Anyone who’s fired a pistol knows that they get a “muscle memory” from the grip. Well, the latest biometrics are being considered for pistols in order to authorize the person who grabs the grip, based on their muscles. Grab a hold of one and fire a few rounds and it should be able to distinguish you from anyone else.
Makes a lot of sense, and it could perhaps be useful in other high-risk pursuits where you need to get a grip on things (to protect assets, reduce vulnerabilities, or mitigate threats…or a combination of the three). The only down-side, of course, is that if you become tied to the device meant to be disabled without you…well, you are actually now part of the device and the risk that goes with it. So if you are the only person who can fire the pistol, then you may be actually forced to use it in a way that you wouldn’t if it could be used without you. The risk matrix changes. It never goes away. Anyway, an interesting update to the possibilities out there for authorization controls.
This is rather impressive. If you want to see the APRS info for your area, check out the query site. Very handy for Business Continuity portals…on the same note, I just added a weather plugin to the right. The best use might be if it can detect the weather of the person (IP) visiting, but for now it gives you a window into one of the environments I live in. If I’m feeling ambitious I might also add in a few surveillance images.
Well, I recently posted some security fixes to the photo log (plog) portion of the site and now WordPress has announced their 2.0 release is official, which means I’ll be doing some fiddling over the next few hours to test and perhaps migrate the site. I’m excited about all the new features, but what really caught my eye was the little slogan at the bottom of the WordPress site:
Excellent! Although if it were up to me I would suggest they change this to “Secure Code is Poetry”, since a lot of code is just plain crap, and crap really isn’t poetry at all. I mean you have to draw the line somewhere, right?
This is becoming all too common on the Internet: you have something stolen so you go online to see if you can get a good deal and suddenly realize the seller is the same person who stole the thing from you in the first place.
Today’s news is interesting because the man looking to replace his camera thought it odd that the seller was in the same town. This highlights the rather old adage “innocent until proven guilty” with the emphasis on the fact that the dumber the crook, the less likely they will be able to duck and cover once confronted with some basic facts.
In the retail industry eBay is sometimes the first place you look when things go missing. It almost lets the criminals implicate themselves for you, rather than requiring any kind of messy investigation. In fact, you might say that people can be awfully careful, if not downright sneaky, about theft just about up to the point where they post their warez online. And suddenly they’re in a whole new world with little idea of how to keep up the ruse. I almost felt sorry for one guy who went to jail. He was virtually invisible in the real world but lit up like a christmas tree online and probably never realized the connection.
