I’m a big fan of digital camera technology, and thus I usually am quick to support intelligent uses related to detective controls. Take for example a Bed & Breakfast that had issues with people loitering across the street dealing drugs. The B&B installed a camera, took some extracted video to the absent property owner and … Continue reading Auto-nomy no more
Many years ago I rode through the English country-side with an Archaeologist (her house was filled with bones from the Mary Rose excavation) who pointed out the economic reasons for the hedge-rows, the meaning of every stained-glass window…and, as we passed the Holbeche House in Staffordshire, she told me the end of the Gunpowder Plot. … Continue reading Lessons from Guy Fawkes
While many people regularly debate regulations and liabilities for software security bugs and vulnerabilities (e.g. on Schneier’s blog here and here), I thought I’d reference a November 3rd, 2005 bulletin from Consumer Affairs that Toyota dealers are selling cars that may “suddenly stall or shut down” due to a software bug: While the Toyota Motor … Continue reading Toyota dealers ignore serious software bug
Another interesting article from the TG Daily: “According to EFF attorneys, DOJ lawyers are ‘twisting’ existing laws such as CALEA and the Wiretap Act to obtain these warrants. Kevin Bankston, Staff Attorney with the EFF, says, ‘They are wholly misrepresenting the law. Some judges are calling them Hail Mary arguments.’”