[109079] in Cypherpunks
Re: Someone taking photos of my house today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reeza!)
Tue Mar 9 22:27:06 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:10:48 -1000
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Reeza! <reeza@flex.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990309152509.0084d540@idiom.com>
Reply-To: Reeza! <reeza@flex.com>
At 03:25 PM 3/9/99 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
>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.
I've thought about this extensively myself, mostly for the storm trooper
insurance factor, though it would have other uses.
If it really is the storm troopers though, there is a chance they could do
a sweep, find the signal and jam it if it is wireless to the offsite
recorder. Perhaps if it were hardwired to something far enough away as to
appear innocuous, then went wireless to the recorder.
Your suggested implementation also sounds like it would need user
intervention at periodic and _frequent_ intervals, daily as it were?
Very nice would be something that would store a weeks worth at a time,
perhaps as much as a months worth. Another factor to calculate would be
whether to record continuously, (more storage needed), or to sample at
preselected intervals. Perhaps sampling, with certain silent alarms to
initiate continuous recording. Easy enough to modify an existing bungler
alarm (automotive type perhaps?) with, say, microwave motion detection for
such a purpose.
Or would the microwaves be detectable also?
Reese
