Edited by author 10-13-2004 08:54 AM
If the government, any government, wanted to ban radio camera use then it could do so at the network level, simply not allowing any phone network to carry pictures. You might then see cameras with acoustic coupler, but there are ways to detect and block that, too. So then we proceed to audio steganography...

It would annoy people who want wireless multimedia and Internet access, but it's do-able. Explain that it's to stop - somehow - terrorists, pediatricians, and denizens of the exciting new world you were recently made aware of, of the upskirt photo. And others who take secret pictures at urinals (I don't know and don't wish to know if this actually happens). The majority will accept it.

While I hear Syria just jailed another journalist who photographed a Kurdish demonstration - not that the Western war against Syria will be fought because of that sort of thing, I don't expect. Or they'd have started years ago, and elsewhere.

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