From: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 12:39:38 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Surveillance cameras
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"T.A.Z." <an57322@anon.penet.fi> wrote:

:Routine implants of transponder devices into humans are not a question of
:if, but only of when. I predict that they will become routine before the

and wrote, and wrote, and wrote...

Marc, when I said "And when you get a new account, remember to post to
penet.fi instead of the list directly." I didn't mean for you to take
it to heart quite so strongly and post the same thing four times!

G
PS London has the same degree of camera surveillance as you said
Germany has.  There's a big centre at Kings Cross Station where
all the Railway Police have their monitors (of all the Underground
entrances) and another one at New Scotland Yard where all the 
transport police have theirs.  The ones in the underground - which
are ostensibly just for mass crowd volume monitoring - have an
absolutely deadly killer zoom lens that's centrally steerable.

It's *way* overkill for the use it's supposed to be for...