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2006-11-03 Home Front: WoT

Texas Broadcasts Live Images of Border on Internet

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Posted by Sherry 2006-11-03 13:10|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Screen capture:

I tried it, it's really buggy. Users must open an account using a valid email address & then use their email address and site-supplied password to interact with the site. Firefox won't open any images. IE 7 wants me to install Active X, so I did, still most of the images wouldn't open. Thumbnail images sometimes have links which point back to home page, I could get around this by opening in a new tab. By clicking on the main image at the left, sometimes a Java applet can be made to open & users can zoom and pan the camera of the main window. Links to email address are for notifying authorities of suspicious activity. Without knowing what the cameras are looking at, makes it hard to figure out what might be suspicious. This may be a good idea if the bugs get worked out. It's nice to see someplace where the sun is shining, anyway.

Some civil rights groups have criticized the "virtual border watch," saying it will instill fear in border communities and could lead to fraudulent crime reports and racial profiling.

What a heap of Texas B.S. that is.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-03 17:39|| 2006-11-03 17:39|| Front Page Top

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