From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:43:11 +0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Subject: Re: IR Cameras
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On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Jim Choate wrote:

> 
> Forwarded message:
> 
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 20:19:34 -0700
> > From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
> > Subject: Re: opinions on book "The Truth Machine"
> > 
> > Today's newspaper (SJ Mercury News) carried a long article about
> > increasingly ubiquitous video surveillance cameras, and singled out the
> > U.K. as a place that is leading. Apparently even small villages have 50 or
> > more cameras scattered around...men have been arrested for urinating in
> > bushes outside pubs, caught by the infrared pickups (I hadn't thought about
> > the cameras being IR, but this makes sense, as a large fraction of street
> > crimes take place in dark or semidark areas).
> 
> Here in Austin, TX there is at least 1 IR camera located at the top of the
> police building downtown (8th & IH-35). Many intersections have stoplight
> synchronized cameras for getting license plates of red light runners (eg N.
> Lamar & 51st). I know the output of the cameras is cabled off-pole (can see
> the cables) to a NEMA style box. Don't know the format from there. It would
> be no technological leap to buy cable channels and mux the pictures back to a
> centralized site. This city is lousy with cable and fiber and the city
> bought in from the get-go with a project called I-Net in the mid-80's.


Defense to all photo plate takers is best found in the back of Car and 
Driver in the form of a polarized plastic plate that is opaque at angles 
greater than about ten degrees.

> 
>                                                      Jim Choate
> 
> 

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