Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams
According to this report from Wired today.
Hackers Rebel Against Spy Cams
What?? - Hackers are compaining about CCTV again!!!
Hmmmmm ... it seems like forever that people in the London 2600 group have been complaining about CCTV & Privacy Issues.
Now they have moved on, and expanded their horizons to include wider social concerns, like human rights and stupid legislation ..
Not surprising really - the UK has the largest number of CCTV cameras per head of population in the world - and London has more than its fair share of them.
It dosn't bring down the crime rate, doesn't stop terrorism, and costs a king's ransom in taxes.
Oh yeah, maybe if you are very lucky, the CCTV facial recognition is not outsourced to a robo-cop program - which the politicians can then blame for all the mistakes they make when somebody innocent gets stopped and searched, or or maybe even killed
Now that the UK Government has enacted the draconian email and phone snooping RIP Act, widened the Terrorism Act to supress politically motivated computer hackers, and promoted mass technological surveillance of millions of innocent citizens, you have to *trust* the likes of former Home Secretary Jack "Big Brother" Straw or the disgraced ex-Home Secretary David "Mastermind" Blunkett or the current incumbent Charles "detention without trial" Clarke, that your email is not being routinely monitored and that some cruel automatic traffic pattern analysis program is not adding points to your electronic secret police dossier.
Me .. I can't decide about CCTV .. it is all way too complicated for me .. all I know is that ..
I LOVE BIG BROTHER
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