Hackers Rebel Against Government Spy Cams

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Hackers Rebel Against Government Spy Cams

12-31-2005, 02:20 PM,

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Hackers Rebel Against Government Spy Cams

Quote:When the Austrian government passed a law this year allowing police to install closed-circuit surveillance cameras in public spaces without a court order, the Austrian civil liberties group Quintessenz vowed to watch the watchers...

The Quintessenz activists then began figuring out how to blind the cameras with balloons, lasers and infrared devices...

In his keynote address, Joichi Ito, general manager of international operations for Technorati, warned that the internet could itself become a walled-in network controlled by the International Telecommunication Union, Microsoft and telecommunications companies...

Ito said these restrictions would stifle free speech and the ability to question authority without retribution...

full article: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,6...=rss.index

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