NSA good guys

[Manning-ISI]

On 18April2014Friday, at 10:01, Juan wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:09:36 -0400
> dan at geer.org wrote:
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>> | 	It may be possible, in the not-so-distant-future, to record
>> | 	people in ultra high definition from a mile away, but the
>> | 	'technology'  can be rendered rather useless with somthing
>> | 	like...this
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>> http://ramitia.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/japan-face-masks.jpg | 
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>> At this time, it is possible to do facial recognition at 500 meters,
>> iris recognition at 50 meters, and heartbeat recognition at 5 meters.

[ dans plausable near future description elided]

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>> But you know all that, paper hospital masks notwithstanding.
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> 	Well, the scenario you paint is scary and looks a bit like
> 	science fiction. On one hand I do get your point. On the other
> 	hand I can't help but mention again that your
> 	iris-recognition-from-orbit can be defeated with $5 contact
> 	lenses. Other 'technologies' can certainly be more intrusive. 

you mean like these guys?    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contact_Lens


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> 	>The Smart Meter soon to be imposed 

	by SoCalEd & PGE in California...

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> 	>Cars are soon to be mandated to implement

	Japan is clearly headed in that direction...  
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> 	Mandated by?...by jesus...or by the american government, which
> 	amounts to the same thing. 
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> 	Anyway, all this is of course a political problem and so it
> 	requires a political solution. 

	Actually, its an economics problem...

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>> --dan
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