Should you be worried about Video Girl Barbie?

Umm… no. It’s a doll with a video camera in it. Whoop-de-doo. It’s not like a shark with a fricken’ laser beam on its head.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2010/12/fbi_alert_barbie_doll_may_be_u.html

The FBI, however, thinks it could be a ploy exploited by pedophiles to make child pornography.

Errrmmm… ok, I may not be all that well versed in how one goes about making child porn, but it seems to me that a crappy-quality video camera embedded in a crappy toy would be of less interest than an actual video camera. Video cameras embedded in small & cheap point-n-click cameras are bound to be far better than this thing, and just as concealable (rather more so, as some creepy guy wandering around with a Barbie doll is likely to draw more attention than some creep guy wandering around wearing a jacket with a PNC camera lens peeking out a buttonhole).

But, hey, whatever works when it comes to ratchetting up the fearlevel, yah?