On Sat, April 21, 2007 10:08 am, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:07:02PM > -0700: > [snip] >> For any public surveillance or tracking, the public should be able to >> make a request for the information and have it granted. >> >> What happens is that this turns the watchers into the watched as well. >> >> Magically, when then happens, the advocates for public surveillance >> suddenly find their enthusiasm diminishes markedly. > > I figure surveillance should start with those who can do the most harm: > elected officals, heads of corporations, cops and other public servants, > and so forth. >
Harm to whom? Because it starts with political opponents of the people who control the surveillance. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
