[Gllug] Eric S. Raymond.

[John Hearns]

Gordon Joly wrote:

> ------- Forwarded Message
> From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie at mccarthy.vg>
> To: another list
> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:26:42 -0400
>
> There's a good writeup on adequacy.org, but for maximum impact,
> read Eric S. Raymond's piece first, if you haven't already.

ESR says in this article:

Video monitoring of public areas could have
                        accomplished exactly nothing against terrorists
taking even elementary concealment measures. If we
                        could somehow extend airport-level security to
the entire U.S., it would be just as useless against any
                        determined and even marginally competent enemy.

He's wrong there.
I remember going to one trade show/conference where Roke Manor
Technologies were showing off number plate recognition
software - every vehicle going past a camera, in real time, had its
number plate read.
I beleive GLLUG members will be able to say much more about the current
state of the art here.

I do not claim to be an expert, but my point is that this sort of
technology was and is being used to track suspect vehicles in the UK -
and I think with some success.
I remember reading that the van which carried the bomb to canary Wharf
was tracked all the way down the motorway network
from the ferry port. I may be wrong.

Also note that it is common knowledge that the Army have had a large
computerised database on Northern Ireland for
many years.








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