The Boston thing - here's what I would like to know

[dreamshark]

How did the police go from identifying two suspicious looking guys on a street surveillance camera to knowing their names?  Is the Surveillance Society already so far advanced that all you have to do is point your facial recognition software at a blurry picture of a couple of guys in baseball caps and shades and you get back their names?

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[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

There's so much conflicting information being reported right now that I'm far from certain what's accurate and what's not, but I saw a credible-looking report that the police didn't have the suspects names until finding ID on Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body after he died in the first, big shootout in Watertown Thursday night.

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

I read in one source that their aunt (Canadian) identified them, saying to authorities something to the effect of "Those are my nephews, you must be mistaken."

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

this link from the Washington Post has an outline
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-investigation-of-the-boston-marathon-bombing/2013/04/20/19d8c322-a8ff-11e2-b029-8fb7e977ef71_story.html

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Where it says, "Once the photos of the men in caps were made public Thursday, the FBI tip line filled with calls, including one from the brothers’ aunt, who provided her nephews’ identity, according to federal law enforcement officials."