Friday, October 1, 2010

If you are engaging in autonomous civil disobedience...

... and you don’t plan on being arrested, you should conceal your face using a bandanna, or other cloth. When combined with a hat and some sunglasses, this getup makes you nearly impossible to identify via facial recognition.
Wearing a bandanna can make you a target for police, since they associate it with radicals, so only wear one if you are actually doing something illegal and concealing your identity makes sense.
Gas masks and ski masks certainly conceal your identity well, but they look extremely militant, and tend to both incite police violence and frighten other protesters. Unless you plan on directly and forcibly confronting the police, I would not recommend wearing a gas mask. If you think that there will be teargas, you can always have a pair of swim goggles and a bandanna soaked in apple cider vinegar in your pocket.
Also remember that the foam in ski masks and ski goggles will trap teargas and other gasses, after a while this will expose your face to more teargas than wearing nothing at all. Swimming goggles are therefore more advisable.

from stealthiswiki.org

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