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Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:40:34 +0900
Begin forwarded message: From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross () stapleton-gray com> Date: December 14, 2006 8:36:25 AM JST To: dave () farber net Subject: Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazilhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/ 2006/12/13/financial/f102507S62.DTL
"Businessman Joao Pedro Wettlauser was in Cologne, Germany, on Sunday when he received an alert on his phone informing him that someone had entered his vacation house in Guaruja, 54 miles south of Sao Paulo, police said. He quickly turned on his laptop and, thanks to security cameras connected to the Internet, was able to see a tattooed man stuffing goods into trash bags..."
Which is, of course, our future, when the cost of global bandwidth drops low enough, and the value of what's to be protected is high enough, to make it cost effective to engage eyes anywhere. In this case it was pretty simple, with a traditional alarm piping its alert over the phone network; he could have just had the alarm call in the police, though having one's own eyes on the situation avoids paying for false alarms, etc. But imagine when cheap bandwidth means that anyone with some spare time can be drafted into a "hey, watch my stuff, 'k?" network. Some Kalihari bushman's day job will be checking in on Beemers in parking garages in Manhattan.
(Now, I can think of about as many *evil* aspects of high-speed global comms, too. Drug dealers, for example, can hire out the same bushmen as lookouts, at the additional cost of sticking a wireless camera up to watch things.)
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