They can also be used for other purposes -- to snoop on people for personal reasons. (Reply #168)

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168. They can also be used for other purposes -- to snoop on people for personal reasons.

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168 replies	Author	Time	Post
Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest? [View all]	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	OP
I would toss them in jail.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#1
-1	blkmusclmachine	Jan 2013	#3
Hitler would have purely loved him some security cameras	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#5
The STASI of East Germany loved any form of surveillance they could dream up.	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#61
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#10
But who is the brick, and who is the wall?	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#12
I don't know, but your posts in this thread are making me want to get a closer look to find out	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#47
Not surprising that you're all for the National Surveillance State.	MadHound	Jan 2013	#19
'dey're like HEETLER!' No surprise from you. nt	Union Scribe	Jan 2013	#28
Hitler? Seriously? Do you really think Hitler would oppose government surveillance?	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#45
HOw can disabling spy cams lead to mass deaths????	dixiegrrrrl	Jan 2013	#46
They are security cameras. They are to stop terrorism and crime	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#66
How does a camera STOP crime?	dixiegrrrrl	Jan 2013	#74
By deterrence	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#104
Cameras don't STOP crime. And Hitler would have LOVED to have them to	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#155
Long live the state right?	Puzzledtraveller	Jan 2013	#56
I wouldn't toss them in jail.	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#60
You're quite the silly little cartoon, aren't you? nt	Codeine	Jan 2013	#76
You are spectacular proof of how easy it is to game this board	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#85
+ a shitload	Systematic Chaos	Jan 2013	#110
+ extra cheese	chollybocker	Jan 2013	#126
Of course you would :)	idwiyo	Jan 2013	#91
lol	fishwax	Jan 2013	#125
And I imagine you approve of driving Aaron Swartz to suicide.	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#131
I'm pretty sure Hitler would have tossed camera smashers in jail	Dead_Parrot	Jan 2013	#135
Move to the UK, you'll LOVE it there..	sir pball	Jan 2013	#151
One World, under surveillance.	blkmusclmachine	Jan 2013	#2
Depends on if they get caught or not if I were on a jury they would walk	stultusporcos	Jan 2013	#4
Would you believe I back Control over Kaos.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#6
A national security state is a one way ratchet..	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#8
Please ignore all my posts, I was not talking to you	stultusporcos	Jan 2013	#9
I don't ignore anybody. Feel free to ignore me.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#11
Cameras make you safe	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#13
cameras though will show the cops or Paul Blart Zimmermans, were wrong ala Rodney King	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#14
Johannes Meserle has been out of prison for quite a while for shooting a handcuffed man in the back	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#15
without the camera, there might have been zero time.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#33
The point is that cops can murder someone on camera and get away with it	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#37
Charmin with aloe. They already know I use that.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#54
Well, we just had 20 first graders and six teachers slaughtered	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#57
Because of a gun and a bullet. We need MORE security and new laws to ban all guns from street	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#58
Internal passports, that's what we need	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#59
in the NY/NJ area there are tolls all over. EZ pass.They already have these things	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#62
You want more checkpoints and metal detectors? I don't want to live in your America	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#69
gun control don't work because of legal guns. All major mass shootings are legal guns.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#70
As I said I support gun control, what I do not support is the mass surveillance you are proposing	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#71
It works in Israel, another democracy that has problems.And it works at airports now.	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#72
If it is working so well in Israel then I wonder why I hear so much about violence over there	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#73
