A new initiative by the Department of Homeland security will allow you (yes, You!) to combat terrorism from the comfort of your own La-Z-Boy. How, you might ask, you fine fine patriot, you? Well, it's kinda like a cross between the Neighborhood Watch and the Gestapo.
The Neighborhood Network Watch is intended to be a voluntary program that allows people to monitor network traffic on wireless networks and analyze it using a package of applications provided to the volunteers by the DHS, according to a video now posted on YouTube. Basically you grab the wireless traffic being broadcast all around you and then compare the words contained in that traffic against a list of keywords contained in the somewhat infamous Echelon word list which has been "updated to deal with the current, pressing threats from around the world." You know, words like "democrat", "free speech", and "sexy naked women". Depending on how many hits the traffic that any given volunteer grabs gets against that list, the network and area around it is given a rating similar to the ultra-effective rainbow of terror developed way back at the begining of this decade by our very first Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge. It even uses the same colors, how convenient!
Apparently this idea was left on the back burner for a bit while the DHS got its shit together (a task scheduled for completion sometime right before or possibly just after the Apocalypse), but current Secretary of Homeland Security (and creepy-looking SOB) Michael Chertoff thought it was so great he brought it back to life. Obviously modeled after the Neighborhood Watch program developed in the 60's (except with a much larger dork factor), the first chapter of this organization was started last March in New York City and monitored the networks of such hives of scum and villany like Think Coffee, Theeee [sic] Coffee Chamber (perhaps the extra E's stand for Terroreeesm), the Bowery Poetry Club, the SoHo Apple Store, and Starbucks (you know, right by the Starbucks). Apparently the chapter believes that terrorists really like caffeine, shitty open-mic spoken word, and iPods. Somehow the Starbucks managed to achieve a status of Elevated (yellow) while a coffee shop called Rapture Coffee got as far as High (orange). The video shows a map indicating that quite a few folks in the East Village of Manhatten are surfing with terror.
So after your local NNW chapter establishes that your friends and neighbors are downloading bomb plans to perpetrate the final jihad along with their porn, you can shoot an e-mail off to your local law enforcement or DHS itself and they can start hanging around the area with large flowers in their lapels, if you know what I'm saying. So why not get started right now? Of course, by reading this article you've already set off a half-dozen flags of your own. Hooray for freedom!
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There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain watching our every move.
In London, there are more CCTV cameras than any other city in the world with one camera for every eight Londoners.
But as victims of crime have found to their cost, catching criminals on camera is dependent on the equipment being both monitored and maintained.
BBC Inside Out's investigation has found that all too often Big Brother either is not watching, had a broken camera, lost the footage or could not be bothered to go through the tapes.
Even within the Metropolitan Police itself, there are differences of opinion about the value of CCTV.
One senior Met officer, Mick Neville, described London's CCTV network as an "utter fiasco", claiming it takes 1,000 cameras to solve just one crime per year.
But another senior Met officer disagrees. Detective Chief Inspector Julian Worker said: "For me, it is the most useful tool amongst the armoury of investigative tools that the Metropolitan Police and other police services throughout the country use. We are probably market leaders in the way that we utilise CCTV."
One UK businessman thinks he has come up with a solution by recruiting volunteers to watch live CCTV footage streamed over the web in return for cash prizes.
Businessman Tony Morgan sees his company, Internet Eyes, as the future with an army of volunteer spies monitoring live CCTV footage online and alerting police to any criminal activity they witness.
Their only incentive is a monthly prize of £1,000 for the best crime spotter of the month yet more than 10,000 recruits have already signed up.
But civil rights campaigners are not happy with the scheme.
Charles Farrier, from No CCTV, said: "Internet Eyes is a very worrying development - we are already the most watched country in the world. Now we have a private company asking private individuals to spy on each other."
Internet Eyes launches in early 2010 and is dependent on both volunteers sticking to their commitment to monitor the cameras and on police following up any leads that the volunteers alert them to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8393602.stm