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The military has been doing this in non-visible parts of the IR spectrum for a decade. Every (important) checkpoint in Iraq has/had this feature.
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
The military has been doing this in non-visible parts of the IR spectrum for a decade. Every (important) checkpoint in Iraq has/had this feature.
- oliwarner 5y agoIf that's the case, in any measurable way, that rather undercuts any case for its efficacy.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoIn Iraq the intel was lacking. You have a car or a person and the prior locations they've been (only a subset, because spotty coverage) but you don't know who's in the car or who the person is unless you've already allocated resources toward them (i.e. they're someone already on your radar of being interesting). In rich first world nations who have money they can freely piss away on database integrations and all other manner of orwellian shit you get much more info. A license plate is as good as bank records and a life story of the owner. In iraq a license plate is just a license plate.