[109055] in Cypherpunks
Re: Someone taking photos of my house today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Mar 9 18:53:59 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:25:09 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990308173919.0088ea40@flex.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 05:39 PM 3/8/99 -1000, Reeza! wrote:
>Hey Tim, Smile! you're on candid camera!
>Now, before I send this, I must ask myself, does it contribute in any
>meaningful way, to cryptography, cryptology, cryptanalysis, or any crypt
>related stuff- crypt related stuff has possibilities,,, (heh heh)
There are a lot of tie-ins
- it could be some clueless Law-N-Forcer who's read Tim's signatures
about collapse of governments and guns and Aryans and is hoping
to get brownie points as the next Bell&Toto catcher
- it could be crazed David Brin fan increasing transparency
- it could be a newspaper reporter looking for a picture of
Tim's Y2K-compliant citadel in the mountains
- The view from Tim's backyard is really gorgeous, though
you couldn't see much from the road on the way up due to trees.
I met David Brin recently at a conference, which prompted me
to find where I put his book and read it :-)
"The Transparent Society" has a lot of discussion on
encryption and cypherpunks issues vs. accountability,
cameras being cheap, universal, and networked,
and information being widely available whether people want it or not.
A Brin approach to Tim's situation might include Tim setting up
a camera pointing at his driveway, available on the net,
with offsite storage (the anti-Brin version would encrypt the storage.)
For instance, CU-SeeMe quality probably can't read license plates,
unless you've got a camera that aims at moving stuff,
but you can get by with 56kbps and store about 600MB/day,
so a $50 camera, $50 of disk, next year's Nintendoclone and a Metricom
gets you storm trooper insurance.
>Reeza! (whoo hooo! out from under the yoke of the .mil domain!!!)
Good for you - I know I felt much better when I stopped being
a defense contractor and got an honest job :-)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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