Archive - March, 2007

Border computer checking

I am not surprised by this. Border officials trying to search a laptop. I don’t even want to count the number of forensics rules they broke because I might loose count.

If I didn’t like my current employer so much, maybe they would hire me to do that work – although I expect I’d get bored really quickly.

How I became a music pirate

Nothing new, but the write-up on what you have to go through to be “legal” was very well done.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/drm/how-i-became-a-music-pirate-245644.php

Terrorists proving harder to profile

What gets me is many very intelligent security researchers and consultants have been saying this since before 9/11 — profiling won’t work, need to assess behaviour, personality etc. Israel has this figured out and implemented years ago. 5 years later, oh maybe we should listen to them!

Super Soldiers – be all that you can be

Having success with making soldiers super strong and resistant to pain and environmental conditions.

Can’t help but think this will do something bad to them when they are older.

Amie Street signs major artists to sell DRM-free music

This company has signed up BNL, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan. Anti-DRM might finally be getting some long overdue momentum.

Who needs clothes?

Check this out: Now when you go on a flight the TSA can see a detailed image of you as if you had no clothes!

The best part is the fact that it takes a “detailed” digital image of your body, but shows an “obscured” version for the TSA screener. No worries, they always delete the original digital image so it MUST be a good thing :(