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Good stuff. I've been hearing stuff about laser pointer at demos popularised by Japan protests. Me and some anarchist comrades did some research and found that unless you have a steady arm, and a large £300 laser pointer then there is little point. The cheaper pointer can only slightly damage camera sensors and that's with a steady prolonged beam at a distance too close for comfort. However obfuscation for short moments is possible. With the larger more expensive pointer with a prolonged beam you will break the sensor.
The reason it was so effective in Asia is that everyone was doing it. Even if you’re only effective for brief moments, so is everyone else. One person’s “short moment” of obfuscation isn’t effective, but a hundred peoples’ “short moments” stacked on top of each other equate to complete obfuscation.