8 Genius Ways to Trick Surveillance Systems

Today's databases are jam-packed with, well, our data, from our license plate numbers to our fingerprints to photos of our actual faces. But that doesn't sit right with some hackers, who take issue with all the ways we can be tracked and surveilled through technology.

So the world's best black hats have come up with a clever solution to defeat databases: feed them with faulty data to make the systems less effective and more expensive. Here are some of their most resourceful methods for fooling surveillance systems, and how you can follow suit.