1984 Comes To Boston (fwd from brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org)
Riad S. Wahby
rsw at jfet.org
Mon Jul 19 05:13:46 PDT 2004
Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> from the panopticonjob dept.
> walmass writes "In preparation for the DNC in Boston, [1]75 cameras
> monitored by the Federal government will be operating around the
> downtown Boston location. There are also an unspecified number of
> state police cameras, and 100 cameras owned by the Metro Boston
> Transit Authority. Quote: 'And it's here to stay: Boston police say
> the 30 or so cameras installed for the convention will be used
> throughout the city once the event is over. "We own them now," said
> police Superintendent Robert Dunford. "We're certainly not going to
> put them in a closet."'"
Maybe it's time to start making those high power IR emitters. Make them
cheap enough and we can just hand them out to right-minded folk to drop
here and there.
Has anyone seen these cameras? Are they noticeable?
At least some of them are supposedly on the central artery; your car can
certainly spare 100W or so for some IR blasters...
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Riad S. Wahby
rsw at jfet.org
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