Civil liberty advocates are opposed to a CCTV website that pays the public to monitor live video cameras.
Internet Eyes says it offers up to £1,000 to online subscribers who can spot crimes as they happen and click an alert button to notify the business owner.
I can see why people are upset about the privacy implications but I also wonder about crime. Could someone planning a crime hire out the camera for the time when they will attack?
Lufthansa is said to be the only airline to do extensive testing with a decommissioned Airbus A310 to figure out why so many people in flight order tomato juice. The German scientists think cusine research must be able to find the answer.
“The flavor profile of tomato juice changes with pressure,” [Florian Mayer, the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics team leader] said. “So when they taste tomato juice on the ground and give it bad marks and if they do the same test under reduced pressure conditions they give the tomato better marks because tomato juice tastes better under low pressure conditions.”
Blame the altitude for poor flavor, in other words.
The grant, for “trustworthy interaction in the cloud”, was awarded to BU, Brown and UC Irvine
The project supported by the NSF grant will address these [privacy] concerns by examining the feasibility of extending cloud service-level agreements to cover aspects such as integrity of outsourced services, information leakage control, and fair market pricing. The project also will explore mechanisms that verify trust-enhancing service-level agreements are being followed and develop “trustworthiness” guarantees and tradeoffs to cloud customers and system integrators that are both practical and useable.
It looks like an interesting project but I have to scratch my head and wonder about hyperbole in security when the “lead principal investigator” claims “significant benefit to our economy and society”. How will that be measured?
The European ATM Security Team report says attacks on ATM on are the rise but losses continue to fall, due to anti-skimming measures such as the EMV integrated circuit card (chip card). Although the past six months have seen the largest number of attacks ever reported (since 2004 when recording began) losses per attack have gone down:
The EAST report shows that ATM related card skimming losses have fallen consecutively for the last five reporting periods, from a high of 315 million in the second half of 2007, to the 144 million just reported. The fall is believed to be a direct result of the effectiveness of the EMV rollout, as compromised European cards are increasingly being used outside of the 31 countries of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).
The report shows that other parts of the world, which lack EMV, have not seen the same decline in losses.
EAST estimates that are 369,656 ATMs in Europe that now are EMV compliant, about 95 percent of 388,482 ATMs reported by the 31 SEPA member countries.