And hence we get groped or porno-scanned at every airport check in, and secret no fly lists which are good enough to stop people with names vaguely similar to possible terrorists from flying but which are not accurate enough for use as lists of people who shouldn&#x27;t be permitted to buy guns.<p>Do you think that&#x27;s an appropriate response? Especially since it seems to be almost universally true that every time the TSA is tested, weapons still get through the checkpoints with startling regularity.<p>Sorry, but I still see this as kneejerk reactions to spectacularly unlikely scenarios of &quot;bad things happening&quot; being proposed and regulated by people who don&#x27;t care about reducing other people&#x27;s freedom because it won&#x27;t affect them personally.<p>I&#x27;m still unsure what you&#x27;re suggesting &quot;shouldn&#x27;t be allowed&quot; here? Open sourcing computer vision projects? Publishing on github? SHould all hobbyists leave face detection algorithms to Facebook and Apple and Google, because someone else might misuse the results (worse that Zuckerberg already does)? It&#x27;s all extremely reminiscent of the &quot;crypto wars&quot; and Homeland Security&#x27;s new &quot;House Un-American Mathematics Committee&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;puellavulnerata&#x2F;status&#x2F;672903452222218241" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;puellavulnerata&#x2F;status&#x2F;67290345222221824...</a><p>Me? I&#x27;m 100% for publishing this(and similar) projects - because the tech is already out there and being used. Pretty much every towtruck and repo man has had this tech running for 5+ years, and almost nobody knows. Why is it a problem now that sufficiently motivated geeks can roll their own for ~$100 and a weekend&#x27;s futzing around? Same with using promiscuous wifi adapters or TV-tuner SDRs to sniff MAC addresses or TMSIs - shopping malls and law enforcement are routinely using that tech to track you, I reckon more art projects showing how simple and creepy it is would be a good thing.<p>There&#x27;s another movie-plot bomb detonator for you - an UberTooth One (or $5 Chinese counterfeit wifi adaptor in promiscuous mode) listening for the MAC address of your phone&#x2F;smartwatch&#x2F;tablet. What&#x27;re we going to have to ban in response to that idea?<p>(I know, lets ban _ideas!_... (Sorry, that&#x27;s way snarkier than intended...))