Nimrod MR2: spy-plane and 'rebroadcasting' centre
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The Nimrod MR2 -- one of which crashed in Afghanistan Saturday, killing all 14 people on board -- has a history dating back to 1969 when it was introduced as a long-range maritime patrol plane.
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I don't have an office, and I'm not running a conference, so I hope to hook up with someone, hopefully in the Bay Area, with either of these, to try some experimentation with FlickrFan. First a little background... My first glimpse of how wonderful news photography and screen savers are together was when I visited Andy Rhinehart at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on 2/15/05. He had to go to a meeting, and left me in his office to check email, update my blog using my laptop. HIs PC of course went into screen saver mode, and started showing pictures of various political leaders in meetings around the world and sporting events, people digging out of snow storms. It didn't take long before my eyes were fixed on his screen.  Later I found out that everyone at AP does this too.  If you have a folder of new pictures on your LAN it makes a fantastic source of distraction. But it's different from video because it's silent. You can have a conversation about what's on the screen without interfering with it, or try to have a conversation about something else entirely.  This is something we noticed about podcasting too, that sometimes less is more. Because there is no video you can: 1. Use your eyes for something else, like driving, walking, doing housework. 2. Use your imagination in ways you can't with video, imagine what the speakers look like, where they are, who else is there. Once your imagination is activated in one direction it goes off in others.  So photocasting or picturecatching, whatever it ends up being called, has a similar "less is more" dimension.  So then I tried an experiment, I put an early version of FlickrFan on a 46-inch screen in my den, and when people would come over to visit I'd leave it running and we'd talk about whatever we were going to talk about, and I wasn't surprised to see the attention drift over to the TV. It's captivating. So I'd like to try it in two new venues to see what happens. 1. In a reception area in an office. Imagine one of the buildings at Microsoft. Or a doctors office, or the lobby of a VC firm. Install a big flatscreen TV on the wall, with a Mac Mini behind it, with a net connection, and let it run. See if people don't gravitate to it. See if people don't want to have meetings in the lobby. (I think some might.) 2. At a conference, like Demo or Davos, scatter four screens around the main lobby (not the meeting room), with one Mac driving them all or each with its own Mac Mini. Again see how it affects the dynamic. You might want to show pictures taken at the conference for a unique recursive effect. Or just use the AP news photo feed. Either would be sufficient to learn how it works. I bet we would learn a lot. Let me know if you decide to give it a try, and by all means please blog about your experiences, share what you learn with the rest of us.
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Already in use are such things as infrared cameras with built-in brains that capture license plate images and match them in milliseconds to police records of vehicles of interest to the authorities
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A new worm can spy on users by hijacking their Web cameras, a security firm warned Monday. The Rbot.gr worm -- the latest in a long line of similar worms; one security firm estimates that more
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For the second time in eight days, new critical vulnerabilities that could be used to hijack machines have been fingered in the RealPlayer media player.
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Seeing the world' the digital way on Second Life.
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A Canadian inventor has created Internet-based technology that could soon see regular computer users acting as armchair spies. Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto&#39;s York University
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This article discusses the discovery of compromised machines in large enterprise environments, and offers some suggestions on correlating NIDS and HIPS logs to avoid false positives.
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Hamlib purpose is to develop flexible and portable shared libraries that offer a standardised API to control any radio oriented equipment through a computer interface.   Hamlib provides a unified environment for the development of radio and rotator control applications. The release 1.2.7 includes many improvements since last official version.  Check it out at http://hamlib.org !  New in 1.2.7: * Much Improved Documentation * New models: IC-820H, DttSP, Elektor SDR-USB, DDS-60,               FT-450, FT-767GX * Fixes: IC-746, IC-765, IC-910, Kenwood's, FT1000MP, FT817, .. * New rigsmtr toy to graph polar signal strength * New experimental rigctld rig daemon, with simple protocol  Download pages are accessible at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib rpms, .deb and Win32 DLL's coming soon.  Please, test it out and report to hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Developers are also invited to join the Hamlib team by subscribing to this mailing list. If your favorite rig is not in the supported list, feel free to ask.  Many thanks to all the developers and testers who participated in this release, especially regarding the documentation. Contributors and backend maintainers are listed in the AUTHORS file.  Have fun and let us know!  73's de Stephane - F8CFE & the Hamlib team
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VatSim flight simulation network gives aviation enthusiasts a realistic look at air traffic control.
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Spymasters to post recruitment adverts in online computer games.
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Virus writers have grafted a network sniffer into the latest variant of the SDBot worm series. So far there are no reports of SDBot-UH in the wild but the inclusion of selective network sniffing along with
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This article discusses the use of Libwhisker, a PERL module which allows for the creation of custom HTTP packets and can be used for penetration  testing various web applications.
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A less-than-futuristic surveillance system in San Francisco.
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Well, this is some news I've been wanting to share for a while, but I've had to wait until everything was ready.  During the summer, I spoke at RubyConf*MI, one of the first regional Ruby Conferences (I think San Diego held the only one earlier than the Michigan folks).  At the time, they filmed all the presentations.
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New software that replicates the way a fly sees could help the next generation of cameras pick out details obscured by movement or washed out by variations in light levels.
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New software synchronizes Research In Motion devices with Mac OS X.