Loose Lips Sink Ships

Or in this case flash bulbs.

In this article on BBCnews it talks about how current amateur photographers are being caught up in misplaced fears that they could be terrorist. I do understand the concern, but it seems that it is going overboard and current British propaganda is helping to spread this fear. In this day and age cameras are practically everywhere from cellphones to slim point-n-shoots though the article focuses on people with professional looking cameras like a SLR. Now if I'm a terrorist do you think I want to bring attention to myself by wiping out a toaster sized camera? No I use my 3.2 megapixel cellphone to get the shots I need.

Also with current CCTV in Britain it just kind of seems like a mute point to get citizens worked up about these sorts of things. Maybe I'm treating this too lightly and maybe its a legitimate concern since we are in a war on ambiguous terror. Why not just add terror of Amateur Photographers to the list.

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