There's a news story on the BBC today about plans to add 'public webcam feeds' to the fence along the US-Mexican border, which reminded me of the news, earlier this year, that a London borough was planning to pipe CCTV surveillance images into the homes of its citizen-enforcers.
The possibilities for less benevolent citizens to subvert this for 'denial-of-service' purposes seem too obvious to need pointing out. The faster border patrols can be directed to one place, the faster they can be lured away from somewhere else... with the added benefit that now, their whereabouts can be broadcast via the web to one and all.
In a way, I have to give them some grudging degree of acknowledgement for at least trying the higher-tech option; after all, these days a physical barrier seems, well, so Berlin Wall... so last-millennium.
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