(via Woody) Bruce Sterling once said:

“a G.I. Homeland-Security Cellphone could be a very capable and scary little object. If every American cellphone became a Black Box, a hardened recorder and camera, aimed, owned, and controlled by a citizen, that device would be the Minuteman rifle for modern netwar. They’re “wingless angels” already. With an upgrade like that, they’d be wingless scorpions…”

And here’s a reddit thread discussing the same kind of phone technology.

We’re going to need this to happen. It’s not that hard. What happens next is interesting…