Borders UK and privacy

[mmotyka at lsil.com]

Duncan Frissell <frissell at panix.com> 
>On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
>> David Brin's book "The Transparent Society" suggests that you
>> might as well get used to it.  Technological change driven by
>> the Moore's Law effects in computing power are making
>> video cameras and computer image processing get cheaper rapidly,
>> so the marginal benefit of using them doesn't have to be very high
>> to outweigh the marginal cost.  The real issues are still getting data,
>
>On the other hand, the technology of disguise and the public taste for
>radical body modification and active clothing all suggest that many of us
>will soon be denying a useful image to the opposition.  Then we won't have
>to worry until genetic sniffers become popular.
>
>Genetic sniffers, however can probably be defeated by devices that give
>off clouds of genetically random human biological material.
>
Didn't John Young note that a large portion of the waste removed from
the London underground was human hair and skin flakes? Waste not want
not.

>Offense and defense back and forth forever.
>
>DCF
>----
>Marshal de Vaubin -- No stronghold be ever invested stood.  No position he
>ever defended fell.