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"Who among us has not considered shoving a camera into our underwear… but for
the greater good… on the public’s dime? No need to raise your hands. We already
know where they are.
The only thing better than lots of surveillance is even more surveillance.
That’s the unofficial tagline of the Intelligence Community, as headed up by
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The IC has its own
version of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) called IARPA (the
only thing that changes is the “Intelligence”).
DARPA has given us things like headless robot dogs capable of climbing stairs
and being abused by their handlers. IARPA has likely given us useful, abusable
things, too. But now it’s giving us this, as reported by Adrianna Nine for
Extreme Tech.
The US intelligence community has invested $22 million in a project called
SMART ePants, which aims to produce underwear and other garments that help
the wearer conduct surveillance operations. Though fully washable, each
garment is expected to contain audio, video, and geolocation recording
devices.
Yes, they actually called it “SMART ePANTS.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
