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BriefCam can't discuss if its products are being used in the
Boston Marathon Bombing investigation, but some of named
customers include a U.S. federal agency, Stew Leonard's and the
People's Republic of China.  Video played a strong role in
finding the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, but it was
mostly old-style detecting that appeared to do the trick as the
FBI and police pored through hours of clips collected on
bystanders' phones, then put it out for crowd-sourcing help.
Chances are good that the next time an attacker targets a major
American city, institutional surveillance will play a more
sophisticated role, perhaps in stopping an attack and certainly
in sorting out what happened in the event of another. Some of
that work, in fact, is already underway.  If last week's bombing
woke up the public to the value of widespread street cameras,
that wasn't the case for people