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Utah's FrontRunner Commuter Rail Unwired

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2008-06-13 13:34:53 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...rail line, FrontRunner, goes official with its free Wi-Fi: Nomad Digital, one of the longest-established firms providing connectivity to trains, has unwired the 12 double-decker trains on this new line, which opened for service in late April. About 1,000 passengers ride the route from Ogden to Salt Lake City each day (as of mid-May), and the...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi service requires, rail, rail authority, authority, in-transit wi-fi, free wi-fi, authority offers wi-fi, service
 
 
 
 
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BART-Fi Moves Closer: Negotiation Under Way

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2008-05-23 15:18:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Rail gets a nod from the Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART) authority's board: The board of the giant SF bay people mover has given a kind of tacit go-ahead for negotiations with WiFi Rail , a company that has been testing a unique form of delivering Wi-Fi using coaxial cable as antenna extensions . Cooper Lee, founder and CEO, told me that...
 
Tags: bart, wifi rail, bart service, wi-fi, municipal wi-fi, californian bart riders, continuous wi-fi service, commuters, regular business commuters
 
 
 
 
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BART Wi-Fi Access Moves Closer in Bay Area

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2008-04-09 06:39:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Rail may sign contract with Bay Area Rapid Transit soon: That's typical marketing fare from many companies, to pre-announce deals, but a BART official confirmed the state of negotiations in this Sacramento Bee article. I had a long talk with the WiFi Rail folks a few months ago, and they sent me some fascinating video of a live four-way video...
 
Tags: wifi rail, wifi rail relies, bee, sacramento bee article, contract, sign contract, wifi rail folks, overlaid wi-fi signals, months ago
 
 
 
 
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Why Some Terrorist Attacks Succeed and Others Fail

2008-02-28 06:25:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...rail, and come to some interesting conclusions From the "Executive Summary": The analytic results indicated that the most influential factors determining the success or failure of a terrorist attack are those that occur in the pre-execution phases. While safeguards and controls at airports and rail stations are critical, they are most...
 
Tags: vigilant security services, vigilant, recent terrorist plots, terrorist plots, information fits, information, intelligence information, security services, law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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The Continued Cheapening of the Word "Terrorism"

2008-07-08 06:10:14 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Rail Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) said today it was planning a 24-hour strike by rail workers on July 17, the busiest day of the Catholic event. It is the day Pope Benedict XVI will make his way through the streets of Sydney during the afternoon peak. The NSW Government will take the matter to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission...
 
Tags: word, terrorism, government, catchall word, nsw government, morris iemma, iemma, industrial terror tactics, rail tram
 
 
 
 
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You Need An Address to Call 911

2007-08-23 09:23:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...railroad tracks. None of this information seemed good enough. As I talked to her on the phone I was walking back to the hotel, and I finally gave her its address, and that seemed fit into their system It made me think of a situation that happened to a friend of mine in 2000. An elderly woman made an improper left hand turn and he hit her...
 
Tags: tracks, train tracks, railroad tracks, rail road tracks, hotel, address, road, expensive car, imperfect information
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...rail fan being branded a terrorist for trying to film a train. (Note that the member of the train's crew was trying to incite the other passengers to do something about the filmer.) And about this Icelandic woman's experience with U.S. customs because she overstayed a visa in 1995 And lastly, this funny piece of (I trust) fiction Remember...
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Rail and Pipe), and Chemical sectors along with multiple Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are scheduled to participate Here's what's weird: no one's discussing the exercise. Actually, I'm guessing that's not strictly true. Who's not discussing it is Burton Group clients; and they represent hundreds of the largest organizations...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Rail and Pipe), and Chemical sectors along with multiple Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are scheduled to participate Here's what's weird: no one's discussing the exercise. Actually, I'm guessing that's not strictly true. Who's not discussing it is Burton Group clients; and they represent hundreds of the largest organizations...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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Online privacy: railing against the accepted

2008-04-22 00:00:00 by Scott Bradner in Network World on Security
 
I frequently use this column to rail against threats to the privacy of Internet users, both from government and the private sector. (For example, see last weeks column). I just found a survey published late last year by the Pew Internet & American Life Project that reports that people are coming to support, or at last not object too strongly to,...
 
Tags: weeks column, american life project, column, privacy, internet users, pew internet, support, types, object