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Bus Defended Against Terrorists Who Want to Reenact the Movie Speed

2008-06-10 12:31:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bus -- slowing it down to 5 mph and preventing it from restarting once it has stopped. The device has been installed on thousands of local commuter and tourist buses The technology is designed to prevent a terrorist from ramming a bus filled with people and explosives into buildings or tunnels Private bus companies have received millions of...
 
Tags: bus, bus drivers, bus companies, decamp bus lines, buses, tourist buses, technology helps, technology, commuter buses
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: General Commuter-Fi, Microsoft Bus-Fi, Nikon S52c

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2008-04-10 14:15:19 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...buses, and seems to be gradually expanding service Microsoft expands its commuter bus system: The Wi-Fi equipped buses will grow to handle 4,600 riders a day from the current 1,800. A good friend will now have a 5-block walk from his Seattle home instead of a sort of impossible bus commute or a tedious daily drive. Microsoft was late to the...
 
Tags: wi-fi planet runs, wi-fi, internal wi-fi, system, commuter bus system, service, online service, commuter vehicle wi-fi, free bus service
 
 
 
 
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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bus? Don't put your kids on the bus The second way we process risk is analytical: we use probability and statistics to override, or at least prioritize, our dread. That is, our brain plays devil's advocate with its initial intuitive reaction, and tries to say, "I know it seems scary, but eight times as many people die in cars as they do on...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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My Supergeek Moment on the Way to Work

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2007-11-02 22:08:09 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Bus service , with Snoqualmie Ridge as one of the neighborhoods, I thought that it would be a good opportunity for me to support Microsoft "green" environmental efforts by driving to work less and using this service. One of the cool things about the Connector is that they have wireless connectivity, so you can catch up on email and surf...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft recently, weeks ago microsoft, supergeek moment, moment, snoqualmie, bus, snoqualmie ridge, connector bus
 
 
 
 
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Transport-Fi: Wired Reviews Air-Fi; Buses Break out the Internet

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2008-06-12 10:22:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...buses: The New York Daily News checks in on the trend to put Internet access via Wi-Fi on board East Coast buses. The article notes that Greyhound's new sidewalk-pickup BoltBus service among corridor cities has provoked the long-running Chinatown buses to bolt on Wi-Fi as well. The Chinatown Bus Association says here that their bus tickets...
 
Tags: connexion service, service, sidewalk-pickup boltbus service, access, cost roughly, internet access, roughly, cost, bus
 
 
 
 
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Pocono Mountain School District "irregularities"

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2008-06-02 12:36:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bus assignment, free/reduced lunch status, home phone, primary home mailing address, secondary mailing address, parent names, parent phone numbers, emergency contact names, and emergency contact phone numbers Breach Description An apparent cyber break-in of Pocono Mountain School District's computer system has put at potential risk personal...
 
Tags: district, school, contact, promptly contact, school district enrollment, information, personal information, emergency contact names, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Zune Killer App - Windows Media Center

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2007-11-26 21:55:40 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Bus to work , I watched Heroes Season 2, Episode 7, "Out of Time" and found out the surprising identity of "Adam Monroe." I'll watch Episode 8 on the way home... And My TV Movies Too And, it doesn't stop there. As I described previously , I've been building up quite a library of TV Movies, cutting out commercials, compressing them and...
 
Tags: zune, apple tv, apple, tv, tv movies, zune software, zune tv comparison, media center, windows media center
 
 
 
 
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Building My Windows Vista Media Center (VMC) - Part 3 - MyMovies2

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2007-11-02 23:52:49 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Bus click and read, if you don't know what I mean Previous posts about building my Vista Media Center Part 1 - The System Part 2 - The Tuner I posted part 2 back in June, so it has been a while, but I wanted to continue documenting my media center project and I can't help but talk about the MyMovies2 plug-in next Create Your Own "Movies On...
 
Tags: media center, movie, movie title, home media center, movie file, media center plug-in, vista media center, record movies, record
 
 
 
 
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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bus drivers. "There's still no reason to believe that there was criminal intent or that he did anything with the information he was able to retrieve," Bromery said. [Evan] Breaking into the school's computer systems is against the law. Michael Wasa also had " credit card generators" in his possession. Yet, "There's still no reason to believe...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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Troubleshooting IEEE 1394 bus devices for Windows machines