RE: Big Brother is listening

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

Outrageous. There's no privacy in public gunfire anymore in this
country.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of rms () computerbytesman com
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:00 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Big Brother is listening

I was traveling yesterday and missed out on this a little test a few
blocks from my house.  I wonder if firecrackers create false positives
for this new gun shot tracking system. 

Richard

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/04/police_fire_blanks_
in_p
ark_as_part_of_a_test/

Police fire blanks in park as part of a test By John C. Drake, Globe
Staff  |  October 4, 2007

A quiet night in the South End was disrupted by gunfire last evening,
startling area residents, but pleasing Boston police who had fired
blanks from Blackstone Park to test a new gunshot detection system.

The two-minute test about 9:30 p.m. was the first of six last night
within a 6.2-mile area of Boston that has been blanketed with gunshot
sensors, designed to alert police dispatchers in 10 seconds to the
location of gunfire within 30 feet of its origin.

Boston police Superintendent Dan Linskey said that 91 sensors are in
place and that last night's tests constituted the final step in
calibrating the high-tech crime-fighting system before its full
implementation.

"We're hoping to stop gunfights and people using guns in the city of
Boston," Linskey said at Blackstone Park before the test. "We're hoping
to do that by showing up on crime scenes in a timely fashion."

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