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Skyhook Expands Wi-Fi Positioning to Cell, GPS

2008-06-30 10:25:33 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...cell tower signals for better location: The pitch at Skyhook Wireless is that despite its accuracy, satellite-based GPS remains relatively expensive, that it's slow to get a fix when it powers up, and that it's not accurate enough in the middle of cities. Their XPS 2.0 system leverages GPS with the advantages of Skyhook's Wi-Fi signal...
 
Tags: gps, wi-fi, a-gps, stand-alone gps gear, gps system grab, skyhook, gps-only device, gps chips, gps radios
 
 
 
 
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Kids with Cell Phones in Emergencies

2008-08-14 12:20:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cell phones can help, there's at least one person who gets it. Since the 1999 Columbine High School shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, many parents feel better having a way to contact their children. But hundreds of students on cell phones during an emergency can cause problems for responders There's a huge difference between feeling...
 
Tags: cell phones, irrational security decisions, trump, expedite parental traffic, kenneth trump, national school safety, huge difference, cell phone, terrorist attacks
 
 
 
 
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Detecting Nuclear Weapons Using the Cell Phone Network

2008-02-01 12:54:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cell phones equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light residues of radioactive material. Because cell phones already contain global positioning locators, the network of phones would serve as a tracking system, said physics professor Ephraim Fischbach. Fischbach is working with Jere Jenkins, director of Purdue's radiation...
 
Tags: network, detection system, phones, system, cell phones, radiation sensors, nationwide sensor network, portable electronic products, require additional circuitry
 
 
 
 
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Cell Phone Spying

2008-05-09 06:27:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cell phone towers and GPS systems to pinpoint anyones exact whereabouts, any time as long as theyve got their phone on them All you have to do is log on to the web site and enter the target phone number. The site sends a single text message to the phone that requires one response for confirmation. Once the response is sent, you are locked in...
 
Tags: phone, cell phone, target phone, cell phone towers, service, service promises, location, exact location, single text message
 
 
 
 
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Student antics with cell phones, iPods means heartburn for school IT staff

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Student antics with cell phones, iPods, and social-networking sites means heartburn for school IT staff charged with network security
 
Tags: student antics, cell phones, network security, staff, ipods, school, heartburn, sites
 
 
 
 
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Intelius axes cell phone directory

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Bowing to pressure from consumers and Verizon, Washington-based information commerce company Intelius has announced that it will shut down its online cell phone directory
 
Tags: pressure, verizon, consumers
 
 
 
 
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Cell phone backup for the security or technologically challenged

2008-03-18 12:13:51 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Not everyone is willing to connect their cell phone to their PC--or capable of doing so (e.g. security or knowledge constraints). So what happens to all those contacts entered into the phone over time, especially if the phone is lost or stolen
 
Tags: phone, cell phone, knowledge constraints, security, contacts, time, capable, connect, lost
 
 
 
 
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Safest way to bank online? Your cell phone

2008-05-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0b740 in Network World on Security
 
So you want to bank safely online? Then ditch your computer and make the transaction via your cell phone instead
 
Tags: cell phone, bank safely online, ditch, transaction, computer
 
 
 
 
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Sucking Data off of Cell Phones

2008-09-03 06:03:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Cellular Seizure Investigation Stick, or CSI Stick as a clever acronym. It is manufactured by a company called Paraben, and is a self-contained module about the size of a BIC lighter. It plugs directly into most Motorola and Samsung cell phones to capture all data that they contain. More phones will be added to the list, including many from...
 
Tags: phones, capture, electronic capture device, samsung cell phones, news article, law enforcement, intelligence operations, csi stick, clever acronym
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cell ph