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Parents who say "No" to guns, but also "No" to metal detectors?

2008-04-21 13:53:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Metal Detectors". The word "Why" kept ringing in my ears as I read the story. Apparently, many parents feel that metal detectors in schools make the schools seem like camps or prisons. Surprisingly, consensus is building against the machines even at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, where last week, three loaded guns were found in a...
 
Tags: school, school shootings, metal detectors, detectors, parents, metal detector, school killings, metal detector saves, time
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...metal casings with "reactive materials," normally harmless matter that combines to release explosive amounts of energy on impact, tearing targets apart with violent fury In development for more than 30 years, the research is beginning to bear fruit, and may soon spawn more powerful bombs, warheads that tear apart stone and concrete, mines...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security?

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2008-06-04 12:26:56 by HASH0x8b3dfdc in StillSecure, After All These Years
...metal detector line which had no one on it, just waiting for me. Again skipping another line. I put my computer and other metal objects in the same old grey bin, took off my shoes and went through the metal detector. I thanked the Clear escort came out the other side, scooped up my stuff and proceeded to my gate. The entire process took less...
 
Tags: security, security line, airport security program, line, security procedures, background check, check, security obligations, background
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security

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2008-06-04 13:26:24 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...metal detector line which had no one on it, just waiting for me. Again skipping another line. I put my computer and other metal objects in the same old grey bin, took off my shoes and went through the metal detector. I thanked the Clear escort came out the other side, scooped up my stuff and proceeded to my gate. The entire process took less...
 
Tags: security, security line, airport security program, line, security procedures, background check, check, security obligations, background
 
 
 
 
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Magnetic Ring Attack on Electronic Locks

2008-06-18 06:35:16 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...metal part on an axe that turns because of a changing magnetic field. Turning electro magnets on and off will generate a pulling force on the metal part, making it rotate. The ring does the same thing. By turning the ring, the metal part in the electro motor starts turning, opening the lock. As Rop suggested in the comments of the previous...
 
Tags: electronic motor lock, electro motor, electro motor starts, electronic motor, motor, magnetic field, lock, coil, metal
 
 
 
 
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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...metal spoon, and rubber bands which could launch a cotton ball soaked in alcohol 20 ft. The catapult itself could even be operated remotely by using a piece of dental floss to release the firing pin. The way I figured it, I could open a flame a safe distance from my explosive, run to my makeshift bomb shelter (a foxhole), launch the catapult,...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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What's holding back NAC?

2008-03-22 01:39:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...metal onto open flame may affect the metal, wont feed the flame, makes for great steaks Chris, an ex-Lockdowner, gives his take on the NAC industry in his recent post-Lockdown blog and Im in general agreement, but perhaps for different reasons I dont see NAC going away. It definitely has some growing to do, but it will grow and it will be...
 
Tags: nac, product, nac product-, nac vendors domino, solution, nac solution, standards, nac standards, nac industry
 
 
 
 
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Copper Thieves are the New Gold Diggers

2008-05-12 02:15:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...metal dealer in Chicago. The dealer became suspicious and notified Police. The two men worked at a munitions factory and the copper they were trying to sell were casings from 1.5 million rounds of ammunition. One of them is now facing a prison sentence of 245 years for stealing from the military during wartime In Hot Springs, Arkansas,...
 
Tags: copper, thieves, visible copper, copper caps, thieves hit, scrap metal dealer, dealer, police, hit construction sites
 
 
 
 
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Prison Break

2007-12-19 05:10:15 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Details: Police said Espinosa and Blunt were in adjacent cells and used a long metal wire to scrape away mortar around the cinder block between their cells and the outer wall in Espinosa's cell. Once the cement block between the
 
Tags: cells, adjacent cells, cement block, cinder block, outer wall, espinosa, metal wire, police, details