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Submission + - Major Terrorist Attack Strikes France (bbc.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: Terrorist gunmen claiming to be from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have stormed the building of a French publication Charlie Hebdo that had recently published a cartoon of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The gunmen are known to have killed eleven hostages so far and the situation is still ongoing. Currently, the BBC has the most information out of English news outlets. French speakers can consult the headline at Le Monde for more current news.

Comment Not a security threat (Score 1) 524

Terrorists don't need to know which plane they shoot down. Just pick a big one.

Assassins don't want to kill hundreds of people as collateral damage because they don't want to motivate law enfocement more than absolutely necessary.

There is no reason to use this app for targeting planes.

Comment Re:Leave well enough alone (Score 1) 1235

This law isn't to prevent you from taking pictures. Its to make it harder to take pictures with a very specific class of devices without being noticed.

The problem with this approach is that cell phone cameras are improving in quality. In a few years they will be good enough that many people will want to use them as their only camera.

Now imagine a wedding ceremony with 200 beeping cameras.

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