Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

[Tyler Durden]

Well, the possibility of using 802.11b had occurred to me, but right now I would think it's too vulnerable. First of all, there will be a visible and stationary box somewhere. Second, this has to exist at the termination of either a DSL link, cable modem, or T1/fractional T1. All of these infrastrctural elements will theoreically be identified by the Power that Be.

(And "Powers that Be" this would not necessarily be a local thing, but perhaps other regimes overseas willing to take more obvious measures to prevent information percolation.)

Of course, Cell-based wireless is similar, but the difference (I think) is that if the cell site is shut down, cell service in the area dissappears...I would think this kind of "accidental" outage would be a hell of lot more conspicuous (and less probable) than an 802.11 switch dying.

As for the guy who posted about the Japanese kids, I would think that's a 3G-type application, but it of course doesn't have to be.

From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:11:51 -0800

On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 08:44  AM, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote:

At 10:08 AM 10/28/02 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:

In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless,
near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but

I'm

wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.

Plenty of webcams come with software to auto upload (e.g., ftp).
They require a computer though.  You mean an embedded device?
A 2.5 G phone with a camera, and the 'feature' to autosend
periodically, would be a fine vidbug.

Reminds me of that LEO notice a while back that captors were
leaving their cell phones, and leaving them on, in the copcars.

Seems to me that WiFi solves this problem, at least for public places.

Alice uses a laptop or beltpack machine, with a Webcam or DV camcorder. (Minor details of using the laptop while closed...some laptops support this, others shut down. Hence the mention of beltpack/gargoyle machines.)

Bob is within WiFi range, a few hundred feet, but is not obvious to the Thought Police.

Alice broadcasts, Bob receives, Alice is arrested for thoughtcrime, Bob later uploads.

--Tim May
"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams

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