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Watching You
BWJones writes "National Geographic is running a story this month on surveillance. I received my copy today and the article is reasonably extensive (for National Geographic) and well written, covering many issues that get attention here on Slashdot both good and bad. There is coverage of what's good with the technologies (a program called Poseidon that helps ensure folks don't drown in swimming pools) and what's bad (death of privacy). In between are some additional details on backscatter X-ray and a taste of some of the security for the 2002 Winter Olympics here in SLC. I got to see a little bit more than the average person of the security during the winter games as our building was the emergency backup headquarters if anything went wrong and was routinely crawling with FBI and other folks including the Secret Service making for some interesting nights at the lab."
"I received my copy today"
We know.
Get used to it. You may keep selected keystrokes perfectly secret if you are willing to do all the work and keep your passphrase secret to the death (assuming no truth serum gets to you first) but everyone already knows what you did on TV and they all really care less and less. Set up a webcam in your bathroom, the hit will approach zero over time.
Every move you make and every vow you break
Every smile you fake, every claim you stake
They'll be watchin' you
Ceci n'est pas un post.
Is it really that damn hard to open the fridge and check the milk/oj yourself?
twice she has had it alert her to a person at the bottom of the pool.
Great, another impediment to natural selection.
please dont take away the warm security blanket of our conspiracy fears. its all we have left
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
OK, it's for a site called, uh, "Slashdot".
On a more serious note, I have been shown an ad for Slashdot on Slashdot twice in the past week. I actually find it really amusing but I have to wonder how much Slashdot pays Slashdot to advertise Slashdot on Slashdot. I just felt like sharing...
Although I actually have a serious question on the topic of ads on Slashdot. I've been seeing Flash ads show on Slashdot occasionally in the past several months and was wondering if the previous policy of "no Flash ads" had been reversed or if those ads just snuck through. I personally didn't mind these ads, as they had no sound to them, but I'm curious if the Flash policy had been revised.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
"Some issues just don't arrive too. February, for example, still hasn't arrived here."
:-)
My dad canceled his subscription almost a year ago and the Geographic continues to arrive monthly to this day. Now we know where those magazines come from
Freedom: "I won't!"