On Monday 18 January 2010, Helge Hafting wrote: > Rashid wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm going to need a very safe smart phone for using it for investigative > > reporting. > > > > So I have some questions before I'm going to get a Freerunner:
> > 3. Can you plug in an USB Cam (Like a Webcam) and use it to film > > (extremly important) on the crypted LVM? > > You can plug in any USB device that linux supports. I don't know if the > device is fast enough to actually encrypt and store a video stream > though. You might want to consider a really small PC like an acerONE. It > even has a built-in webcam. There is a further limitation - the port is usb1.1 while many modern webcams require usb2 bandwidth because they don't compress the video stream. > > We have serious problems in Europe with the freedom of the press so it > > would be great to use the freerunner with openmoko for helping freedom > > of the press. > > What part of Europe would that be? Definitely not western Europe. There are certainly more dangerous places to be a journalist, but the National Union of Journalists considers the situation in the UK at the moment fairly serious[0]. The International Federation of Journalists agree, but say the problem is Europe-wide[1]. Stop and search powers under Section 44 or the Terrorism Act, which allows searches without suspicion of wrongdoing, are widely used against both professional and amateur photographers[2], and are to continue[3] even though the European Court of Human Rights recently found it incompatible with European human rights laws[4]. [0] http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=910 [1] http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/efj-supports-nuj-campaign-against- terrorising-journalists-in-the-uk [2] http://photographernotaterrorist.org/ [3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/only_obeying_orders/ [4]http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?action=html&documentId=860909&portal=hbkm&source=externalbydocnumber _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
