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Technology for Undercover Journalists?
Undercover Journalist asks: "I need to take pictures and video in an area where soldiers/police will try to stop me if they saw what I am doing or/and confiscate my equipment. I need a rig that will allow unobtrusive taking of video/pictures and a way to transmit these images out as soon as I take them. I am thinking on a very small digital camera that can link to a notebook/pda that will spool the stream and use wireless to send the stream to a back-office for emailing it. Preferably, I should be able to script things, e.g. automatic, hand free operation and self-delete of files after transmission. The equipment should be at consumer level pricing. I don't have CIA budgets. I would appreciate thoughts about the kind of rig that would work best."
this will probably get tagged as flamebait, but, so be it.
every one of you assuming this user is a terrorist, or is involved in some sort of corporate espionage, or something otherwise evil, is as bad as the riaa assuming users downloading mp3s are doing so just to take money out of their pockets.
there could be VALID reasons for the writer to need to do what they do. just because youre assuming the worst doesnt mean it should be illegal.
this is poorly written because im a piss poor writer, so maybe someone with half a brain write proper post. thanks.
"I need to take pictures and video in an area where soldiers/police will try to stop me if they saw what I am doing or/and confiscate my equipment."
... in times like this be very careful who you piss off. Last thing you want is to be another teenager in a red car reaching for his seatbelt, who "had the same body build" of a supposed felon wanted by the FBI.
Weither or not what you want to do has any relation to terrorism, or even anything illegal is beside the point at the moment. You don't have to be a terrorist to be treated like on lately. I'm suffering from racial treatment from my boss at work cause I'm part egyptien. My advice to you is