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[privacy] Spy Lasers?
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 01:30:19 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Danger Room. [snip] Forget the spy cameras, scent-detectors, and data-mining algorithms. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory group is looking to build a laser-based surveillance system to "automatically detect millimetre-scale changes to a scene." "Rather than detecting intruders or monitoring people, it keeps track of static objects in a scene. This is done by attaching tags to important items, which reflect laser light, allowing a connected sensor to monitor their location precisely," New Scientist observes. "If one of the tags is moved, or disturbed even slightly, this will be revealed by the laser reflection." [snip] More: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/05/set_lasers_to_s.html Note: While I'm very delighted by the technology :-) I have to say that between this and RFID Dust [1], some of this technology also kind of disturbs me a little. [1] http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2007/02/mark-of-beast-watch-hitachis.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGVOqmq1pz9mNUZTMRAjE5AKDPM416zI131+RF2BymCLe0Z95XTQCguBR7 IkOm935ttIyQ4jIDlMgC01M= =8cSS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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