<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>01100011</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if it would be effective at hiding you beyond the next few years when more comprehensive systems are in place, but I think a simple circuit that randomly blinks an IR LED would be handy.  Something like an an LED throwie, but with random cycling.  Put a bunch of them around and you&amp;#x27;ll probably screw up most cheap CCDs by forcing them to constantly adjust their exposure.  Sure, a cheap filter can defeat them...  But eventually we&amp;#x27;ll be in a world where there is no escape from integrated surveillance and jamming&amp;#x2F;hiding just raises flags.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Hide from a Drone</title><url>https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance-143078</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jacobwilliamroy</author><text>For reference here is footage from an apache gun killing a civilian reporter in Baghdad in 2007:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;w&amp;#x2F;index.php?title=File%3ACollateralMurder.ogv&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;commons.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;w&amp;#x2F;index.php?title=File%3AColla...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;m fairly certain this is what most drone operators will see on the screen. This video is over 13 years old though, so current optics are probably much more advanced than what was deployed in iraq. Near-future drones can also probably use 5G networks to transmit higher resolution videos. I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone can hide from this, even if they don&amp;#x27;t have anything to hide. False positives seem extremely likely and if the domestic drones won&amp;#x27;t shoot, they still will very likely be reporting a lot of crimes and violations that didn&amp;#x27;t actually happen. The guy in the video who the operators claimed was carrying an AK-47 that was also an RPG, was actually a reporter carrying a camera and laptop.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How to Hide from a Drone</title><url>https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance-143078</url></story>