Pointing us to Priceline.com founder Jay Walker's new anti-terror-tech proposal, Greg says, "I can only say at this point that one of two things might happen…A) they scrap the whole idea [my hope], or that the US gov't buys every welfare recipient a computer and an internet connection and pays them to monitor vital installations around the USA. Seriously though, I find it disturbing that someone would come up with this idea. It smacks of creepy neighbourhood spies."
Snip from CNN:
The premise behind Walker's USHomeGuard is simple: America has 47,000 power plants, airports and other "critical infrastructure facilities." Walker believes a terrorist can get within 100 feet of most of them, unchallenged and undetected, and kill or injure thousands.
But if onsite cameras beamed photos to the World Wide Web, Americans could monitor these sites from home. If they spied a potential attacker — a masked man trying to scale a power plant fence, or a van parked next to a reservoir — they could alert security agents with a click of the mouse. Agents would call local authorities and help avert disaster.Walker envisions spotters getting up to $10 per hour, paid by the government agencies and companies that need protecting. He wants to sell USHomeGuard to the federal government for $1, then charge fees to run the system.
