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    4 days ago

    You know, I was thinking the other day about how it’s such a shame that ICE and other federal agents are permitted to wear face coverings so they can act anonymously and follow even the most blatantly illegal orders without the slightest fear of public outrage being directed at them personally.

    It’s just so cowardly to collect a pay check for something you’re so ashamed of doing that you have to cover your face. It’s like getting paid to march with the KKK.

    Anyway, everybody is carrying an infrared camera that can see through face coverings and pretty reliably identify all of the cowards, even when they’re wearing their masks or through things like glasses, perhaps including face shields.

    We just haven’t started using our phones to do this because the need has not been great enough. I’m sure it would give them pause to be profiled beating people in California and then linked to their true identity and home address back in their hometown later.

    I am no expert in this, but I know it’s been studied pretty extensively.

    Here is what I mean… With low end smartphones: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-71629-7_50

    General infrared identification techniques: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227232627_Infrared_Identification_of_Faces_and_Body_Parts