Sean, My personal experience with public spaces in New England, USA is that somebody else will surreptitiously install their own surveillance if I do not.
I recommend ensuring public spaces in areas with any criminal or government presence be reasonably monitored and all logs made completely public. Where is your space? It sounds great! -Karl On Mar 17, 2014 5:59 AM, "Sean Alexandre" <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a strange problem at our hackerspace, with minor vandalism. At > first it > seemed like someone was just being messy, but now it looks malicious. > > As one simple example, we recently had a work day to organize the space. > Parts > were put in boxes based on what they were: hard drives, networking > equipment, > etc. One box had phones, and had four simple touch-tone phones. Someone > took > each of them and put them randomly in other boxes. > > There have been other things like this, some worse. We have another room > with > wood and metal working tools, and someone took tools and parts out of their > containers and spread them around the room. > > I have to say that I'm not at the space enough to give details on > everything > that's happened. But, the general consensus now seems to be that what's > happening is being done maliciously. > > Some have spoken in favor of installing video cameras, to surveil the > space, as > a way to stop this. > > Others, me included, really don't want to see video surveillance in the > space. > > Any thoughts on what to do? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Crossposted [1] earlier to [email protected] [2] > > [1] > http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-March/thread.html#9154 > [2] http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. >
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