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Friday, June 9, 2023

He won't suspect a thing

found on Reddit

I could see hiding packages from porch pirates, but hiding them from an occupant represents a much different threat model. In the event that you really need to hide packages from your husband, it might be better to use a strategy that focuses on you retrieving them before your husband has a chance to become aware of them rather than hoping the delivery person finds a good hiding spot that you can find but your husband can't. 

Monday, June 5, 2023

Low Profile Fail

from here and here

Learning that a bunch of drugs were seized with Nazi flags on them really only brings to mind one question: Who the fuck is putting Nazi flags on things in 2023? You've got to be living under a really big rock to think people in the outside world are just going to let that slide. You could put the Nazi flag on peanut butter and it's still going to draw suspicion.

Friday, April 28, 2023

Can you spot the big cat?

found on Izismile

Hiding in plain sight has benefits for both attackers and defenders. That's why nature is full of examples of camouflage.

Friday, April 14, 2023

Not so secret entrance

found on Acid Cow

Someone is going to have to do a better job of hiding their secret doors.

Friday, January 27, 2023

Don't shoot! I surrender!

found on Reddit

There's probably a lot wrong with this idea, like the fact that it will make it unsafe for unarmed bystanders because everyone will have to be assumed to be armed with one of these and armed forces would have to shoot them as soon as they tried to raise their arms to surrender. It's never a good idea to make real surrender less safe.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Should have called it "Homework"

from here and here

A 14 year old would do a better job at hiding their porn stash than FTX did at hiding their covert criminal communications. The complete failure of imagination is mind boggling. No wonder they got caught.

Monday, October 31, 2022

It looks so realistic

found on Grateful

Not that I'm condoning killing people (goodness knows there's enough death going on already), but this would be an excellent example of using cover to disguise or otherwise hide your activities.

Friday, September 30, 2022

At least it's well labeled

found on Izismile

If you see a bright red plane in the sky with the word "SURVEILLANCE" on it, it would probably be a good time to stop doing shady shit.

Friday, March 18, 2022

They won't ever make your butt look big

found on eBaum's World

Little did anyone know that it wasn't actually camouflage pants but rather a portal belt. 

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Stealth level 100

found on eBaum's World

When I was that age I would not have had the balls to try to hide out in the open like this. I did win a game of hide and seek by hiding underneath a couch, but this little chameleon figured out how to blend in right in plain sight.

Friday, February 4, 2022

Atlas Obscura : The CIA's Fake Scrotum That Hid A Radio


Watch on YouTube

That's one way to showcase how unglamorous being a spy is. I hope they at least removed the existing hair before they glued that thing in place.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Death defying stealth

found on Reddit

I suppose most defensive stealth is attempting to avoid death, but usually it doesn't involve becoming temporarily dead in the process. 

Friday, December 31, 2021

Car thieves hate this one weird trick


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So let's say you've stuck an AirTag on a car that you want to steal and you follow the signal to the owners home. What happens when you can't find the car, or even the garage? Well, I guess you're out the cost of an AirTag. 

In reality, though, I suspect the driveway in place of a grassy yard is going to give away the car's location. It's still quite a well executed trick, though.

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Homework could get a lot more secure

from here

Banning backpacks really doesn't seem like an effective countermeasure to prevent gun violence. If you try to ban everything that a student might hide a gun inside then pretty soon kids will have to come to school naked.

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Camouflage Socks (in case normal ones aren't easy enough to lose)

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I frequently joke about camouflage items being invisible, but in this case if you're the kind of person who would wear camouflage socks then probably all your other clothes are camouflage as well, and in that case good luck differentiating these socks from all the other camo items in your laundry.

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Not exactly a clean getaway


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Imagine sitting in a plastic box full of dirty diapers and used kitty litter in the blazing sun for half an hour and then still getting caught. It's enough to make one reconsider one's life choices.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

How to hide from your human on vet day

from here and here (image source)

Pretty sure a large breed dog wouldn't be able to pull this off quite as convincingly, but maybe they'd be able to blend into something else.

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The turtle's got it's eye on you

found on eBaum's World

There isn't really any such thing as a security camera. Camera's don't make things more secure, they don't prevent unwanted outcomes, they simply help in catching people after the fact. The best they can hope to do as far as prevention is to serve as a deterrent, but for that to work they have to be plainly visible, not hidden in a mural. People are less likely to be deterred by a turtle looking at them than they are by an obvious camera looking at them.

Monday, December 14, 2020

If James Bond were a lot older

found on Izismile

This looks like something you could have imagined seeing in one of the early Bond films, and yet by that point this would have been old news.

Monday, November 9, 2020

At least the NPCs won't find it

from here and here (image source)

The problem with using video game logic to keep things secure (besides the inaccuracies in video games) is the fact that games are designed so that you can win, so things like hidden doorways aren't actually hidden all that well.

This really will keep things secure from NPCs, though, because NPCs don't exist in the real world.