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Public safety and virtual reality

Remember way back when, when you had college kids playing "assassin" on campuses with dart guns, pulling all sorts of pranks to get to their assigned targets (other players), and how hilarity would ensue when the campus cops (or real ones) were called about "prowlers" with "guns"?

Fast forward to today, post-9/11, post-hacker, and now have people worried about people playing a virtual/augmented reality game by Google …

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Public safety employees – those people running around your city “hacking” with their smartphones may be playing a Google game (Ingress)
This post is addressed to public safety employees, such as police officers and firefighters. It is also applicable to other government employees, such as postal workers, docents, and park rangers. ……

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6 thoughts on “Public safety and virtual reality”

  1. While I'm not sure I think this is completely a good idea, it does force
    security analysis to get a lot better: if they don't, that means they will be overwhelmed by false positives.  Reduction in the false positive rate is good for all citizens.

  2. Except for the folks who get into trouble in that early surge of false positives.

    I suppose, were one a particularly crafty and tech-culture-savvy miscreant (I'll avoid the "T" word), one could use a game like this as cover for legitimate security threats (just flashing on the "Leverage" team here doing something like this).

  3. +Dave Hill Unfortunately, it's necessary.  The level of false positives is already extremely high.  Extending that out to infinity is unacceptable.  A temporary spike in that number followed by forced change will be better than the alternative.

    I'm not saying it's ideal.  I'm saying it's the only possibility I see for convincing the existent bureaucracy that change is needed.

  4. Unfortunately, I see it more likely that instead the public safety officials will simply consider the game (and ones like it) a danger, lobby for legislation, and harass people over it (cf. taking photos of public buildings).

  5. That's possible too.  On the other hand, outside of old-media giants, no one has ever moved directly to try to arrest the expansion of internet entertainment, and many people have a lot to gain.  In other words: there's a lot of lobbying money to be gained in fighting such an expansion of law, and very little to be gained supporting it.  

    At least, that's my take.  But I might be wrong.

  6. Well, heck, you can’t carry a camera outside of Disneyland without being suspected of terrorism. Fear seems to be driving many of our society’s decisions these days. It saddens me.

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