From: brian carroll <electromagnetize@gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CJ Knight <nulldev@hush.com> Date: Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to screw you To: brian carroll <electromagnetize@gmail.com> Hi Brian, and happy new year. Thanks for another thought provoking post. A few things you might not be aware of happening over here in Europe, specifically the UK: We have ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras in place on every motorway junction, plus all major roads. They aren't advertised, they look like plain grey boxes, but people are slowly catching on to what they do, and how much they see. A journey from one end of the country to the other can be tracked in real time.
About 17 years ago I first learned about "3M louvered film" http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/AutomotiveDisplay/Solutions/Prod... , an extruded sheet product with tiny "louvers" of black plastic, separating clear plastic blocks. The purpose of this product was to block light passing through at a greater-than-desired angle. (the limiting angle can be varied by buying different models of material.) If a sheet was placed over a license plate, with the 'louvers' horizontal, the plate cannot be read if the camera is viewing the scene at a too-high elevation. (alternatively, or in addition, a second sheet of vertical louvers can be placed in front or back of the horizontal louvers, which would prevent the plate from being read from a camera at a too-high azimuth: the an angle, on the horizontal plane, from the side of the road). Jim Bell "jim btc tipjar" 1AzNPQ1NhiD9uG1hU5g5Kdaccb88Dus2Bo