Grimreaper@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 hours agoHow successful would a masked vigilante be in real life?message-squaremessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up161arrow-down1message-squareHow successful would a masked vigilante be in real life?Grimreaper@sopuli.xyz to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 hours agomessage-square77fedilinkfile-text
In real life, if someone got a black hoodie and a mask and decided to “fight crime”, how successful would they be?
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·20 hours ago 21st century: without active electronic/optics countermeasures, it’s all over, anonymity of secret identity impossible to keep What?! Mask on. No cell phone. Uncomfortable shoes to throw off gait recognition. Changing into it after you leave home, changing out of it before you go back. No car, no Uber, no public transport. It’s literally that easy. Unless you’re killing oligarchs, they wouldn’t catch you for anything else if taking those precautions. You don’t need to block every camera, just be unrecognizable when on camera, and have a place to lose the camera and change identities.
minus-squareKomodo Rodeo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·20 hours agoDescribe for me how far from a city center or incident you think that you would have to travel - minus the car/uber/taxi/bus/train. 5, 10, 15, 20+ miles until zero cameras and a Superman telephone booth costume change?
minus-squareLukewarmNinja 🇨🇦🏴☠️@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours ago1/ Underground entrance to a base of operations with multiple above ground exits. 2/ Any alleyway without cameras, wear the uniform over street clothes, put the uniform in a pocket backpack that packs down very small when empty.
What?!
Mask on.
No cell phone.
Uncomfortable shoes to throw off gait recognition.
Changing into it after you leave home, changing out of it before you go back. No car, no Uber, no public transport.
It’s literally that easy.
Unless you’re killing oligarchs, they wouldn’t catch you for anything else if taking those precautions.
You don’t need to block every camera, just be unrecognizable when on camera, and have a place to lose the camera and change identities.
Describe for me how far from a city center or incident you think that you would have to travel - minus the car/uber/taxi/bus/train. 5, 10, 15, 20+ miles until zero cameras and a Superman telephone booth costume change?
1/ Underground entrance to a base of operations with multiple above ground exits.
2/ Any alleyway without cameras, wear the uniform over street clothes, put the uniform in a pocket backpack that packs down very small when empty.