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Fix your jumpy optical mouse

2008-03-05 06:19:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...optical mice. I started with a Logitech mouse and recently switched to a Microsoft mouse (Wireless Laser Mouse 6000). During the time I've owned these mice I've been frustrated by how they would jump around from time to time In the old days, I knew that to fix a standard mouse, you'd simply open the undercarriage, pop out the little ball, and...
 
Tags: mouse, optical mouse, wireless laser mouse, logitech mouse, microsoft mouse, standard mouse, optical sensor lies, optical sensor, wired mouse
 
 
 
 
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Fix your jumpy optical mouse

2008-03-05 13:19:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...optical mice. I started with a Logitech mouse and recently switched to a Microsoft mouse (Wireless Laser Mouse 6000). During the time I've owned these mice I've been frustrated by how they would jump around from time to time In the old days, I knew that to fix a standard mouse, you'd simply open the undercarriage, pop out the little ball, and...
 
Tags: mouse, optical mouse, wireless laser mouse, logitech mouse, microsoft mouse, standard mouse, optical sensor lies, optical sensor, wired mouse
 
 
 
 
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Fix your jumpy optical mouse

2008-03-05 13:19:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...optical mice. I started with a Logitech mouse and recently switched to a Microsoft mouse (Wireless Laser Mouse 6000). During the time I've owned these mice I've been frustrated by how they would jump around from time to time In the old days, I knew that to fix a standard mouse, you'd simply open the undercarriage, pop out the little ball, and...
 
Tags: mouse, optical mouse, wireless laser mouse, logitech mouse, microsoft mouse, standard mouse, optical sensor lies, optical sensor, wired mouse
 
 
 
 
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Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter-Verifiable Optical- Scan Voting

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...optical scan voting systems. It's part of an emerging class of "end-to-end" independent election verification systems that permit each voter to verify that his or her ballot was correctly recorded and counted. On the Scantegrity ballot, each candidate position is paired with a random letter. Election officials confirm receipt of the ballot by...
 
Tags: scantegrity, scantegrity ballot, ballot, random letter, paper audit records, letter, security enhancement, position, legislative proposals
 
 
 
 
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Pa. county switches from touch-screen to optical scan e-voting machines

2008-03-06 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Election officials in a Pennsylvania county reversed course and selected an optical scan voting machine vendor after its first choice, a touch-screen vendor, said it could not agree to meet future certification standards for the equipment
 
Tags: optical scan, future certification standards, machine vendor, vendor, pennsylvania county, election officials, agree, choice, equipment
 
 
 
 
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An Optical Scan E-Voting System based on N-Version Programming

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...optical character recognition technology. Trade-offs in voter training, ease of use, security, and coercion across various systems are considered for the purpose of recognizing achievable improvements. Based on the use of N-version programming techniques, we propose improvements to Demotek, including those in security and new capabilities....
 
Tags: system based, based, system, n-version, authentication system, vote data transmission, electoral process, capabilities, electronic
 
 
 
 
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Optical encryption called capable of 100G bps

2008-10-21 00:00:00 by Stephen Lawson in Network World on Security
 
Researchers have created an optical network component that they say can encrypt data traveling at 100G bps (bits per second), far outpacing current electronic encryption technologies
 
Tags: 100g bps, optical network component, encrypt data, researchers, bits
 
 
 
 
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Cisco 7600 OSR Backbone Router

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2008-09-06 11:25:02 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...Optical Internet. A Revolutionary Platform For Evolving Networks The Cisco 7600 OSR helps service providers break through service and bandwidth barriers today, while designing networks to scale for future growth. The Cisco 7600 OSR achieves this through adaptive network processing, or the ability to evolve the platform for new IP services...
 
Tags: cisco, cisco flexwan module, osr, runs cisco ios, base cisco, cisco ios, services, destination sensitive services, osr system
 
 
 
 
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Spammers defeat 'captcha' technology

2007-07-11 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Optical character recognition defeats security measure that requires new users to identify twisted letters
 
Tags: letters, requires, users
 
 
 
 
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Missing memory stick turns up five months later

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2008-01-23 16:44:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Optical Group Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected more than 340 Types of Data names, addresses, dates of birth, home and mobile phone numbers and conditions Breach Description A memory stick was found last August (2007) in a Stockport (UK) car park which contained sensitive personal information belonging to...