2007 January 31

In September, 2006, Nicole Brodeur did an excellent article for the Seattle Times. The story was about Sherri Peak and how her estranged husband stalked her. Ms. Peak’s privacy was violated with a hidden cell phone and a GPS tracking system. It is a frightening use of technology.
The part of the Brodeur article that jumped [...]

Alex Eckelberry, the president of Sunbelt Software, has written an excellent article about the Julie Amero case. Alex writes:
“The machine was a haggard old system that was not adequately protected against these types of threats (Windows 98 running Internet Explorer 5 with only middling antivirus protection, no firewall, no antispyware program, no popup blocking and [...]

Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens. This technology may yield lightweight, ultrathin, high resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications.
“Our imager is about seven times more powerful than a conventional lens of the same [...]