From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 05:18:50 MST
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:12:19 -0800, spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Such a thing already exists, or can be easily modified
> from cheap commercially available wireless cameras, such
> as those x10 things you can find for less than 100 bucks
> at Fry's.
I'm going to chip in my Eliezer Yudkowsky moddy.
No. I reiterate, Spike: The missing piece is rapid robust distant backup.
Such a thing does not exist off the shelf at a good (mass consumer) price
yet. I'd love to help bring it to market.
> The picture isn't great, but good enough for the purpose
> of protecting oneself from false accusations at a rally,
> and good enough for identifying abusive cops, etc. The
> range isn't great, but good enough for these purposes as
> well. Your buddy with the recording device (any ordinary
> portable battery VCR will do) stands a few meters away,
> perhaps with her own camera, for which you carry the
> recording device.
I disagree. This is not robust, it is not distant, and it has no backup.
It's a baby step in the direction of what I am talking about.
DISTANT: Need effective range measurable in many hundreds of meters, with
signal quality feedback to the operator.
BACKUP: Need multiple records.
ROBUST: Need records stored in different hard-to-corral places (say a p2p
network), need signal hard-to-jam/detect.
Typical problem with your proposed approach:
A few meters away, your friend gets swept up in a dragnet, or detained and
frisked, and the only copy goes into the hands of the cops. This happens
even with small stuff. *Frisk* "What's this, sir?" If the henchman gets
booked, the only record winds up in the property room as a matter of police
procedure, possibly edited or deleted or lost.
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