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Re: watch the lives of others, get cash prizes!
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:19:35 -0400
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:33:18 EDT, Alex Eckelberry said:
Registered surfers will compete for up to £1,000 a month, collecting points by watching a selection of anonymous cameras and clicking a button whenever they see something suspicious. The click will send an SMS and a still image to the camera operator, who decides whether to do anything about it. (You can lose points for sending a false alarm.) Says Morgan, who insists this is "not a game - these are not prizes, they're rewards for spotting crime", Internet Eyes "could turn out to be the best crime-prevention weapon there's ever been". What's not to love?
Trolls hell. If you're planning a bank heist, buy some time on a botnet to false-click on several tens of thousands of innocent cameras that have *something* going on (it doesn't take much image recognition to tell the difference between "the alley is empty" and "the alley has something moving). Consider it a variant on the guy who posted on Craigslist for dozens of people dressed the same to cover up a real bank heist...
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- Re: watch the lives of others, get cash prizes! G. D. Fuego (Oct 12)
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- Re: watch the lives of others, get cash prizes! Rich Kulawiec (Oct 13)
- Re: watch the lives of others, get cash prizes! chris (Oct 13)
- Re: watch the lives of others, get cash prizes! Alex Eckelberry (Oct 13)
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- Re: watch the lives of others, get cash prizes! Alex Eckelberry (Oct 13)
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