On 08/06/2013 09:59 AM, Alex Stanley wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote:
>> The local online rag has an article posted about the police surveillance
>> cameras around the town. All 12 of them (yup way, way behind what Salvy
>> probably has in his burg). Anyway they had posted a picture of the
>> command center with it's several monitors. I clicked on the picture
>> then zoomed in to see what cameras we showing in one of the monitors.
>> Then I noticed that another monitor which controls the system had a
>> something posted on a strip of paper on the top: the username and
>> password and clearly visible in the picture. :-D
>>
> LOL!
>
> But, on the topic of public surveillance, I'm always puzzled by detractors
> who claim it violates privacy. It seems to me that, by definition, when one
> is out in public, one would have no reasonable expectation of privacy. What
> bothers me is the monitoring of stuff where there *is* a reasonable
> expectation of privacy.
>
> Tom Tomorrow: The NSA Comes Clean
>
> http://www.thenation.com/blog/175603/nsa-comes-clean
And the lastest Codefellas episode from Wired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMYBmesKn8
So why to do the cops get uptight if you take a video of them? Actually
they'll never know with me because I have a pen camera and the pen part
actually works. And yes, what they shouldn't be doing is watching by
some secret camera in your home or activating the camera and microphone
on your smartphone whenever they want. That's WAY TOO 1984!
After the cameras were put in around here one store got it's front
window broken and nothing actually stolen. The camera across the street
didn't even cover that store the owner was pissed. The cops are rather
Barneyville around here.
And more police activity around the corner from me. I did a short walk
in the park nearby, one because I was going to meet someone at the
Starbucks down the road and two because the parks people decided to
adjust and run the sprinklers which spray the walking path. There was a
homeless guy with a green backpack. Maybe the had a mini-pressure
cooker in it because when I drove by afterward a bunch of the parks
people had tackled the guy in the street in front of the fire station
and looking in my rear mirror could see a police car approaching. As I
turned the corner a couple other police cars we coming down that street
lights running and sirens on. It might take a couple days however to
get the police report to find out what that was about if it gives any
detail at all.
