Today I was pondering what seems to be a common issue here. People either having to skip out from around doors or leaving hardware behind. Being the clever guy I am my first thought was that most of the hotels that I have stayed in have the rooms on both sides of the hallways, thus been artificially and more importantly, statically lit. That is the angle of the light falling on any given spot is not going to change.
This got me to thinking, gee, could one perhaps take some pictures of the said hallway, and some white contact paper, and print the pattern of the carpet on the contact paper, and than stick that on the recording device. My guess is with a speckled carpet that would be really hard to see. If we are talking a little USB stick, it is physically small and has a low profile to begin with.
However, some folks at MIT have taken this idea to a new level. Here is a rundown on their research: http://camouflage.csail.mit.edu/ and here is a cool video. It took me a few times watching it carefully to spot the cube in most of the scenes. There are a couple scenes where I still have not spotted the damn thing yet. Here is link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... NlE_hzqdss
Now for the neat part. If you are a linux hacker, they have a link to the code. I am heading out of town in a couple of days, but I am really interested in playing with this. If you are interested in this, please drop me a note. I think for inside a hotel with fixed lighting, and a physically small device, this could be really cool.
Oh, here is a link to the code on github: https://github.com/andrewowens/camo
Hiding things in plain sight
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magnate
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I think this could be tougher than you think. You'd never get an exact fit, because you might misalign the recorder, or the carpet might be slightly weird in front of a different door. Your best bet is to just get it "close enough". Same color as the base color of the carpet, or a similar pattern. But, then once it's inevitably found, it's going to be very clear that it was not meant to be found, rather than the usb stick dropped by chance.
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AaronSlory
Hiding things in plain sight
Has anyone done this on Windows 10 yet? Do these things still apply there, or has it all changed?