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Privacy in the Woods?
Rorschach1 asks: "I work with a local Search and Rescue team, and for some time I've been thinking about the possibility of installing sensors at a few critical trail junctions in the local back country. The sensors would detect passing hikers and report timestamps to an Internet gateway in near real-time. When a hiker goes missing, this information could be very valuable in determining where search efforts should be directed.
However, I've spent enough time on Slashdot to know that whenever you start monitoring or tracking people and their activities, someone's going to get upset. So I'd like to hear from the tinfoil hat brigade - what are your objections to such a system, and how might your concerns be addressed?"
Hardened criminal? No, just an ass**** who likes to break stuff in the woods.
If somebody doesn't know there could be a cliff in the area, then yeah, let 'em rot. We've eliminated natural selection in every other aspect of society, I say leave it here. How stupid can somebody be not to notice a cliff?? The gene pool is actually getting worse, since the stupid breed, and the smart doesn't.... Oh wait... this sounds like a journal entry...