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Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems

There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal…

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IP Geolocation Is Wrong — Why VPN Detection Fails 90% Of Us

security, #api, #cybersecurity, #webdev Last Tuesday, a paying customer in Austin couldn't finish checkout. Our fraud engine had flagged her IP as a "high-risk VPN." She was on Spectrum. At home.

  • Customer in Austin faced checkout issues due to flagged VPN IP.
  • Stale database incorrectly marked /24 range as datacenter.
  • Modern IP checks should offer reverse-IP discovery and VPN flags.

7 n8n workflows that actually pay for themselves (from a solo automation agency)

I build automations for agencies for a living. All of it on n8n, most of it self-hosted. Over a couple of years the same handful of workflows keep coming up, because they remove real hours of manual…

  • First workflow auto-creates projects and folders when a deal is won
  • Second workflow schedules and delivers branded weekly/monthly reports
  • Seventh workflow synchronizes data between tools, preventing data discrepancies