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Nothing new. Even at JFK they tested this nearly a decade ago: http://www.cartome.org/jfk-strike.htm JFK and other airports may still be using trained Birds of Prey to scare off feed species.

It is an important mechanism, for it automatizes and disindividualizes power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up. The ceremonies, the rituals, the marks by which the sovereign's surplus power was manifested are useless. There is a machinery that assures dissymmetry, disequilibrium, difference. Consequently, it does not matter who exercises power. Any individual, taken almost at random, can operate the machine: in the absence of the director, his family, his friends, his visitors, even his servants (Bentham, 45). Similarly, it does not matter what motive animates him: the curiosity of the indiscreet, the malice of a child, the thirst for knowledge of a philosopher who wishes to visit this museum of human nature, or the perversity of those who take pleasure in spying and punishing. The more numerous those anonymous and temporary observers are, the greater the risk for the inmate of being surprised and the greater his anxious awareness of being observed. The Panopticon is a marvellous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.

• It is not constant surveillance, but a static image.
• It's arguable whether or not it is even surveillance. Surveillance would require tracking people - these are just street pictures. If Google were to take new pictures every week, and then analyzed when/where they saw a particular person each week, then it would be surveillance.
• Google isn't exercising any power over people with this, so it is entirely irrelevant to the Panopticon.

I've noticed less kids hanging out smoking outside my front door since I added a clever Gnome and put one way tinting on the window facing the sidewalk, but no proof that those changes are the cause.

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I've noticed less kids hanging out smoking outside my front door since I added a clever Gnome and put one way tinting on the window facing the sidewalk, but no proof that those changes are the cause.

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http://cartome.org/panopticon1.htm

Mistrust is a self feeding phenomenon. If you feel the (irrational) need to spy on your employees you probably should seek psychological counseling. If your need to spy is JUSTIFIED, you should consider firing those employees!

Please read this essay in order to get a better understanding of what's really going on. I suggest reading it about five times.

Although originally an architectural design, the basis of Benthams panopticon was that we would never know whether people are actually looking at the cameras or not, creating an environment whose aims are "to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary"
Although having feeds open to the public may make use feel better in some way, it does not alleviate in any way, the permanent, concious feeling of being watched and the inherent conditioning this system creates.

When there's a cop sitting at the side of the road, everyone goes a pretty much the speed limit. This is something I wish was taught in civics lessons in every school in the country: it is the probability that law breaking will be detected and punished that matters most to deterrence, not the severity of the punishment.

Take a look at the way that the Panopticon worked. It's a classic 18th Century prison design that ensured that every prisoner had a feeling of being watched, without actually knowing for certain whether they were or not.

The net effect is that you get the same effect of watching all the prisoners, without actually having to undergo all the tedium of actually watching.

In the UK, only a small percentage of speed cameras actually contain any film or emit radar. However, except for drivers with radar detectors, the effect of one on driver speed is the same as a fully operational camera. Only the police don't have to spend time/money collecting and developing film.

ummm.

http://cryptome.org
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http://cartome.org

Damn, I've just Slashdotted Cryptome... :(

The article conspicuously lacks any link to the website of John Young, although it references it in the article. So the two that I found are here and here.

>Free speech doesn't really obey property lines, nor is your mis-guided theory a tenet of libertarianism.

If that were true, then this would be pointless.

>Most of all, libertarians don't say when or where free-speach is allowed.

So, as a libertarian, if someone is at my door selling knives, I must let them stand there and give their pitch?

Tresspass is tresspass, whether it is done in person, or done remotely.

Oh, and my theory isn't mis-guided. It's a theory many lawyers and judges have accepted as fact, and it is based on a 400 year old law making tresspass to chattels illegal. For more information (and proof) look up Intel vs. Hamidi. And yes, I disagree with the EFF here. In fact, you would be misguided to dismiss it out of hand, as it seems you have. My land, my equipment, my property, MY CONTROL.

I think you'll find my .sig very relevant to this discussion (or perhaps not).

I unfortunately missed this conference. One session I really wanted to see was John Young and Deborah Natsios of Cryptome.org & Cartome.org which happened on Friday (probably before Michael got there, I'd guess).

John slings information (in his spare time, he's an architect!) and makes trouble better than most people who claim to do it for a living. (Proof is in the form of an NSA robot which combs his site every morning.) Anyone who saw the talk, please post! John isn't a boring guy, so I'll bet it was good.
JMR

(As always, speaking ONLY for Jim Ray!!!)

This isn't as cool as a paint material that can be used as an antenna. The material is being developed by DARPA for use by the military. There's a story about it here.

I wonder how close to a target some of these software can actually get. I know with just about all (if not all) GPS devices, the government in the United States does not allow them to have pinpoint accuracy out of fear it would compromise military positions.

For those who don't want to download something like this may I suggest Cartome, which is Cryptome's companion that deals with mapping. They have a slew of links about products, free online services, etc.