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Jamming the watchers. A simple laser pointer can temporarily disable a surveillance camera. So says this artist/technologist in The New York Times. As the invasion of privacy, especially in public places, grows under Ashcroftism, we must be aware of who is watching us and we must take care to watch them as well. Camera-jamming may become a controversial new tactic in the war against the American police state. From the article:

Philip E. Agre, an associate professor of information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, [says,] "Everyone can watch the common people, but that has nothing to do with the political question of who can watch the powerful."

Or, as Johnny Cochran put it in his perverse but effective defense of OJ Simpson, "Who polices the police? You police the police."

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