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Downtown Baltimore To Get Massive Surveillance Network

Posted by michael on from the coming-to-a-city-near-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Baltimore Sun has an article on the new 24-hour security cameras to be installed downtown and in the Inner Harbor. 'Under the Inner Harbor plan, the cameras would be able to transmit images to helicopters and, eventually, police cruisers....' How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?"

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  1. How long..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?

    Good point. If it can be abused or hijacked, we can't do it. Thank GOD the internet can only be used for good, otherwise we'd need to shut it down.

  2. Heh.... by schild · · Score: 5, Funny

    Living in Maryland, I can see the need for cameras everywhere in the downtown area of Baltimore (not so much the inner harbor.

    But what happens when most of the citizens in downtown baltimore have shiny new closed circuit video cameras in their house they liberated from poles on the street?

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    schild
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