face. And of course, it's a celebrity. So whoever's doing scanning gets the celebrity image, not your image. So anyway, that's called Real Face, if you search that one, like I said, you'll know it because you get the picture. There's a scarf with Michael Jackson and Obama. Their face is printed all over it. So that one was interesting. But anyway, well, that's basically it. Like I said, this was going to be kind of a fun show. A lot of us science, a lot of us going through stuff. As I said before, don't break stuff. Don't go out and destroy it. If you want to test it with your own things, you're more than welcome to try the UV LEDs, try the laser pointers, a low-wattage laser pointer to see how well it works. These are just ideas for fodder. We never know when we may need the technology. Hopefully we never will need the technology to learn how to do stuff, but if you know how to do this kind of stuff to evade capture or whatever hypothetical scenario you can think of, There you go. But anyway, if I've left out something or if I've forgotten something or if you've got a better idea, hit me up, man. As I always say, if anybody has any questions or wants to correct me, shoot me an email. Hit me up on Facebook. I always welcome constructive criticism. Believe me, you can tell me anything online on my email or in Facebook, and I'll respond to you. Don't forget, tomorrow night, Dave, Dave, our NBC guy, he always has a really good show. That show starts at 8 p.m. Eastern. That's 7, 6 Pacific, something in there. 1 a.m. Zulu, I know that. But anyway, 8 p.m. Eastern is Dave the NBC guy. Also, don't forget, Monday nights we have the live show. We have Alan on now. Alan Getz with Behind the News. His show starts at 9 p.m. on Monday nights. That's another live show. I really enjoyed that one that he had. He had a decent show. That one was pretty, pretty good. All right, well, thanks, everyone. Have a great evening. I will talk to you all in the next month because I am going to a security conference next week. I will actually be flying all over the country attending a cybersecurity conference, and then my next show will probably be something to do with that. So we'll be doing cybersecurity and, like, Internet security here coming up real, real soon. So look forward to me doing a show on cybersecurity and whatnot. Thanks, everyone. Have a great evening. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. See our hosts, show schedules, archive programs, and more at PrepperBroadcasting.com. Thanks for listening.