At last, a technology that can answer Mae West's question: "Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20080309141113326

New Camera Can Tell Exactly What's In Your Pockets From 80 Feet Away

Sunday, March 09 2008 @ 02:11 PM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Surveillance

A British company called ThruVision has developed a camera that can detect items such as guns, drugs and explosives under people's clothes without, for better or worse, being able to see their genitals. It holds a lot of promise for places like airport security checkpoint but stands to open up a huge can of privacy-hating worms elsewhere.

The camera is called the T5000, and it sees objects based on the Terahertz, or T-rays, that they emit.

Source - Gizmodo

Perhaps a useful article?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/10/11NF-how-IT-security-leaders-succeed_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/10/11NF-how-IT-security-leaders-succeed_1.html

How great IT security leaders succeed

Forrester identifies some surprising attributes that make for the best-performing CISOs

By Matt Hines March 10, 2008

As the threat of attack, both external and internal, continues to take root and as data-handling regulations continue to proliferate, the role of a chief information security officer appears to be growing more complex by the day. Many CISOs are doing an admirable job of stemming the tide of data loss and keeping their heads above water around compliance. But some IT security leaders are doing it better than the rest, according to a recent Forrester Research report, which has identified several characteristics that make these top CISOs more successful than their peers.

Beyond predictable recommendations such as having a close relationship with their employer's business leaders and making security a pervasive issue across their entire organizations, several unexpected practices arose during Forrester's discussions with users, vendors, and regulators.

E-Discovery: It's expensive even for the big boys who should have it well under control.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/09/1939226&from=rss

Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 09, @04:23PM from the cying-a-river dept.

An anonymous reader notes the considerable irony in Microsoft asking for relief from further discovery in the Windows Vista Capable debacle. This is the lawsuit that was recently granted class-action status, and Microsoft wants the wheels of justice to stop while it appeals that designation. It's easy to see why Microsoft wants to prevent further digging around in their and their OEMs' email archives, with stories like this one from the NYTimes (registration may be required) revealing Redmond's highly embarrassing internal emails to a mass audience.

I think Jonathon is wrong. Without the ideas generated by “unofficial” and often unconnected web users, much of the progress of the Internet would still be waiting on a committee. If a given area is too “wild and woolly” you will find individuals to “tame” it. Government is only reacting to areas it believes is ungovernable – and here we must say “Yes, and we like it like that!”

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/09/1545248&from=rss

Jonathan Zittrain On the Future of the Internet

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 09, @12:07PM from the take-back-the-tubes dept. The Internet

uctpjac writes "Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford and renowned cyberlaw scholar, gave a lecture explaining that the Internet has to be taken out of the hands of the anarchists, the libertarians, and the State, and handed back to self-policing communities of experts. If we don't do this, he believes the Internet will suffer 'self-closure' — the open system will seal itself off when the inability to put its own house in order leads to a take-over by government and business. The article summarizes Zittrain's points and notes, "Forces of organized interests that do not play by the rules, like malware peddlers, identity thieves and spammers are allowing another army of interests — corporate protectionists, often — to demand centralized, authoritarian solutions. This is the future of the Net unless we stop it.'"

This is easily explained by pointing to the strategic vision of the developer... “Lets make our own standards so we can lock people into our products!”

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/09/2136242&from=rss

IE 5.5 Beats IE6 and IE7 On Acid 3

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 09, @09:24PM from the acid-reflux dept.

Steven Noonan sends us to a page where he is collecting and updating results for various browsers on the newly released Acid 3 test. No browser yet scores 100 on this test. (We discussed Acid 3 when it came out.) He writes, "It's not surprising that Internet Explorer is losing to every other modern browser, but how did IE 5.5 beat IE 6.0 and 7.0?" All of the IE versions score below 20 on Acid 3.

because a list is (almost) always worth a look (Even if I'm not on it...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs

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