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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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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...buses. In fact, only one person dies on a bus for every 500 million miles buses travel. Buses are safer than cars Unfortunately for us, that's often not the voice that wins. Intuitive risk processors can easily overwhelm analytical ones, especially in the presence of those etched-in images, sounds and experiences. Intuition is so strong, in...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...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 dollars from the Department of Homeland Security for the security systems. It costs $1,500 to equip each bus, with $50-per-bus monthly maintenance costs Gray...
 
Tags: bus, bus drivers, bus companies, decamp bus lines, buses, tourist buses, technology helps, technology, commuter buses
 
 
 
 
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Hacking the Boeing 787

2008-01-07 12:38:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...buses and servers. Therefore, special conditions are imposed to ensure that security, integrity, and availability of the aircraft systems and data networks are not compromised by certain wired or wireless electronic connections between airplane data buses and networks But, honestly, this isn't nearly enough information to work with. Normally,...
 
Tags: data, airplane data buses, on-board computer networks, networks, systems, control systems, communication systems, control, aircraft data 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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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want The surest defense against terrorism...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Utah's FrontRunner Commuter Rail Unwired

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2008-06-13 13:34:53 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...buses, too The network is backed by fiber that runs alongside the track, which can make a huge difference in the ability to bring in backhaul. Other train lines have to work with either or both cellular and satellite backhaul, although Nomad typically uses fixed WiMax, as they are in this deployment. They're finishing up a 600 km London to...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi service requires, rail, rail authority, authority, in-transit wi-fi, free wi-fi, authority offers wi-fi, service
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

2008-06-26 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...Buses are getting the same capability , in case terrorists want to re-enact the movie Speed . The Pentagon wants a kill switch installed on airplanes, and is worried about potential enemies installing kill switches on their own equipment Microsoft is doing some of the most creative thinking along these lines, with something it's calling "...
 
Tags: security, wireless devices, devices, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Random Stupidity in the Name of Terrorism

2008-07-03 12:57:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...buses Wednesday, killing three people before Israeli police shot him dead. Israeli authorities are labeling it a terrorist attack, although they say there is no clear motive and the man -- a construction worker -- acted alone. It is not known if he had links to any terrorist organization. Boston public school locked down after someone saw a...
 
Tags: police, israeli police shot, giraffe, terrorist, israeli authorities, giraffe helps camels, authorities, boston public school, terrorist organization
 
 
 
 
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Kill Switches and Remote Control

2008-07-01 06:48:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Buses are getting the same capability , in case terrorists want to re-enact the movie Speed . The Pentagon wants a kill switch installed on airplanes, and is worried about potential enemies installing kill switches on their own equipment. Microsoft is doing some of the most creative thinking along these lines, with something it's calling "...
 
Tags: wireless devices, devices, devices inevitably, digital manners policies, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students