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Polarized Screens to Hide Sensitive Data

Posted by michael on from the 3d-shark-effects-not-included dept.

NiugMan writes "NewScientist.com reports that Iizuka Denki Kogyo, a Tokio-based tech company has developed a monitor which appears to be blank if you stare at it with your eyes. Only by wearing a pair of polarised glasses you see stuff on it. The idea is to protect sensitive data from unauthorised personnel. Please take your special glasses with you when you take a coffee-break."

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  1. Quick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone warn these guys before they are locked away for selling hacking tools.

  2. Be careful though... by Canis · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...if you go outside with the glasses and start checking out the billboards, you might be in for a bit of a surprise.

    OBEY!
    CONSUME!
    MARRY AND REPRODUCE!

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  3. I can see it now... by NineNine · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Why in the hell is my computer always turned off when I get back from taking a leak?"

    "I don't know, Bob. I had to look at it for something, it was off, and I tried to turn it on, but all that happened was that "power" light turned off."

    Yeah. Brilliant idea.

  4. Put it to some use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "To others, you would look like someone with sunglasses working in front of a totally white screen,"
    They needn't know that I'm actually wearing sunglasses, *sleeping* in front of a totally white screen, then.

  5. Duh . . . by Ezubaric · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kuhn adds that an opaque shielding device might be simpler way to obstruct prying eyes.

    I wonder if he has a patent on this idea. Wouldn't it just be better to have people in, I dunno, offices? You could control entry via special security signatures know as "keys," which would be small metal devices small enough to fit into your hand. Access to data would be protected by an "opaque shielding device" called a wall.

    I'll take my consulting check now, please.

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  6. Re:Seems kind of silly... by Shimbo · · Score: 5, Funny
    How about normal, polarized sunglasses and someone who can rotate their head?


    Head rotation devices will become illegal under the DMCA. I mean, looking away during the commercial break on is the same as stealing, right?

  7. Re:Seems kind of silly... by JTFritz · · Score: 4, Funny
    Does this mean that I need to use my red-lens and blue-lens 3d glasses from the '70s to program?

    And people thought we looked like dorks before...

  8. great excuse for non-working demos... by SethJohnson · · Score: 3, Funny


    This would be a great excuse for people who have to build Proof of Concepts for client demos. You could bring your non-functioning demo to the pitch meeting and just show them a white screen. Run through the sales pitch and if the customer complains, you could explain that because the product is so proprietary, your boss requires you use this screen to enforce confidentiality.
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  9. Re:There's a stronger way to do it by Lonath · · Score: 3, Funny

    As others have pointed out, polarizing filters are so common that there's no security here.

    Kind of how like ROT-13 decryptors are so common that there's no reason to send someone for jail for breaking the 31337 ROT-13 encryption on your valuable copyrighted digital content?

    Give it up. Polarizing filters are now terrorist Weapons of Mass IP Destruction.

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