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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:07 PM
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Anti-war protesters... I have some really good news for you!

New technology by Bluetooth..Protect your film from the police!

Transform Cellphones Into a CCTV Swarm!!!!!!!

holy_calamity writes
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1657259&from=rss

"Swiss researchers have developed java software that has bluetooth-capable camera phones form a distributed camera network. Each phone shares information on visual events with its neighbours and can work out the spatial position of phones around it (pdf). The software will become open source sometime next year, and the creators say it could be used to make a quick and dirty surveillance system. 'The phones currently use the average speed people walk to guess the distances between themselves, based on how long people take to move from one phone's view to another's. In testing, the system determined the distances between each phone with about 95% accuracy. They were placed 4 metres apart, making it accurate to about 20 centimetres. In future, recording the speed at which objects pass by would make more accurate judgments possible.'"

TECHNOLOGY WAR?: Transform cellphones into a CCTV swarm — this would make it impossible for police to brutalize people at protests — too many phones …. THIS IS GOOD NEWS.

I’ve long had the idea for a distributed picture system, where any picture you take is uploaded to every device around you (and vice-versa), so everybody gets everybody’s pictures, and police can never take away the film. Cell phones
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flashl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:12 PM
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1. Thats what I have been talking about.
We can use technology for our benefit faster than the RBOCs and telecomm can close doors.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:15 PM
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2. This will also work for keeping track of saboteurs..
When under-cover cops posing as protesters start fights, they will be on tape!
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:23 PM
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3. How long before Bush bans this phone/technology? n/t
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:40 PM
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6. That would be kinda hard. Bluetooth? What excuse would he use?
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:27 PM
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4. I sure hope the "spoiled brats" in Venezuela have
access to this technology.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 01:39 PM
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5. That's true. They can just use their CIA approved credit cards
to buy it with. But they may not like what comes out in the film. Like the faces of their American handlers. So I doubt that they will use them.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 02:47 PM
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7. Great Catch Joanne! nt
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 02:51 PM
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8. Easy enough for police and such to jam this
I imagine that the cops will get burned on this once or twice, then some of the brainy boys in DHS or such will come up with localized jammers that will shut this system down. I hope not, but this sort of tech absolutely cannot be allowed to be used, at least in law enforcement's eyes.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 02:52 PM
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9. This is cool. It reminds me of the post I saw a while back about the guy harrased by
a cop at a commuter parking lot.

The guy had cameras in his car that uploaded to a remote server, so he got the whole incident on video.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-03-07 03:42 PM
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10. Been waiting for this.
The TRUTH WILL WIN.
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