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Re: Warspying? de mortuis nil nisi bonu ..
elag (elag@cloud8.net) 2004/01/29 21:34

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Paul Kinsler wrote:
>
> More news...
>
> He doesn't. But at the corner of Mason and Post a clear
> black-and-white image flickers onto the 2.5 inch screen. It's the
> interior of an office: a clock and a piece of art can be seen above
> a desk cluttered with stacks of books. The view is angled sidewise
> and up towards a drop ceiling, and is partly obscured, giving the
> video feed a decidedly covert look. Watching the display, Appelbaum
> sweeps the antenna slowly, left to right, up and down, dowsing for
> the source of the signal, which seems to be emanating from an upper
> floor of a hotel.  "That's a hidden camera right there," he says,
> with perhaps more confidence than is due.
>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/35198.html



Also remember that anyone in the general area of your computer monitor
can resolve an image of what you're looking at... the images are
essentially broadcast to anyone with the right equipment... so, that
suspicious looking van parked on the corner could really be reading your
digital diary.



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