[extropy-chat] Transparency vs. terrorism

[Samantha Atkins]

On Aug 7, 2005, at 7:47 AM, Dan Clemmensen wrote:
> Exactly. Since it's inevitable, I'm proposing that the government  
> finance a quick kick-start to this phenomenon as a cheap and  
> effective response to terrorism. The bottom-up approach will not  
> lead to effective coverage in the short term, and there is not  
> enough mobile bandwidth already deployed, so fixed cameras are  
> currently more cost-effective.

If it is so cheap then why have government involved?  How is it  
effective?  The terrorist builds the suicide vest  in private, puts  
on a coat and then walks as seen on countless cameras to their target  
before going BOOM.  Also just a bunch of LOLs or ubiquitous camera  
would produce a veritable mountain of footage with little ability to  
sort out terrorism from a the mass.   Allegedly fighting terrorism is  
not worth giving up what freedom from government micro-control of our  
lives that we for the moment still retain.

- samantha

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