On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Like all such warfare it is a matter of cost of defense VS cost of >> offense and the amount of manpower that can be used. >> >> There is very good evidence that a clocking device could be made by TL >> 10 that works on all frequencies by bending light around the hidden >> object. >> Douglas E Knapp > > But wouldn't that be a little bit excessive 'just' to preserve > privacy? In the real world, I wouldn't like some government to > record everything I do online, but right now I'm not bothered > enough to actually use PGP ...
The stuff that bends light and hides you might not cost that much at TL 10 but I bet it would not be legal. Everything that goes international is recorded or monitored and has been for a LONG time in the USA. I had a teacher that helped to make the NSA telephone monitoring circuits. Many people told me it could not be done because the digital computers of that time were way to slow and I thought that was true. The teacher said the circuits were analog! God only knows what they are up to now, 60?? years later. The thing is that we are not that important on a government level so we don't try and hide and when we do hide we become a target because we are hiding. I also think that if cameras are everywhere as they mostly are now in any big city, anyone that attacks them will be recorded by the other across the street. Thank god we don't have every camera in the USA on the internet with the government having access! We still live in a time with lots of rat holes but by TL 10? Think of how many cameras there are now. Almost any big store has them all over, hotels, roads to monitor traffic, many small stores, ATM machines, many personal computers, lots of cell phones, some cars, cop cars. Now imagine them all on the net. Then think of the CIA, NSA, FBI and local cops having access to them all and the computer power to monitor it! YIKES! -- Douglas E Knapp Why do we live? _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
