[Linux-aus] Photos at conferences

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Matthew Cengia wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:36:54
> From: Matthew Cengia <mattcen at gmail.com>
> To: Bret Busby <bret at busby.net>
> Cc: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Photos at conferences
> 
> On 2014-01-21 17:18, Bret Busby wrote:
> [...]
>> And, what happens if someone of great value, like that Snowden guy,
>> happens to be there?
>>
>> Would Linux Australia be happy with causing the death of one of the
>> world's greatest whistleblowers, or the death of someone like the
>> girl from Afghanistan, who believes that females are entitled to
>> education, due to Linux Australia not acting to protect the privacy
>> of people at its conferences, and not respecting people, because of
>> the greater need to obtain compromising photographs?
>
> Again, the fact is that we live in a society where, even if people
> didn't carry cameras on their phones, there are still cameras
> everywhere; surveillance on public transport, in CBD streets, shopfronts
> etc.
>
> If somebody fits into either of the categories of the two people you
> mention above, do you honestly believe that the worst threat they face
> is people deliberately photographing them at a conference? Just
> *getting* to the conference would be risker than being there!
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Matthew Cengia
>

And then some bright spark from a conference, posts a photo that they 
took of the person, up on some antisocial social media, and the next 
day, the person is disappeared, or bits of the body found in the 
conference venue.

Other than the two above, people like Kim Dot Com, and dissidents from 
China, who believe that the Internet and Linux, should be accessible by 
people other than the politburo; many, meany people are vulnerable, and 
are wanted to be disappeared or otherwise exterminated.

Insofar as I am aware, the surveillance cameras do not go posting 
photographs on social media (unless it is some sex fiend in the 
surveillance organisation, that gets imagery of a sexual nature that 
they decide to publish).

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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