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Ironically open defecation now seems like a good privacy move :)
by sn41 8y ago
Ironically open defecation now seems like a good privacy move :)
- spullara 8y agoNo wonder it is so popular in San Francisco.
- jdoliner 8y agoThis actually seems just barely within the realm of possibility of something a privacy bulwark like Richard Stallman could support
- 13of40 8y agoI remember reading back in the Bush era that when he travelled abroad he used a porta-potty so the Russians couldn't analyze his poo.
- waterhouse 8y agoSeriously, though. Given all the things drug addicts often do if driven to them, is it wise to give them an incentive to, say, poop into a bag and eventually throw it into someone else's trash? I was wondering whether the technology was at the level where it could track it down to an individual. Struck me as implausible, but then the article says "policing" and that it was successfully used to "help track down" a manufacturer, but further thought shows that "help track down" might just mean "it helped narrow it down to a neighborhood" or something. I'm sure they wouldn't install in every apartment things that take samples at every different tenant's toilets. But they might take very broad samples, and then, when they find positive results in one area, they could add more sampling to its sub-areas, and narrow it down progressively, and eventually say "We now have cause to search the rooms of everyone in this apartment building for drugs".