Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government

Re:Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly p... by MiroF on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:45PM (#23170970)

> Assuming, of course, that the gunshot detectors are in fact special gunshot detectors and not a giant array of normal microphones with some algorithms applied to them.

Why is your statement based at all on that assumption?

I don't see what makes surveillance drones necessarily worse than human cops flying helicopters overhead with cameras (which I know for a fact occurs in my city). What makes the "drone" part problematic?

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Re:Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly p... by sitkack on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:58PM (#23171752)

Scale, oversight. Would you mind if we had one cop per person and followed them around in public at 20 foot distance everywhere they went?

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Re:Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly p... by kfrzcode on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:41PM (#23172683)

I mean, a human in a helicopter is NOT the same as Gorgon Stare[0]. That's what's problematic, to me, anyhow.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare

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Re:Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly p... by MiroF on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:05PM (#23185430)

But if a human is piloting a helipcopter with a "gorgon stare"-esque technology attached, seems pretty much the same.

I guess I'm unsure what about the autonomous flying is what draws people ire, rather than just overhead surveillance as a concept.

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