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At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded
New Jazari writes "Careful what you say when traveling, since the authorities will soon be able to zoom in on your conversations and record them for an indefinite amount of time. The story is about Canada, but I see no reason to think that this capability will not soon be installed in most places (if it's not already)."
Who gives a shit who was first? It's a bunch of wasted effort.
Terrorists are going to do shit that authorities are not going to be able to combat with tools like these. The terrorists know there are checkpoints and their limitations. They know their conversation may be overheard so they don't talk. They know that they could walk into a mall or megachurch and do the same damage they did with an airplane.
We're wasting our fucking time and money chasing ghosts which will bite us in the ass regardless of the freedoms we continue to happily and passively give up.
The real terrorists are the ones who record your private conversations in airports.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. Please read the entry again, then come back.
I wake up every day at 6 am and I go to the park. There's absolutely nobody there at that time, except for me and my wife. If I talk to my wife while I'm there, do you seriously expect me to assume that "somebody could have listened to us"?
This is like walking around with a stranger listening closely to everything you say, even if you say it in a very low voice.
I'm afraid I can't accept that.