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It’s not inconceivable that they’ll follow their victims for a bit to make sure that the face recognition doesn’t have a glitch.

Apparently you can also recognize someone by the way they walk, so if you’ve recorded that before, getting them to run around for a bit provides an extra level of identification.



Thank you for your comforting assurances.


Simply pop a small pebble in your shoe to change your gait /s


Unless, of course, you don't care about collateral damage, in which case you might well kill first, verify second.


Of course, but then you don’t use a stupid drone. You drop a hellfire missile from 10km up.


If you're a nation state maybe. The question here is how far down the cost of drones like these will go, and how easy it will be to contain the technology.




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