then even more security is needed	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#83
I really don't think my friend would agree with you that more security would have saved his cousins	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#84
I don't play gotcha games or setups	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#87
That was not a gotcha, it was a fact	Bjorn Against	Jan 2013	#90
Wow...	im1013	Jan 2013	#105
Damn	EarthWindFire	Jan 2013	#127
Why stop with public places? Far too many violent crimes take place inside private homes.	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#161
Hyperbole	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#163
Love how you are trying to weasel your way out of this.	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#165
I already answered this yesterday	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#166
"if one is then not doing anything wrong, one has nothing to fear"	Union Scribe	Jan 2013	#30
There is no amount of state authority too much for this one.	X_Digger	Jan 2013	#68
You must really hate living in America. You'd be happier in London.	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#158
Your post about how cameras makes us safe probably sounds better in the original German. n/t	Ian David	Jan 2013	#35
Well said	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#40
+1, n/t	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#52
Thank you Dr. Suess	blueamy66	Jan 2013	#43
Cameras are a waste of money.	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#63
I don't think that's how it usually works.	randome	Jan 2013	#103
They can also be used for other purposes -- to snoop on people for personal reasons.	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#168
barbituates help you sleep	datasuspect	Jan 2013	#101
And people thought I was nuts for my rabid defense of Unions....	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#120
You didn't make the suggestion to me, but I'll be more than happy to take you up on it.	Raksha	Jan 2013	#118
So how's that RFID chip working out?	GoneOffShore	Jan 2013	#153
Yep, extreme authoritarian attitude.	hobbit709	Jan 2013	#38
Damn test wants you to sign up to get the results.	dixiegrrrrl	Jan 2013	#48
It wants you to but you don't have to I didn't.	hobbit709	Jan 2013	#49
It's all relative as to who is the watched and whom is the watcher ... and the	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#53
Do you really believe that by advancing the police state with cameras on all innocent people &	DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav	Jan 2013	#81
Those cameras you are salivating over WILL be used to limit your right to	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#157
One can travel worldwide. The cameras make it safer, and as for freedom	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#160
Why not both vandalism and protest?	Sam1	Jan 2013	#7
"All your images are belong to us." - Cam Corder	Berlum	Jan 2013	#16
Mayberry was safe, it didn't have any cameras and it only had one bullet. n/t	2on2u	Jan 2013	#17
Funny how Republicans love camera's...	trumad	Jan 2013	#18
Some Dems love em and want to live in a police state too	Lesmoderesstupides	Jan 2013	#21
I don't know any Democrats who wish for a police state.	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#162
If you're talking Republican government yes they love cameras. If you're talking Republican	DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav	Jan 2013	#86
A beside the point reaction to a false overreaction	PATRICK	Jan 2013	#20
Doesn't matter, good on them,	MadHound	Jan 2013	#22
Technically you own the air space above your home	Lesmoderesstupides	Jan 2013	#24
No, you technically don't,	MadHound	Jan 2013	#25
GA and Com air have a right of way, just like the power company has	Lesmoderesstupides	Jan 2013	#27
There are dozens of cases in any decent law library that prove you wrong,	MadHound	Jan 2013	#29
Do property owners own airspace up to a certain ceiling?	Orrex	Jan 2013	#31
LOL, yes, firing a gun at a drone is legal. Where the hell did you read that? n-t	Logical	Jan 2013	#44
I am so mixed when it comes to CCTVs.	mwooldri	Jan 2013	#23
Many of the red light/speeding cameras are owned by for profit businesses	dixiegrrrrl	Jan 2013	#50
UK speeding cameras are run by local authorities.	mwooldri	Jan 2013	#82
The irony is thick	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#26
that is the problem behind most modern day protests	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#34
You've spent a lot of time defending your position and the watcher's position	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#77
as #6 said, be seeing you	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#78
of course, he himself was a spy, which was convient for Drake to forget	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#79
He was property of US Government	flash514c	Jan 2013	#124
That is a very good point. n/t	Ian David	Jan 2013	#36
+1 It's like concealed carry: the presumption that public places are to have the traits that certain	patrice	Jan 2013	#133
