Template:Watching the Watchers
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The modern world is full of surveillance. This presentation will present specific equipment, hacks and techniques by which the general public can point their own video cameras back at the observers. This presentation is inspired by David Brin's "Transparent Society," with the notion that lots of cameras can be good, but only if everyone gets to watch the pictures. Small "spy" cameras will be demonstrated, along with methods for getting audio and video signals stored and forwarded on LANs and the Internet. Several methods will be detailed of how participants in a large-scale protest or similar event could set up a protest-area network to store and forward multiple copies of footage of their event. This presentation was shaped partially by the story of Alexander Dunlop, charged during the mass arrests during NY's RNC in 2004. It turned out that the NY authorities illegally edited video tape of Dunlop, to make it simpler for them to lie about his participation in a prote!st. Making it easy for the general public to record, store, forward and broadcast such events, as well as events from their daily lives, is the intent of this presentation and demonstration.
