[Cryptography] Photojournalists & filmmakers want cameras, to be encrypted

[Steve Furlong]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Christian Huitema <huitema at huitema.net>
wrote:
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> Any reason that real time streaming to a safe place would not have worked?

1. Phone towers can be, and in some places often are, turned off during
protests, police "crackdowns", and other events which those in charge don't
want reported.
2. Phone and internet traffic can be monitored, on the fly or post mortem,
pun intended, to see what registered phone was pushing up a lot of traffic
from such-and-such location in such-and-such time window.
3. Even without malignant government, how many phones streaming video up at
a single event would it take to crash the system? That's an actual
question, not a rhetorical; I don't know the capacity and robustness of the
phone systems in Cairo and Seoul and Tbilisi and Portland Oregon when it
comes to pushing up useful-resolution video.

-- 
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet. -- Arnaud-Amaury, 1209
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