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June 12th, 2006

Europe must be crazy

http://www.csoonline.com/caveat/060606.html?source=csoupdateMaybe they know something we don’t?

Maybe they do have good security, but they are doing what we say security should be, and that is being unobtrusive as far as the user is concerned.

Maybe there are hidden fiber optic cameras everywhere and those ‘tourists’ and ‘tour guides’ will casually ask someone aside and …. “poof!” There goes another terrorist.

Now that strikes me as an interesting idea.
If the terrorist organizations find their people are mysteriously disappearing with no publicity, no evidence, no trail, it might make them a bit worried.

But it does raise some question about the kind of society that would act that way.
But then who am I to talk. I grew up in one of the ultimate police states - the UK of the 60s/70s, where the police had no need to carry guns.

June 12th, 2006

Encrypted USB flash drives

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=14&tag=nl.e539
Yea, right.
Fine for the monoculture, but what about us types for whom MS-Windows is not the ne-plus-ultra, not the first choice?

Oh, I can use Linux-specific tools to protect the USB drive, but that doens’t play well when I use them to move between Linux and Windwos and certainly doen’t ‘automount’.

Suggestions?

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