[109086] in Cypherpunks
Re: Someone taking photos of my house today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Mar 10 02:09:03 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:39:24 -0800
To: Reeza! <reeza@flex.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990309171048.0088c850@flex.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 05:10 PM 3/9/99 -1000, Reeza! wrote:
>>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.
>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,
You can easily enough build a script that recycles disk space
every couple of days, or dumps it to tape weekly if you prefer.
>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.
You should be able to arrange somewhere secure, such as your lawyer's,
though you'd probably need to do radio if you're paranoid about
them cutting your phone lines.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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