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When does a bodyguard need to shoot into a crowd?

2008-06-24 23:28:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...crowd of people and killed a man While professional Executive Protection Agents no longer refer to themselves as "bodyguards", if we nonetheless examine that "handle", we can break it down as; "a person who guards (protects) the body of another". If I was tasked with the investigation of this shooting incident in India, one of the very...
 
Tags: bodyguard, people, assault people, india, fair price, price, crowd, experience, life
 
 
 
 
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Robot + Super Gun = 'Crowd Control'

2008-05-27 21:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Electronic-gun developer Metal Storm has been working with iRobot to develop a rapid-fire bot capable of firing up to a million rounds per minute. Such advanced technology could be applied to border patrol or crowd control
 
Tags: crowd control, rapid-fire bot capable, million rounds, border patrol, irobot, develop, minute, technology
 
 
 
 
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How effective is the wisdom of crowds as a security mechanism?

2007-12-21 15:26:10 by Tyler Moore in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...crowd, the more robust it should be against errors and perhaps even manipulation by attackers Not so fast. We studied the submission and voting records of PhishTanks users, and our results are published in a paper appearing at Financial Crypto next month. It turns out that participation is very skewed. While PhishTank has several thousand...
 
Tags: phishtank, phishtank compare, leaves phishtank, users, phishtanks users, vote maliciously, vote, active users, urls
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...crowd behavior amid dense urban environments, to serve as a test-bed for experimentation," says Torrens. "The idea is to use the model to test hypotheses, real-world plans and strategies that are not very easy, or are impossible to test in practice Such as the following: 1) simulate how a crowd flees from a burning car toward a single...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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Monday Potpourri

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2008-06-09 10:04:18 by HASH0x8ae18f0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...crowd is putting their numbers on the street. 200+m is a lot of revenue, even for an AV company and 40+m to the bottom line is impressive, but until you are public, no one is holding your feet to the fire and analyst coverage is just not the same 2. Apple is ready to enter the platform war - Larry Dignan over at ZDNet has some good comments...
 
Tags: platform, platform war, roi, security roi, security, viable platform, mac, financial analyst crowd, mac versions
 
 
 
 
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Monday Potpourri

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2008-06-09 11:04:18 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...crowd is putting their numbers on the street. 200+m is a lot of revenue, even for an AV company and 40+m to the bottom line is impressive, but until you are public, no one is holding your feet to the fire and analyst coverage is just not the same Authors note: Dr. Jan Hruska , co-founder of Sophos wrote me off line and gave me permission to...
 
Tags: platform, platform war, roi, security roi, security, webtop platform, mac, mac versions, viable platform
 
 
 
 
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RSA Day 1: Tuesday with JJ

2008-04-09 15:22:55 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...crowd and ran into Lisa Lorenzin and fellow TNCers at the TCG (Trusted Computing Group) booth. Im hoping to re-visit there today and see some of the interoperability demos. They had a pretty steady crowd there yesterday Of course I stopped by the ISC 2 booth and have a t-shirt to show for that. (Remind me, I have another tidbit to share with...
 
Tags: day, booth, microsoft booth, stillsecure booth, stillsecure, winmagic booth, expo floor, rsa, information week
 
 
 
 
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McAfee's open source statements are fighting words to Matt Asay

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2008-04-15 08:47:01 by HASH0x8b572d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...crowd So here is my problem with Matt's positions. Number one on the white paper, I don't think McAfee was talking about Linux versus Windows at all (as much as Matt would like to think so). I think McAfee is referring to open source applications like dynamic domain name systems (DDNS) and other open source enabling technologies. There is...
 
Tags: source, matt, source brings, matt asay, source applications, linux, linux versus windows, source watchdog, mcafee
 
 
 
 
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I guess they just don't make them like they used too - horses that is

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2008-06-07 18:03:15 by HASH0x8af6da8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...crowd. Just the next year, Affirmed won all three triple crown races, each one in a neck and neck battle with Alydar . What series that was, with Steve Cauthen pushing Affirmed to the win each time, but Alydar was the favorite of the crowd. What hearts the both of those horses had if you would have told me after Affirmed won in 1978, that I...
 
Tags: triple crown, triple crown races, triple crown campaign, triple crown winner, triple crown winners, horses, horse, horse wins, belmont