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Great Fear-Mongering Product: Subway Emergency Kit

2008-06-09 12:11:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Subway Emergency Kit can aid you in seeing and breathing while exiting. This all-in-one compact, portable and easy to use subway emergency kit contains some items never seen before in a kit This could have won my Third Movie-Plot Threat Contest
 
Tags: subway emergency kit, kit, emergency, train fire, fire, paper towel, movie-plot threat, all-in-one compact, protection
 
 
 
 
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Federal Judge Orders Halt to Defcon Subway Hacking Speech

2008-08-10 15:40:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A federal judge on Saturday granted the state of Massachusetts' request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system. The undergraduate students are scheduled to give a presentation Sunday afternoon at the Defcon conference
 
Tags: presentation, presentation sunday afternoon, federal judge, mit students, boston subway system, students, defcon conference, injunction, smartcards
 
 
 
 
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Overestimating Threats Against Children

2008-04-10 13:00:16 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...subway alone: No, I did not give him a cell phone. Didn't want to lose it. And no, I didn't trail him, like a mommy private eye. I trusted him to figure out that he should take the Lexington Avenue subway down, and the 34th Street crosstown bus home. If he couldn't do that, I trusted him to ask a stranger. And then I even trusted that...
 
Tags: subway, lexington avenue subway, york city subway, city, skenazy, skenazy chose, safe, york, 9-year-old
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...subway trains or waiting on platforms The callers said that the men appeared to be Muslims and that they seemed to be counting the number of people boarding subway trains or the number of trains passing through a station. They feared the men might be collecting data to maximize the casualties in a terror attack But when the police looked into...
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people
 
 
 
 
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Cameras in the New York City Subways

2008-01-25 13:41:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...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 $185 million or 70...
 
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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Heavily Armed Officers on New York City Subways

2008-02-07 06:06:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...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, Columbus Circle, Rockefeller Center and Times Square in Manhattan, and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn What does it...
 
Tags: patrol platforms, subway system daily, patrol, tactical plan, officers, rockefeller center, city, times square, herald square
 
 
 
 
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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
...subway and train Wi-Fi in urban areas around the world. Yes, that's a big claim; but they have a unique and interesting solution The company told the Bee that they would start on heavily traveled underground routes first, with service available within 4 months of a contract. WiFi Rail relies on leaky coax, which is wiring that runs in the...
 
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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Women 4 times more likely than men to cough up personal info

2008-04-17 10:08:53 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
That's according to a survey conducted outside a London subway stop by Infosecurity Europe. And what were the fake researchers offering as an incentive to spill that personally identifiable information? A candy bar
 
Tags: london subway stop, candy bar, fake researchers, infosecurity europe, identifiable information, survey, incentive
 
 
 
 
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Wayport Tops 10,000 McDonald's Locations

2008-04-29 09:25:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Subway to name three of the largest--Wayport is locked out of working with direct competitors. This opens the potential for another firm to handle a several-thousand-location network. Wayport has worked with both McDonald's corporate-owned stores (about 2/3rds of stores in the U.S.), as well as reaching out to franchisees, who Lowden noted...
 
Tags: wayport, wi-fi, comprehensive wi-fi plan, local wi-fi network, att service, service, wayport offers, network, wayport caches
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn't photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn't photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren't being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn't known for its photography. Even those...
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists