[liberationtech] Vandalism and Video Surveillance

[Karl's Phone]

Sean,

My personal experience with public spaces in New England, USA is that
somebody else will surreptitiously install their own surveillance if I do
not.

I recommend ensuring public spaces in areas with any criminal or government
presence be reasonably monitored and all logs made completely public.

Where is your space?  It sounds great!

-Karl
On Mar 17, 2014 5:59 AM, "Sean Alexandre" <sean at alexan.org> wrote:

> We have a strange problem at our hackerspace, with minor vandalism. At
> first it
> seemed like someone was just being messy, but now it looks malicious.
>
> As one simple example, we recently had a work day to organize the space.
> Parts
> were put in boxes based on what they were: hard drives, networking
> equipment,
> etc.  One box had phones, and had four simple touch-tone phones. Someone
> took
> each of them and put them randomly in other boxes.
>
> There have been other things like this, some worse. We have another room
> with
> wood and metal working tools, and someone took tools and parts out of their
> containers and spread them around the room.
>
> I have to say that I'm not at the space enough to give details on
> everything
> that's happened.  But, the general consensus now seems to be that what's
> happening is being done maliciously.
>
> Some have spoken in favor of installing video cameras, to surveil the
> space, as
> a way to stop this.
>
> Others, me included, really don't want to see video surveillance in the
> space.
>
> Any thoughts on what to do?
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Crossposted [1] earlier to discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org [2]
>
> [1]
> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-March/thread.html#9154
> [2] http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
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