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Isn't the shutter sound, even where required by law, kind of pointless because unsavory users could just take a video instead of taking a picture? That's probably what perverts prefer anyway.

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A true pervert ostensibly might appreciate the additional megapixels offered by a still image over under-sampled auto-compressed video.

A quality-minded pervert would probably just buy a $150 digital point-n-shoot. Just as many megapixels, no shutter sound, and much better optical components.

and people in the train will see you with a digital camera instead of a multi-use device like a phone.

A technical pervert would take a HD video with their phone and then use multiple frames to mathematically extract even higher-resolution stills from it:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kalyans/research/snapshots/supp...

Let's hope to God people on Hacker News don't start taking upskirt shots.

They would get in arguments about the latest up-sampling frameworks and never ship anything.

"I'm not a pervert! I'm testing my app which has a target market of perverts!"

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