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Technical site - technical solution - bodycams everywhere/everybody. Car dashcam costs $10 these days (and anyway video recording took a massive scale in the modern war like in Ukraine, so non-currently-fighting militaries better get used to it beforehand). In case of any questionable situation - presumed guilty until there is video clearly showing otherwise - thus no "battery issues", everybody would be carrying 2-3 bodycams and spare batteries just to be sure (already happening when it comes to drones, and soon every soldier will have several drones one way or another, drones are becoming widespread like guns and soldier carrying a gun has been normal for 500 years or so).

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I’m sure that will be very popular on top-secret military installations.

Even more so. You'd like everything recorded there. Encryption solves the leaking issue.

I hadn’t thought about it that way, but I see what you mean. The idea being the more important it is to know what really happened, the more important to record evidence as it happens, right?

I think our plan’s much bigger problems are ethical, social, legal, and political. And logical: odd to solve sexual misbehavior by routinely recording people while they’re naked. But a more technical critique for a technical solution:

Encryption or not, isn’t it axiomatic that you can’t hack or steal what doesn’t exist?

When our best and brightest protective schemes can’t protect the security files of all the cleared personnel in the US [0], or the bag of digital tricks the intelligence agencies use to hack with [1], is it technically wise to generate vastly more stuff worth stealing?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Manageme...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/06/theft...

Encryption does not solve the leaking issue because encryption keys are also subject to leaking.

Has this ever worked ? Dashcam footage was corrupted, or the dashcam didnt record.

Plus if a soldier is captured, now they have footage of their base and info?

Presumed guilty until proven innocent?

yes. Otherwise you'd have no interest in having bodycams working. And in military in many situations it is pretty typical that de-facto one is guilty until proven innocent, so no new approach here.

UCMJ is very very different than civilian law in a lot of aspects, it's not at all outside the realm of possibility to have certain high-value areas adopt something like the above out of an abundance of caution.

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