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Technology« Previous Entries$20M Cameras at New York’s Freedom Tower Try to Detect ‘Anomalies’Monday, September 29th, 2008By David W. Dunlap | This is the scale of 1 World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, which is now beginning to emerge from below ground: the contract for the electronic security system alone is worth $20,407,680. Meeting last week for the first time within sight of ground zero, the commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey ... tagged TechnologyLancaster University develop product to prevent illegal file sharing in the officeFriday, September 19th, 2008A Lancaster University spin out company based in InfoLab21 has developed a tool to help businesses clamp down on illegal file sharing. Businesses can face serious consequences from illegal file sharing which takes place on their network whether the files contain confidential client data or copyrighted material such as music downloads. But many companies appear to be powerless to stop it.... tagged TechnologySecret Military TechnologyFriday, September 12th, 2008By Bruce Schneier | On 60 Minutes, in an interview with Scott Pelley, reporter Bob Woodward claimed that the U.S. military has a new secret technique that's so revolutionary, it's on par with the tank and the airplane: Woodward: This is very sensitive and very top secret, but there are secret operational capabilities that have been developed by the military to locate, target, and kill leaders of al Qaeda in ... tagged TechnologyGoogle Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles UpTuesday, September 9th, 2008Henry Blodget | The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don't leave your underwear lying all over your lawn. Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put together a cool video animation... tagged TechnologyDeath of Free Internet - Canada Will Be Test CaseTuesday, July 22nd, 2008In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in modern history because of the Internet. There are approximately 1 billion Internet users in the world and any one of these users can theoretically communicate in real time with any other on the planet. The Internet has been the greatest technological achievement of the 20th century by far, and ... tagged Internet, Technology and World-NewsMicrowave ray gun controls crowds with noiseTuesday, July 8th, 2008By David Hambling | A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) – exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be ... tagged Police-State and TechnologyHacker Appeals To House Of LordsTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By Christopher Nickson | A British hacker accused to accessing US military and Nasa computers has taken his case against extradition to the House of Lords, arguing it would breach his human rights. Gary McKinnon, known as Solo, has never denied that he hacked into 97 US military and Nasa computers from his London home in 2002. ...
tagged Technology and UK-NewsU.S. School District to Begin Microchipping StudentsTuesday, June 17th, 2008 By David Gutierrez | A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would ...
tagged RFID, Technology and USA-NewsTake innocent people’s DNA off database, says Welsh MPWednesday, June 11th, 2008 IC Wales | INNOCENT people would have their DNA taken off the Government’s controversial database under plans put forward by a Welsh MP. Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, will present a private Bill in the Commons today to reform the way the huge DNA register is run.
Almost one in 10 people in Wales have their data ...
tagged Database-State, Technology and UK-NewsGait Recognition Software Proposed For Surveillance At A DistanceTuesday, June 10th, 2008 Red Orbit | Biometrics is commonly associated retinal scans, iris recognition and DNA databases, but researchers in India are working on another form of biometrics that could allow law enforcement agencies and airport security to recognize suspects based on the way they were, their characteristic gait. The team reveals details of a comprehensive framework for gait recognition by computer in ...
tagged Big-Brother, Technology and USA-NewsIn-flight surveillance in every seatMonday, June 2nd, 2008 New Scientist | CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could be next. A prototype European system uses multiple cameras and "Big Brother" software to try and automatically detect terrorists or other dangers caused by passengers.
The European Union's Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) project uses a camera in ...
tagged Technology, Terrorism and World-NewsOrwellian Ubiquitous Computing?Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 By Daniel Taylor | "...just by walking down the street you could be subject to a personal biometric system, you could be scanned by the gateway of the transit system, there could be something embedded in the street or in the flooring beneath you... you could be touching other tangible interfaces in the environment around you... the ...
tagged Big-Brother, Technology and World-NewsSchneier: Our Data, OurselvesSaturday, May 24th, 2008 By Bruce Schneier | In the information age, we all have a data shadow. We leave data everywhere we go. It's not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing every credit card purchase and telephone call we make. It's automatic road-toll collection systems, supermarket affinity cards, ATMs and so on.
It's also our lives. Our love ...
tagged TechnologyAmerica’s Chemically Modified 21st Century SoldiersMonday, May 5th, 2008 By Clayton Dach | Amphetamines and the military first met somewhere in the fog of WWII, when axis and allied forces alike were issued speed tablets to head off fatigue on the battlefield.
More than 60 years later, the U.S. Air Force still doles out dextro-amphetamine to pilots whose duties do not afford them the luxury ...
tagged Technology, USA-News and WarfareEnglish village to be invaded in spybot competitionMonday, May 5th, 2008 By Ceri Perkins | A village in south-west England will shortly be swarming with robots competing to show off their surveillance skills. The event is the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) answer to the US DARPA Grand Challenge that set robotic cars against one another to encourage advances in autonomous vehicles.
The MoD Grand Challenge is instead designed to boost development of ...
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