Recently I met one of the co-founders of a company that wrote the software that reads the license plates for toll booth plazas and soon for speeding cameras. I jokingly told him, “so you’re the guy everyone hates, eh?” and that’s when he mentioned they were working on programming for the speeding cameras now. I could tell it never occurred to him or concerned him that the system could be abused for profit. Obviously it’s just a gravy train for him and his partner. That’s one of the things that’s wrong with this country right now. People just don’t stop to think about the consequences of their actions when they’re developing technology that the Feds could abuse. All many of them seem to care about is getting rich and don’t seem to realize they’re selling their souls for 30 pieces of silver.
Such a shame. Well get it while it’s good but not one tear or bellyache when they use your own technology against you, your friends, or families.
“All many of them seem to care about is getting rich and don’t seem to realize they’re selling their souls for 30 pieces of silver.”
Privacy, security, and freedom need to be ENFORCED via laws based on our Constitution - in a country of 320 million people, you will ALWAYS find people to do the dirty work.
For example, if DHS wanted to build Nazi-style ovens to apply the “final solution” to the Tea Party, there would be contractors lining up the door for the work. Some might be driven due to political reasons, others just for the money. Don’t forget, in the 1990s, one of our top aerospace firms (Loral) essentially gave China the technology to build multi-stage nukes...because there was some money in it.
But, I agree, it’s sad this has to be the case.
This software already exists.