Does anyone see how similar this attitude is to being the Big Brother that it purports to resist? nt	patrice	Jan 2013	#144
How is that an either/or formulation?	Orrex	Jan 2013	#32
+1 nt	Deep13	Jan 2013	#51
It may be valid protest if the probability of being attacked in that particular place is less coerci	patrice	Jan 2013	#145
Don't worry...	whistler162	Jan 2013	#39
"The cameras can provide facial recognition at distances of up to 600 feet..."	Fire Walk With Me	Jan 2013	#41
It's a valid protest	Demo_Chris	Jan 2013	#42
Protests such as this are vital, what you will see and as we already	Puzzledtraveller	Jan 2013	#55
It's a game, not a protest.	randome	Jan 2013	#67
Sounds like good fun, as long as you don't get caught. nt	bemildred	Jan 2013	#64
Criminals. Absence of cameras will make crime like mugging more common	geek tragedy	Jan 2013	#65
Muggers don't give a shit about cameras, and know where not to look	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#75
cameras aren't looking for muggers. they are looking for terrorists and are needed	graham4anything	Jan 2013	#88
Well here is where my Saturday went....	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#96
That is SO PAINFUL to see!!	im1013	Jan 2013	#112
Newsflash for you - public places are public	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#123
Vandalism. Only plays into the hands of those arguing for more surveillance. nt	EastKYLiberal	Jan 2013	#80
I wish my son's parking lot had a camera	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#89
Parking lots/garages are one thing	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#92
You know what..	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#93
Right...	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#94
Why should that matter?	randome	Jan 2013	#95
Where does it end?	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#97
Have you ever asked yourself about the "natural condition" of human society	jberryhill	Jan 2013	#99
I'm not sure what you're getting at	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#107
Maybe it ends just before we get to those things you list.	randome	Jan 2013	#100
I believe CCTV has already	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#109
If you encourage hm to blather on about the goodness of full-time invasion of privacy	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#129
+100	im1013	Jan 2013	#113
How is having them on subways different than parking lots?	Gore1FL	Jan 2013	#121
The problem is that cameras that catch terrists can also be used to catch political opponents.	bemildred	Jan 2013	#98
There are FAR more political opponents than terrorists, so we all get ONE guess	kestrel91316	Jan 2013	#164
Vandalism.	kiva	Jan 2013	#102
Tear every god damned one of them down and praise the heros who do it, because its no game	1-Old-Man	Jan 2013	#106
I'm sure many women will feel safer walking out to a darkened parking lot.	randome	Jan 2013	#108
Looper	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#111
But who is to say which places are 'safe' without cameras?	randome	Jan 2013	#114
Well	whatchamacallit	Jan 2013	#116
I agree we should never be complaiscent.	randome	Jan 2013	#117
+1,000,000!!	im1013	Jan 2013	#115
That must be one huge monitoring center	Chico Man	Jan 2013	#139
Wait till the Monday crowd shows up	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#119
its vandalism	Takket	Jan 2013	#122
It's possible this is more about bragging rights than it is about a remedy for the problem of	patrice	Jan 2013	#128
It's civil disobedience. Of course it's illegal, and property destruction. Do it anyways.	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#130
Please. No one is watching your every move	Chico Man	Jan 2013	#132
Delusional my ass.	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#134
Yes they save the footage	Chico Man	Jan 2013	#136
Right, so you're fine with the feds having your entire life on video...	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#149
The Feds don't have my entire life on video	Chico Man	Jan 2013	#150
Visit London	cthulu2016	Jan 2013	#138
They have cameras	Chico Man	Jan 2013	#140
As a preteen I asked the question, "Could it ever happen here?"	20score	Jan 2013	#137
Ideology over reality: ALL cameras are instances of hyper-surveillance, hurts the case for	patrice	Jan 2013	#141
Other then the spray painting I'm ok with it.	Arctic Dave	Jan 2013	#142
What would be really impressive	Chico Man	Jan 2013	#143
Whatever gets the job done works for me.	TheKentuckian	Jan 2013	#146
A two edged sword	catchnrelease	Jan 2013	#147
1984	DainBramaged	Jan 2013	#148
Agree 100%. Also love the Brit habit of destroying speed cameras	Taverner	Jan 2013	#152
Oh noes!	abelenkpe	Jan 2013	#154
It's kind of sad that they do self-surveillance by posting the videos.	JVS	Jan 2013	#156
If we as a nation are resigned to allowing 310+ million guns	ecstatic	Jan 2013	#159
I'm much more concerned with the neighborhood resident..	LanternWaste	Jan 2013	#167

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