How Do I Make My Screen Invisible To a Camera?

[Yasashii]

I work in a place with tons of cameras everywhere. Sometimes when I have a few minutes I'd like to, for instance, check my Facebook on my netbook, but I don't want my boss seeing that for obvious reasons. And yeah, those cameras are good enough to clearly capture screens.

 

Is there a simple way to make my screen invisible/hard to read to a camera? Something that wouldn't raise eyebrows like screen side shields would. I'm considering blasting IR light at my screen but someone would likely eventually ask why I have a flashlight pointed at my screen all the time.

 

The trick with taking off the polarized layer off my screen and using 3D glasses to see what's on the screen won't work either because it's just a simple netbook (Acer Aspire One 722) and it doesn't have 3D support.

 

I read somewhere that I could achieve the desired effect by setting my screen to a <60hz interlaced mode but my screen doesn't support those. Is there some software that would work as a filter on top of the desktop and convert it into interlaced 50hz refresh rate?

 

Is there a different way of achieving this?

[tlink]

there are these privacy covers that severely limit viewing angles, those could work.

[vorticalbox]

7 minutes ago, tlink said:

there are these privacy covers that severely limit viewing angles, those could work.

maybe a grease monkey script to make it look like something else? Tbh i doubt the camera are high quality enough to make out that much detail. 

[Yasashii]

Looked those filters up and yeah, that should work quite well. Those aren't exactly cheap, though. I will try to put away some dough for one when the next payday comes.

 

Is there a quick and dirty solution I could employ in the meantime, by any chance?

 

 

@vorticalbox What grease monkey script are you referring to? How would that work?

[VVoltor]

Tape something to your monitor and claim the glare is bothering you.

 

Or browse in text-only mode

[Bananasplit_00]

the more extreme privact filters are the only solution i can think of, those that give you like 10-20 degrees of viewing angle should give you the best result, but they also tend to make your screen pretty dark as a side effect just so you know

[vorticalbox]

7 minutes ago, Yasashii said:

 

@vorticalbox What grease monkey script are you referring to? How would that work?

well grease monkey allows you to run JavaScript on a domain, I've used it to add buttons and automate things so making one that changes the look of Facebook more safe for work shouldn't be too hard, assuming one doesn't exist which it might. 

[Colin Donoghue]

You could do your work instead 

[DnFx91]

using a physical privacy filter is just admitting to your employer that you are up to no good, so that's a shit idea. I would just whack to monitor contrast up to a million when you wanna go on facebook, camera will probably just see a white screen.

[Mick Naughty]

So they don't use a program that also allows them to see exactly what each system is currently seeing? Much easier for managers instead of getting a whole setup just to tap into the security feed.