Comments on: Countering British Government Paranoia

By: Periodismo Ciudadano

Periodismo Ciudadano — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:05:16 +0000

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By: Jon Garfunkel

Jon Garfunkel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:08:42 +0000

Dan, Check flickr for cctv. Only problem is that those silly posters are now thusly tagged! (Them's the breaks of everything being miscellaneous.) I did find the Panopticon pool, and look at the map of pictures. Here's the one picture tagged in London. One camera down, 499,999 to go. Jon

By: Delia

Delia — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:36:28 +0000

I love your patience, Jon… I don’t know what your rate of getting a response on this site is (it’s gotta be better than mine as of late) but it may not be that much better… yet you are hitting almost every single entry…

Delia

P.S. good luck with it! I’m taking a break… D.

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:27:54 +0000

I’d like to see a one-day event in London that worked roughly as follows:

Thousands of people, wearing masks, take cameras into the streets and shoot photos of the surveillance cameras. Then they post the pictures on a geo-coded map.

I’d love to see what MI5 would do with that.

By: Jon Garfunkel

Jon Garfunkel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:39:49 +0000

This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time! Consider the double-irony:

Let’s assume that “Q-Branch” MI5 has the technology to scan a crowd of faces and pick out the most wanted terrorists. Surely the MPS has technology TO USE THE SECURITY CAMERAS TO RECOGNIZE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TAKING PICTURES OF IT!

One of the BB readers figured this out: “Oh, and won’t most people taking photos of security cameras show up on security camera footage?”

And those government-created posters? Surely those were designed to fool BoingBoing into creating frivolous counter-posters!