On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:01 AM, <[1]xorcist@sigaint.org> wrote:

     I'd like to bounce an idea around. At the outset, I'm going to say
     that I
     don't really like the idea. Like getting a root canal, I'd rather
     not have
     a some guy drilling around in my jaw, but what can you do?
     Some years back, maybe 8 years ago now, prior to the Snowden
     revelations,
     a Kiwi buddy and I were discussing the arising surveillance state.
     I ventured the idea that the only way to combat it, is for citizens
     to put
     web cams in their windows, in their cars, have body cams..
     whatever.. and
     have a distributed system where we can live stream that stuff up.
     Open
     source surveillance, if you will.
     The idea scared the hell out of him, and rightly so. My take on
     surveillance tech is that it is like nukes. The only viable strategy
     is
     deterrence. The genie is out of the bottle, the tech isn't going
     anywhere,
     and so if we're going to preserve freedom, the technology needs to
     be
     under our control.
     Open source surveillance is a monster, but its a monster that would
     bite
     police and agents of the state as easily as us. Rather than the
     government/media being able to selectively pick-and-choose which
     camera
     angles, and which clips to release, we'd have to ability to check,
     and
     disprove.
     I don't like what it means, in terms of enabling stalkers, but
     perhaps
     that is mitigated by the ability to catch those fucks on camera?
     I'd love to hear reactions and thoughts on this. It's not something
     you're
     going to catch me truly arguing for, its really more of a devil's
     advocate
     type thing.. like I say, I just see it mostly as a fucked strategy
     for
     dealing with a fucked situation.

   This seems like exactly David Brin's proposal in The Transparent
   Society.
   [2]http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html

References

   1. mailto:xorcist@sigaint.org
   2. http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html