>From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: Tiny toffee size camera
>Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 10:40:15 -0700
>
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>
>We joke around about this a lot, but consider some of Mikes
>objections. If we develop really cool wasp cams, etc, it really
>will be only a matter of time before they come into our bedrooms
>thru the AC vents, etc. All privacy *really will* be lost, and it
>isnt at all clear to me how one would defend against it without
>spending buttloads of money, an option closed to the poor. spike
>
>
There is a device on sale which responds to a camera flash by generating a
great flash of light. People wear them when they are going someplace where
they expect to be followed by paparazi. When the paparazi snaps a picture of
them, the device senses the flash, and responds with its own flash, which
leaves the resulting photograph unusable. I can see similar devices for use
against small cameras. A small video camera would probably set exposure by
adjusting to average room light. Whenever you are doing something sensitive,
just turn on a 500 Watt worklight, faced away from you, bringing the
"average light" to a level so higher above you that you'd come out very
dark. The camera would also have to transmit a signal at some frequency. How
hard would it be to set up a system detecting any frequency emenating from
the house, then flooding the area with noise of the came frequency?
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