Re: [sudo-discuss] Dystopia Watch: Surveillance drones coming to a cafe near you.

People have rendered surveillance cameras useless with very bright IR LEDs in their fields of view. Could something similar be done for sound recording devices? On Mar 5, 2013 6:17 AM, "Anon195714" <anon195714(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Yo's- > > Something I forgot to add re. DARPA's desire for universal recording of > face-to-face conversations. > > What's the ideal device for doing all that recording? > > How'bout something you wear? How'bout something that "everyone" wears?, > or even a significant fraction of "everyone"? > > Like maybe Google Glasses. > > Always on, camera and mic always "connected" to "the cloud." Orwell's > telescreen gone mobile. > > Everyone who wears them will become, in effect, _unpaid surveillance > drones_ watching their family and friends, not from up in the sky, but > from up close where every word can be heard. > > Some will say "oh, there's no stopping technology." People said that > about the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb. But public outcry led > first to treaties and then to progressive degrees of nuclear > disarmament. We haven't used that technology since it was first used in > WW2. > > We can stop pernicious tech if we choose. We can refuse, we can > withdraw consent, we do not have to press the Buy button. > > Technology should liberate and empower people. "Conveniences with a few > strings attached" are not liberation, they're puppet-strings. > > It's all about control: technology that you can control, vs. technology > that can control you. > > -G. > > > ===== > > > On 13-03-05-Tue 1:50 AM, Anon195714 wrote: >> Yo's- >> >> This just in: >> >> "DARPA wants to make [voice recognition/transcription] systems so >> accurate, you’ll be able to easily record, transcribe and recall all >> the >> conversations you ever have. ... Imagine living in a world where every >> errant utterance you make is preserved forever. ... DARPA [awarded >> U.Texas comp sci researcher Matt Lease]... $300,000... over two years >> to >> study the new project, called “Blending Crowdsourcing with Automation >> for Fast, Cheap, and Accurate Analysis of Spontaneous Speech.”" >> >> "The idea is that business meetings or even conversations with your >> friends and family could be stored in archives and easily searched. >> The >> stored recordings could be held in servers, owned either by >> individuals >> or their employers. ... The answer, Lease says, is in widespread use >> of >> recording technologies like smartphones, cameras and audio >> recorders... >> [A] memorandum from the Congressional Research Service described [an >> earlier DARPA project of this type known as] EARS, as focusing on >> speech >> picked up from broadcasts and telephone conversations, “as well as >> extract clues about the identity of speakers” for “the military, >> intelligence and law enforcement communities.”" >> >> http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-speech/ (Yes, "real >> geeks >> don't read Wired," but nonetheless its news pages are useful for >> keeping >> a finger on the pulse of Big Brother and his corporate Brethren.) >> >> In short: >> >> DARPA is researching the means by which every conversation you have, >> in-person, whether at work or with family or friends, gets picked up >> by >> the mic in your smartphone or other portable device, and stored on a >> server, where DARPA's algorithms and human editors turn all of it into >> fast-searchable text, that could be used by your employer, the >> military, >> law enforcement, and intel agencies. Presumably the credit bureaus, >> insurance companies, and financial institutions will want "in" on the >> data as well. >> >> Now connect that with this, about cell-site tracking and call detail >> records: >> >> "The government maintained [that] Americans have no expectation of >> privacy of such cell-site records [call detail records or CDR] because >> they are in the possession of a third party — the mobile phone >> companies." >> >> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gps-drug-dealer-retrial/ >> >> The key point is that the gov's current position is that data stored >> on >> a third party's servers have "no expectation of privacy." What begins >> with CDR will eventually include voicemail messages stored on the >> mobile >> phone companies' servers, and then eventually all of your live >> in-person >> conversations that are stored "in the cloud." >> >> "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." Mark my words. >> >> Meanwhile people keep using gmail and Google Voice, and smartphones >> from >> which they can't remove the batteries. Because nothing is more >> important >> than "convenience," right? >> >> As a character in a sci-fi piece I wrote in the mid-1980s said, "Why >> put >> a person in prison, when you can put prison in the person instead?" >> >> -G. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss