yes but these are designed to deter a specific type of intrusion from paparazzi, hence their popularity with celebrities. if it was effective at all times, it would be blinding to the naked eye, which would limit its usefulness to most people.
reflective particles in the garment nullify flash photography by fucking with the exposure to wash out other elements of the subject
here’s an example photo of Trevor Noah wearing one of these scarves without and with flash:
according to those congresspersons who were granted limited-time access to the unredacted files, Dump’s name alone came up over a million times. he was clearly very close to the center of the web with the child-ensnaring spider himself. impossible to know for certain whether his personal redactions outweigh all others combined without having the full files released but that the possibility exists is damning enough for me.
even the full name made no sense after he shamelessly added his name to it:
The Donald J Trump and The John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
obvious to any observer that he’s just trying to clout farm by stealing credit for the work of others, as usual with this fool of a took
CLASS is in session!
well get there Eventually
ok do you really have to shit on America like that? we all know things are bad…
not necessarily. they’ve done enough damage to fuck the rest of us over for decades. we’re already mega fucked but it’s going to keep getting a lot worse, much faster, especially once a clear end is in sight. the way heavily addicted drug users will binge and purge when they know the ruse is up.
i’m sure that’s a fine setup for the average home user but devices that use proprietary firmware like that aren’t conducive to a security-first design where you hold all the keys. because it’s designed to be secure, even from you, it always has an asterisk on it (network is secure* according to eero). that and you have no way of verifying what data it’s phoning home (and a lot of devices soft brick themselves if you cut their connection to the cloud).
the most useful advice i can generally offer is to add a proper network security device running pfSense or OpenWRT to seize some control over internet access and DNS resolution and to implement VLAN segmentation to keep trusted devices secure from trusted* and untrusted devices.
get your priorities knocked out before you start cuz you become a passenger in the metaphorical ride of life once you bring children onboard
i have the 2024 model and it gets updates semi-regularly
if you’re looking to evade passive facial detection by smart glasses, a facial covering like a surgical mask is probably the lowest profile solution, followed by those bulky IR-proof glasses like what Reflectacles sells. maybe a combination of both but at some point it becomes conspicuous to have your face covered so fully all the time, not to mention impractical for socialization.