[117222] in Cypherpunks
"Intrudercam"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sat Aug 28 21:52:31 1999
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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 18:31:10 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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At 3:57 AM -0700 1999-08-28, Jay Holovacs wrote:
>At 01:36 PM 8/27/1999 -0700, Mark Allyn wrote:
>>
>>See the lights flash and hear the loud siran ring!
>>
>>See John's and Jane's ears pierce!
>>
>>See John and Jane screach and lose balance and fall on computer
>>electrocuting themselves.
>>
>
>I think a lot of cpunks are missing the point. The trap doesn't need to do
>bodily damage. The trap merely needs to spring in such a way that you, as
>well as many others as possible, are aware. Their whole card is secrecy. If
>you know your equipment has been compromised, then you can take appropriate
>sanitation action.
Perhaps a carefully hidden camera--one of those pinhole wide-angle cameras
in a wall--which can be set to activate if any motion is detected.
Even easier, a camera attached to the main Internet computer...nothing
unusual in this, and any intrusion team must be able to disable such a
camera without the very act of disabling being detected. Kind of hard to do
this, I would think.
Then the video can be made available on the Web, live.
With some sort of announcement sent out to mailing lists. Or perhaps even
to special sites which develop specifically to monitor for such intrusions.
Something like:
---
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: joe@user.net
Subject: ALERT -- Intruders in my office
An intrusion into my office has been detected.
Video at http://www.instrusion-video.joe.net
---
If the message takes too many minutes to propagate, at least a continuous
loop can be viewed. Whatever.
Seeing the BATFags and Feebies sneaking into a private home, with no
presentation of a warrant, might be newsworthy.
Not as newsworthy, of course, as a countdown on-screen saying "Keep
watching. In 18 seconds the boobytraps will be sprung and these intruders
will be incinerated live, online, realtime."
But the Fedz have outlawed such boobtraps, so goodthinking sheeple would
never think of doing such a thing.
Much as I dislike much of what David Brin blathers about, credit goes to
him for popularizing the notion that cameras will be ubiquitous tools for
exposing cops. The Rodney King tape is obviously an example.
I'll leave it at this. There are the usual issues of preventing false
alarms, of preventing the system from being turned on by the spies, getting
the signal out to the Internet when an intrusion is occurring, and so on.
--Tim May
Don't tread on me.
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