Weighing security and privacy after Sept. 11 These guys are pretty much saying what I’ve been saying. (Maybe I should be on a panel somewhere?) That all of these wonderful ideas to make us feel safer, would not, in fact, make us any safer. But it would make us all a lot less free. Lots…
How the terror trail went unseen This is an interesting article, as it explains that not everything you hear politicians and the media ranting against had anything to do with the terrorist attack. In fact, in my own experience, almost none of what I’ve heard suggested by media and politicians would actually stop terrorists! It…
I just got done listening to a round table discussion of UCITA. Now I’ll grant you, I don’t know alot about UCITA, but just using common sense I would have to question the ideas presented by the pro-UCITA people. (Who work for AOL by the way, but that did not make me anti-UCITA immediately *L*)…
Guardian Unlimited | Netnews | Girls: it’s your future too Interesting stuff. If the demographics of Gnomedex are any indication the same problem exists in America, not many girls are interested in “geek stuff”.
Can biometric systems foil terrorists? Probably not–but try telling that to Wall Street. That’s an interesting statistic. If a terrorist is one person in a million, and the software is incorrect once every 10,000 faces it scans, then 1000 people will be identified inaccurately for every one terrorist who is caught. And once you’ve been…
‘I know who you called last month’ Nice, this always makes me feel so safe!