> Thanks for your response, I assumed you were not planning a career as > Mayor just yet, so guessed that you were just looking at if from an > interesting use of technology perspective.
Heh - give it four years, we'll see where we are, maybe I will ;) > > I was pondering things surrounding the RFID skimming element and > although you cannot extract personal data, you could easily link the RFID to > a person by the use of a webcam - how easy is that in Flash and catch them > each time they go past. From what I have read TfL, the world and his wife > are doing this anyway Yeah, British Airways is planning to do basically that, right? > ...the next step would be to ask someone like Mario Klingemann to work > his bitmap magic and see if he can create an image recognition program that > uses images from Facebook - obtained via API's to trawl for likenesses. You > could then tentatively identify the person and display their recent > indescretions on a 20 foot high screen, etc... Yes, although facial recognition is pretty CPU intensive - however flash generally can utilise whatever CPU power you throw at it (excepting multicore?) so I'm sure it'd be easy enough. > That's possibly more worrying than people hacking my card details as > the only thing stopping you there (apart from the technology) is your > adherence to Facebook's TOS Yeah, British Airways is planning to do basically that, right? > Maybe you should do it as a social experiment :) Or maybe you should? I'll happily give you the source if you want it! That goes for anyone, BTW. I haven't released it yet, but am planning to, shout me offlist if you're interested. Alias _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
