Nine Gifts the NSA Will Hate

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/12/christmas-presents-nsa

In the wake of the Edward Snowden-enabled revelations about the reach of the surveillance state, your more privacy-sensitive loved ones may have spent the year discovering TOR, making the jump to mesh networks or encrypted email, or mumbling about converting their nest egg to Bitcoin.

But now that gift-giving season is well upon us, what's left to get the security-obsessed person who already has it all? Tin foil hats have a timeless appeal, but here's a short list of slightly more practical devices:

http://vimeo.com/81324457

London artist James Bridle has thought up a wearable device known as a "surveillance spaulder," which—through infrared detection—would alert the wearer to surveillance cameras by triggering a small muscle reaction [CAN WE SAY "spasm"]. While not "currently a functioning device," he claims the device is more than possible given the correct components, power supply, and a little bit of tinkering.


ANTI-FACIAL RECOGNITION HATS


Concerned about having your face detected in photos or by security cameras? If Anonymous' advice of wearing a mask or continuously tilting your head more than 15 degrees seems a little cumbersome, try the hactivists' suggested DIY project of making an infrared LED-fitted hat to tuck under the Christmas tree.


CAMERA-CONFUSING EYEWEAR




Not the DIY type? Professor Isao Echizen at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics may have the answer: eyewear that transmits near-infrared rays to render the wearer's face undetectable to cameras. Not only will this give someone on your list that cool cyberpunk look, but by keeping their image from being captured it will be harder to track their movements.

[Pholus]

1. Most of it won't work, like the active camera armor. Like the glasses though...

I'm just not the makeup type....