http://www.care2.com/causes/first-amendment-protected-cell-phone-recordings- of-police-are-legal.html
The above article raises the issue of how to distribute photographs. If you take a photograph or a video of police doing something illegal then you need to send it out ASAP before the images are deleted and/or your phone is smashed. The usual way of sending pictures involves going to the picture viewer, selecting the picture, selecting that you want to send it, selecting the email or MMS program, entering an address, and then waiting. That's not going to be very useful when bad things are happening. What we need is a program that allows you to take pictures or video and just send them as fast as possible to a suitable server. For sending pictures email will do but you really don't want mail stored in the sent-mail folder (the default for K9 is to send the message twice, once by SMTP and once by IMAP). For sending video a protocol like FTP is necessary so that when a transfer is interupted you can still access whatever was sent. Good extra features would include the ability to scale down pictures and video for fast transmission, you get good quality if they don't smash your phone and low quality if nothing better survives. Also being able to send via Wifi would be a good feature, either a direct upload to a Wifi device that's not obvious (EG a tablet hidden under your car seat) or something like Serval. As an aside it would be an interesting experiment to see how many people can share photographs via Serval at an Occupy event before it gets overloaded. The Serval developers have always considered cases where a police or military organisation opposes users of their software. Serval is on f-droid, so it matches all aspects of freedom. Freedom from tyranny needs to involve Libre software, we just can't trust other software. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
