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City of Minneola firefighters exposed on web

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2008-03-17 10:27:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...City of Minneola (FL Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims City firefighters Number Affected 10 Types of Data names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers Breach Description The city of Minneola is being accused of violating federal, state and local laws. A union representative said several firefighters' personal...
 
Tags: city, city clerk error, city clerk, city firefighters, information, personal information, firefighters, city council, information act
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...City of Brotherly Love's Wi-Fi network isn't yet down, or down for the count. While it's scheduled to be flipped off tomorrow (you can read whatever you like into the phrase "flipped off"), the city is talking to a party it won't disclose about the networks future. EarthLink sued Phila. in May to be able to remove its equipment and cap its...
 
Tags: city, big-city network, residents oppose wi-fi, wi-fi, mount wi-fi radios, wi-fi hotzones, wi-fi network, network, network hardware
 
 
 
 
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Toronto Columnists: City Owned Exclusive Broadband a Good Deal

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2008-03-31 13:50:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...city that would supplant all privately supplied broadband to homes. I'm not kidding. Toronto Hydro is considering selling its telecom division, which includes its well-engineered but limited One Zone service (6 sq km of downtown This op-ed recommends that the city buy the division, and have it build service, which they estimate at about $100...
 
Tags: city, broadband, city budgets, city departments, city-wide fibrewireless network, broadband options, implement universal broadband, network, broadband firm
 
 
 
 
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Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees

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2008-02-12 15:03:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...City Schools Contractor/Consultant/Branch Systematic Automation Inc Victims School district employees Number Affected 3,500 Types of Data Names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers Breach Description A computer hard drive containing sensitive personal information belonging to Modesto City School district employees was...
 
Tags: district officials, district, district employees, school district, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, information, provide information
 
 
 
 
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Heavily Armed Officers on New York City Subways

2008-02-07 06:06:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city's subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday Under a tactical plan called Operation Torch, the officers will board trains and patrol platforms, focusing on sites like Pennsylvania Station, Herald Square,...
 
Tags: patrol platforms, subway system daily, patrol, tactical plan, officers, rockefeller center, city, times square, herald square
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Fon Founder Profiled; Creative No-Fi; Inspiair Physics-Fi; Foster City-Fi

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2008-05-27 13:17:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...City, Calif., turns down MetroFi equipment offer: The city decided against paying $200,000 for MetroFi's gear, which serves about 1,500 people a month, partly because yearly operations would top $125,000
 
Tags: fon, fon founder, foster city, fon locations, city, martin varsavsky, varsavsky, article, article partly details
 
 
 
 
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Cameras in the New York City Subways

2008-01-25 13:41:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...City's plan to secure its subways with a next-generation surveillance network is getting more expensive by the second, and slipping further and further behind schedule. A new report by the New York State Comptroller's office reveals that "the cost of the electronic security program has grown from $265 million to $450 million, an increase of...
 
Tags: york, york city, million, electronic security program, subway surveillance program, modern security network, stations, next-generation surveillance network, subway stations
 
 
 
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...city Wi-Fi network), and will be behind Cablevision's nearly $350m New York Wi-Fi plan MetroFi was the only major firm to back ad-supported no-fee access, coupled with paid, no-ads service, and higher tiered commercial offerings. They built mostly smaller cities, with Portland being their only real big city win. The firm began with the notion...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: St. Louis, Minneapolis, Tempe

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2008-04-12 21:15:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...city-wide Wi-Fi network--a lack of 24-hour-a-day power on utility poles--by building just a square mile out with nodes placd on traffic lights. The lack of power is rather difficult to overcome, and traffic lights are spaced too sparsely to replicate this deployment city-wide. AT&T is offering free, ad-supported 512 Kbps service and paid 1...
 
Tags: city, city-wide wi-fi network, network, deployment city-wide, city official, downtown wi-fi network, cancel, cancel gobility, gobility
 
 
 
 
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Dead, Dead, Dead: Cities Accept Muni-Fi's Absence

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2008-04-20 12:54:28 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...city-wide Wi-Fi network built by NeoReach-cu