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The distinction here is whether police can secretly enter a home to plant bugs, &c. In the US, this is routine; in Germany, this is (was?) taboo. (FYI, you can
by perihelions 10mo ago
The distinction here is whether police can secretly enter a home to plant bugs, &c. In the US, this is routine; in Germany, this is (was?) taboo.
(FYI, you can escape * as \* to get it to display as *).
- mmooss 10mo agoThanks for the tip!
- andrepd 10mo agoIs this even practical anymore? A non-technical person can set up video surveillance on their home for a couple hundred bucks. Why wouldn't a criminal do that? I think the days of the FBI planting a microphone in a lamp on Tony Soprano's basement are over.
- fragmede 10mo agoI read in the papers that the cheap cameras are over wifi, so thieves are using wifi jammers to take them offline during the heist.
- marginalia_nu 10mo agoIt's hard to set up video surveillance in your home without inadvertently providing much of the surveillance data the law enforcement officers were after, especially for non-technical people.
- andrepd 10mo agoGood point!
- breppp 10mo agoThe FBI has an array of readymade zero day exploits, it is probably able to handle Tony Sporano's Chinese knockoff video survelliance