New police radars can ‘see’ inside homes

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• You can be sure that these devices, like all their predecessors, are considered purely for nefarious reasons, and if they can be used for anything other than the purposes they are allegedly "intended" for, so much the better.

  Nothing is developed, with vigour, for the GOOD of the public at large, but merely for increased revenue and/or control.

• If this is the civilian / LEO version, you just know there's a military version out there that's better. Just need to find what frequency they operate at, not too hard to build a jammer, I bet the Russians already have.

• If you have an older home with plaster walls:
  1. find a suitable electrical outlet,
  2. chip away a small bit of plaster to expose the support wire,
  3. using a small piece of spare wire, connect the support wire to the ground wire behind the outlet,
  4. replace the original faceplate with an oversize faceplate.
  5. ???
  6. PROFIT!

• Using this without a warrant is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. Make your case and most judges will grant a search warrant. It's truly not that difficult to get one.

  The excuses cited are lame and those who made them know it.

• Like so many other technologies/inventions, there's the likelihood of it being used inappropriately.

  When being used properly I'm all for such devices.

  • You know this will be used for bad purposes, you just know it.

• I have no problem with this. All it does is detect motion and relative distance of the object in motion. Seems like a tool that has the potential to save lives of cops serving warrants. Also would benefit SWAT teams breaching a building to know how many bad guys and roughly where they are inside.

  • "The problem isn't that the police have this. The issue isn't the technology; the issue is always about how you use it and what the safeguards are," said Hanni Fakhoury, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

    There's the point. Also, read the full story. 1) There are already radars in use use more sensitive than that and 2) Technology ALWAYS advances. No, I have no problem with the use of any of them. As long as they aren't penetrating the Constitution.

    • Oh great! I got 404'd! Time to edit the post again!

      This reminds me of the full body scan at the airport. How long before someone is using this to post sex videos online?

      • This unit isn't capable of that kind of look-see, but I'm sure they're working on one that is.

        • That's what they said about the airport scanners, yet people were saving the pictures of women's body scans. If it's not that good of a picture, why save them?

        • This one only detects the existence and movement of people.

        • http://thomaspluck.com/2008/07/01/j-a-f-o-blue-thunder-still-rocks/

          what, do they have temperature parameters they use to not "see" cats, dogs, monkeys, apes, budgies?

        • Most likely goes by how large the heat and movement signature is. Still an invasion, in my book.

  • It goes to say that i don't plan on going jihadi and holding hostages nor do I anticipate having a SWAT team blast down my door to arrest me for some heinous crime. I imagine this device will have liberals foaming at their vaginas with indignation ( yes, liberal men have vaginas ).

    • Not Just Liberals but true Conservatives as well.

      Remember when being a Conservative meant being against Big Government. Can't get much bigger government than this.

• Oh GEEZUZ. Now I'm going to have to get my girlfriend one of THESE for her birthday.