http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/251-300/00283_geeks_and_spooks.html I'll echo Ken Brown's "Yee-hah!" rating for this article. When Bruce goes on a rant, he goes on a rant, and this rant is worth reading just for the literary value of a good rant, even if we get bashed at least as much as Microsoft and the Spooks and the Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush Administration do. Bruce's suggestion for a recording device is somewhat different in style from David Brin's various RodneyKing shouldercams and other ubiquitous cameras, and a bit different from his fictionalizations in "Distraction", but, hey, it's doable, and this is a ranting essay, not a calm book like "The Transparent Society". Bruce:

."... I am suggesting secure, accountable devices with digital signatures built in. They're cryptographically time-stamped, their voice signals and photographs are cryptographically overwritten, proving their source. They are tamperproofed, and very sternly verifiable, and usable as proven evidence in courts of law. They're not civilian toys, they are genuine weapons of information warfare, in much the same way that an unarmed Predator surveillance aircraft is a weapon. They are people's media weapons. Their proper use requires some training and discretion; it's like a citizen's audiovisual arrest. This is the civilian militia Minuteman version of surveillance. The omnipresense of this kind of civilian- owned and civilian-deployed surveillance would not make anyone's society kinder and happier. But it certainly would make that society a very dangerous place for urban guerrillas. And it would not centralize the great power of surveillance in the unstable hands of unelected functionaries...."