Commentary by Allan B. Colombo September 11, 2012 – A new facial recognition effort by the FBI promises to track known criminals using iris scans, voice prints, and live video images from a variety of sources. This report provides additional information on this most interesting development that has some privacy advocates up in arms....
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Commentary by Allan B. Colombo “August 16, 2012 – In a move that is sure to have the United States Justice Department in an uproar, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been granted asylum by the nation state of Ecuador. For those who may have forgotten, WikiLeaks released controversial government documents to the world...
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Commentary by Allan B. Colombo August 11, 2012 –In 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012, there were more than 35,000 deaths caused by automobile accidents. Nationally there were 10.8 million accidents the same year. “Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among those age...
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Commentary by Allan B. Colombo August 7, 2012 – Those who know me well know that I do not advocate placing critical data onto the Internet simply because it will be compromised over and over again. This is one of the reasons why government and corporations alike use to use leased lines for connectivity....
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July 24, 2012 – I always knew there was a reason why I didn’t want a tattoo on my body. For years I was tempted but I continued to just say no. Now I know exactly why that is… because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to create a database of people with...
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July 18, 2012 – The United Kingdom (UK) has had it’s share of illegal banking activities. Last week, “another UK banking executive was made to squirm in front of the TV cameras as he was grilled by angry parliamentarians over alleged corruption in his organisation,” says Paul Marks, writer with New Scientist. As it...
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July 17, 2012 – As I read this story, I was struck by the fact that 90 to 95 percent of all networks in country are private. That leads me to question why the general public is demanding that the US Government do something about cyber security when the brunt of network ownership lies...
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Recently Nadim Kobeissi of Montreal, the developer of a new encrypted communication service called Crypto (Crypto.com), was detained by U.S. Customs agents at the U.S. border and interrogated about the algorithms employed in his online creation.
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Company releases full version of FCC’s report on company’s controversial gathering of personal data with Street View cars. 29 April 2012 – The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) launched an investigation (Click to read more) of Google’s Street View program, which included the capture of information from unsecured WiFi connections all across the United States....
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Sunday, 18 March 2012 – One small fact that most of us fail to realize is that every time we take a picture with our cell phone, the GPS coordinate is nested within the data. For military this represents a definite security threat, as the following article attests. But for the average person, it...
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March 17, 2012 – Google Charged With One Again Pilfering User’s Private Information From video surveillance cameras along streets to the precise location of any phone number you enter (in the past), Google is once again accused to pilfering user’s private information. Consumer Watchdog organization, a non-partisan public interest organization with offices in Santa...
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4 March 2012 – There are self proclaimed activists who refuse to jump onto the Facebook bandwagon. The reason for this is a general lack of privacy. If you think about it, but that’s why these individuals are activists. So what’s the problem here? What else would you expect? In a move that’s unlikely...
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The list of data breaches off the Internet is enormous to say the least. On our Facebook Group we regularly feature links with excerpts that further demonstrate the difficulty related to securing critical data-related infrastructure. Congress is working on the problem...
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12/31/11 – The use of biometric identifiers for security sake, be it physical or logical security, has some privacy advocates up in arms. But there is a program afoot, sponsored by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), that makes this concern appear as child’s play by comparison. Good access control hinges on one or...
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10/30/11 – The question concerning security in a fully digital world is one that society continues to wrestle with as hackers continue to penetrate critical infrastructure, such as the recent admission on the part of NASA’s Terra AM-1 satellite. According to USA Today, “NASA experienced two suspicious events with the Terra spacecraft in the...
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August 13, 2011 Recently the Transit officials of San Francisco train stations took it upon themselves to prevent the free and protected rights of citizens to protest against an issue they hold dear to their hearts. Secondly, and probably more importantly, they interfered with the ability of transit riders to freely make cell calls...
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National Security has many sides and faces that make it difficult for the average person to gain a true perspective of what it takes to keep a nation safe and secure from outside attacks. The need for a uniform emergency alerting system that works across all communication technologies is not new, but how Uncle...
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May 19, 2011 This morning you will find several interesting items on GKO Technology Group on Facebook. Recent posts include information on a host of security issues most related to mobile devices, such as the Android. There’s a few items on deck this morning that you might find interesting along this line. Some of...
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“A CNET article included a link to the Twitter feed of Cairo human rights activist Dalia Ziada, who wrote, ‘The Internet is back in Egypt! Finally!’” (read it) It’s amazing how much freedom and the pursuit of the same depends on dependable, reliable mass communications. We no longer need newspapers to launch a successful...
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Omar Choudary, Cambridge University, smart card, smartcard, Smart Card Detective, The UK Cards Association, cashless, cashlessness, cash, soft currency, hard currency, global currency, danger of no currency
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The “invisibility cloak” will soon become a common intelligence gathering tool for the military, law enforcement, and those who have the money and contacts to purchase one. Let’s see you add this one to your wardrobe.
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Giant Killers Organization, May 03, 2000 – The 21st Century will bring with it seemingly wonderful innovations that promise to enhance mankind’s natural abilities, such as new mental processing powers, along with a fresh global purpose. Today, computers allow men and women to do more with less and in a reduced amount of time...
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