In recent years, I've seen people use projectors at night to protest policies: projecting slogans, images, etc., using a normal projector against the wall of the target of a protest (embassies, government buildings, prisons/detainment facilities, corporate headquarters, etc.).

Here's an example, but I've seen lots of other examples. And even outside of protest, people have been doing ridiculous things with 3D projection, like this guy animating a hotel cuck chair (SFW).

This got me to thinking: if the image recognition of Flock and similar cameras is just an AI image recognition function (using ImageNet or something like that) being run on captured video, what's stopping people from projecting false data onto streets and sidewalks in a way that tricks the Flock camera into recording false people/vehicles in places where there was no person/vehicle? Including fake license plates, etc.?

Seems like an attack vector for some kind of denial of service attack, like putting fake faces and license plates all over.

Is there anyone doing this? Would it be possible, at least at night, for certain camera locations and angles?

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know that Flock cameras are using any depth-sensing hardware, so it stands to reason that they could be defeated with 2D projections.

One issue that you run into, however, is that these cameras are typically pointed at places where people are. That means that you'd have to be projecting these images onto places where people are going to be. This could be disorientating on pedestrian areas, and could be catastrophic on roadways.

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