Gait biometric systems capture step patterns using video images and then convert the collated data into a mathematical equation. Gait as a biometric measure can be influenced by several factors, including footwear, terrain, fatigue, and injury.
...Love this sub, I don't have hardcore needs in terms of privacy, but wanted to know for people that enjoy a covid mask, their opinion on Gait Rec. Technologies, and does any one have any intel in throwing these systems off, whether or not that is impossible?
You can very easily fool the machine into recognizing John Cleese.
haha curious if this would work although in that article i linked to :
"Your gait is like a fingerprint, unique and impossible to falsify."
I’m sure the companies selling the software want people to think that. Automatic Fingerprint ID has enough false positives, I can’t imagine this wouldn’t be worse.
If you walk without rhythm then you won't attract the worn.
Knew this was coming at scale sooner or later. Something of a concern to me personally, because my own gait is particularly identifiable to those who know me.
Aside from footwear, and possibly using various inserts to change the way one's foot falls on the ground, I don't have any obvious thoughts for defeating this unfortunately. The problem with any sort of inserts is that they're likely to cause other problems over time for the same reason they could theoretically mask one's gait - unnatural walking tends to be bad for the body on the whole, and to cause more widespread problems over time.
This.
If you only need to disrupt gait recognition for a short period of time, then something as low-tech as some pebbles in your shoe would suffice. But there aren't any solutions that can fool it long-term.
very much so, scared that will happen in the west one day...if it isn't already 👀
If the cameras they use for this are cheap enough to not have an IR filter on them you could maybe blind them with some bright IR LEDs while remaining relatively inconspicuous as long as no one points their phone camera at you.
Depends on the tech, but essentially you need to adjust stride length, foot pronation/supination, knee extension and a bunch of things about hip alignment.
Someone walking while looking at their phone will ID differently than the same person walking fast while trying not to run.
BUT, in the same context with the same footwear, these systems are pretty accurate. So in places with CCTV, they can be pretty quick at tagging and filtering regular repeated activity. That way, it’s the unrecognized gaits that get flagged up for investigation.
