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> What the hell happened in the last 20 years? This is a well known target for data collection, going back well beyond 20 years. It has been proposed before th
by sennight 5y ago
> What the hell happened in the last 20 years?
This is a well known target for data collection, going back well beyond 20 years. It has been proposed before that municipal sewage systems be monitored for byproducts of explosive and chemical weapons manufacturing, as well as surveying illicit substance use. Ambassadors have long been careful about where they take their dumps, and porta-shitters occasionally pop up on embassy grounds during periods of high tension - despite having a functional sewage line.
- pope_meat 5y agoMy pooping opsec is weak, I'm learning. Time to start keeping a bottle of bleach next to the porcelain throne. And perhaps one of those webcam covers that slide open and closed on the anus for when I'm on an untrusted toilet.
- sennight 5y agoThe truly security conscious will be forced to implement something terrible, something not unlike a bitcoin tumbler... obviously they'll be branded as crazy conspiracy theorists and told that only criminal defecators have anything to hide in the panopticon.
- didntknowya 5y agoyea we use it here in NZ to detect where COVID outbreaks are in a region
- sennight 5y agoSewage sampling has been used to survey disease for a long time, but we are at a point now where it is technically feasible to automate the collection and analysis of DNA. If that isn't disconcerting enough, we'll be operating on fairly rough race/familial markers for some time - so just enough evidence to initiate life ruination, but not enough to exonerate. Sewage surveillance was allegedly offered as a viable tool in the hunt for OBL once they narrowed down the Pakistani village. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-innocent-people-into-crime-suspects/ https://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-in...