I want it to be a conspiracy. No one is intended to see the inside of the box and thus the website unless the box is compromised. So when an unauthorized person sees it and goes to that website, they see it as a spammy forgotten domain, but it's actually trying to install surveillance software to see who you are and later why you've been poking around in a box they never intended you to poke around in. (This of cours…
That's pretty clever. If I had to bet money though, I'd assume something more mundane, like they are actually dumb enough to put a name and email on one of those. Do we have any reason to think that the person posting this is not the FBI themselves? Or some other foreign surveillance types?
Yeah, that's my romantic view, but probably unlikely.
> Assuming, of course, that the gunshot detectors are in fact special gunshot detectors and not a giant array of normal microphones with some algorithms applied to them. Why is your statement based at all on that assumption? I don't see what makes surveillance drones necessarily worse than human cops flying helicopters overhead with cameras (which I know for a fact occurs in my city). What makes the "drone" part prob…
I mean, a human in a helicopter is NOT the same as Gorgon Stare[0]. That's what's problematic, to me, anyhow. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
But if a human is piloting a helipcopter with a "gorgon stare"-esque technology attached, seems pretty much the same.
I guess I'm unsure what about the autonomous flying is what draws people ire, rather than just overhead surveillance as a concept.
Video-based lane occupancy detection is widely used by traffic lights, but it's rare for these cameras to be connected to anything other than a trigger module in the signal cabinet. It is conceptually possible to also connect these cameras to a remote monitoring system, but this comes at a very high cost. My city has been one of the stronger proponents of doing so but has only connected a very limited number of inter…
The city (major suburb) I used to live in has done this with all the intersections that lead into the city, effectively making it impossible to enter or leave the city without them having a record of it. I know they are able to scan license plates from these cameras -- and do so automatically -- because it's how they are able to "catch" people trying to use those 3M strobe lights that ambulances and fire trucks use t…
Do they directly say that they are using license plate reading? I find it far more likely that they are using the OPTICOM GPS solution which, in hybrid with OPTICOM IR, solves the same problem using cooperative radio equipment in emergency vehicles. Reporting on received IR preemption with no matching radio communication is an advertised feature of this system, whereas performing ALPR at the range and conditions of lane occupancy cameras is still largely experimental. ALPR virtually requires IR illumination, while lane occupancy cameras have no illuminators and are usually monochrome.