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Re: WearComp as crime deterrent

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998  wrote:

> > and looks like an ordinary backpack if I put the interface away (for
> > security reasons- walking through the centre of Manchester looking like a 
> > cyborg would be just _asking_ to be mugged).
> back in the '80s i used to walk around some pretty bad areas, railyards,
> bayfronts, at midnight, etc. (i shot a lot of pictures in the "urban blight"
> style), and then of course i really looked like a cyborg
> (as in http://wearcam.org/steve80.jpg).

Heh. I've also seen pictures of the flashguns you could have used to blind
them ;)

> i found that people went across to the other side of the street to avoid
> me, e.g. even groups of rough looking thugs often seemed as afraid of me
> as i was of them.

I think I'd still prefer to not attract undue attention to myself.

> your rig might be worth some money, but it might also buy them a trip to
> jail (e.g. shoot first, present the images later).

It would probably be pretty worthless to them, but they wouldn't know that
until after they'd stolen it and found out that there's no easy way to
break into the system without the knowledge of how to set up a DHCP server
to boot remotely and write a new disk image to it. If they've stolen it,
you are also left without the evidence as it was stored on the computer
(I don't plan to implement an RF network connection).

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