"Operation Virtual Shield": Full-Spectrum Surveillance in Chicago
"Come for the food Stay because we know what you did"
We have tons of files about the video surveillance network in Chicago, double digit gigabytes. Most of the documents are easy to read, but as a whole body of records involve a technical deployment that takes place over years, and could only be easily or quickly parsed by the files' source and mostly creator, an IBM researcher.
Long-story short this researcher uploaded a hard drive wholesale without password protection or even a robots.txt, and Googlebot indexed it.
In a previous post I mentioned using a mind map to organize a structured directory of documents, you don't have to download the software to use the documents I'll be posting, but please keep this in mind, a key reason I am not just dumping a big zip file:
You will benefit from a much fuller understanding of what you read if you participate in the process of parsing its source corpus -- even if you want to make a docx outline with bullet points, one for each document perhaps, and then a child indention for components, analytic technology, application, and then sub-levels as appropriate.
You should also read whole documents as you go to inform your organization but the important point is ending up with the whole body of data in a consistent structure. This is most of the hard work on your way to higher-level data-mining and modeling with graphing software.
Right now I'm going to use a pretty basic approach, automating creation of a flow-chart template from the Chicago directory as I found it, with the exception of the last node on the second tier with children nodes, which are the document files in the top directory, I don't want them on the same level as the other directories for the structure purposes just mentioned. There are a lot of folders, the technical expertise involved in this process was the same as opening a document from the File tab in MS Word.
This folder (image/link)
became this mind map. See my tweets below and my previous blog post, I'll be updating regularly, in between doing stuff I have to do to eat...
http://blog.networkedinference.com/2017/01/also-about-video-surveillance-in....
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
http://blog.networkedinference.com/2017/01/also-about-video-surveillance-in....
Surveillance Police State.
On 01/18/2017 09:13 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
http://blog.networkedinference.com/2017/01/also-about-video-surveillance-in.... Surveillance Police State.
Operation Virtual Police State... A company named Persistent Systems hired by the LA county Sheriff to do full time full spectrum surveillance of the whole of LA county was 'outed' a few years ago. When it was in the news I happened by the local city bus terminal and sure enough a sticker on the entranceway glass door said the site surveillance was also being done by the same company.... I didn't have my camera with me at the time, and when I returned the next morning the sticker had changed to their new name... Dojo. (sort of like blackwater >> academi). All just as well. It's a federal crime to take pictures of public transport facilities thanks to the CIA's own al-Qaeda, Osama, and an airplane attack on a certain NYC tower complex. Rr LA Sheriff's Dept. On New Surveillance Program: We Knew The Public Wouldn't Like It, So We Kept It A Secret https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140415/07371926919/la-sheriffs-dept-new-... How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech https://www.wired.com/2016/09/baltimore-became-americas-testbed-surveillance... Baltimore billionaires donate (!) to the company Check THIS Lede:
Billionaire donors Laura and John Arnold support far more in Maryland than police surveillance
The surveillance program — which has sent a single-engine plane flying 8,000 feet above Baltimore to record hundreds of hours of video — began in January with an earlier, $120,000 gift from the Arnolds to Persistent Surveillance Systems, the department's contractor on an effort that police officials never disclosed to the mayor before starting the monitoring. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-arnolds-20160...
More related and useless for anything but police state bullshit... https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/trump-dhs-surveillance/
On 01/19/2017 02:50 PM, grarpamp wrote:
More related and useless for anything but police state bullshit... https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/trump-dhs-surveillance/
Totalitarian state is big biz. Speaking of /"bullshit..."/ I saw it even in the mundane after the 9-11 mis-appropriately named 'PATRIOT' Act surge, such as the reintroduction of something sold to LEO markets that didn't work in the 60s and probably still doesn't but the DHS will drop cases on police departments to keep their suppliers in tax dollars as quickly as they subsidize free Bearcat tac assault vehicles ... "instant banana peel" sprays for crowd control. Etc. Rr
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Razer <g2s@riseup.net> wrote:
On 01/19/2017 02:50 PM, grarpamp wrote:
More related and useless for anything but police state bullshit... https://theintercept.com/2017/01/19/trump-dhs-surveillance/
Totalitarian state is big biz.
Speaking of "bullshit..."
Is not quote in ticker pricelessly disgusting... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2ejQmtVIAEReFu.jpg Obama: You the media have pushed those of us in power to be the best version of ourselves.
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