BBC NEWS | Technology | CCTV comes to mobile phones
A new security service hooks up private CCTV cameras to the net and sends a text message to a mobile if something moves.
Home owners can watch the live pictures from their mobile and alert the police if someone is attempting a break-in.
The images can be seen on standard GSM mobiles, instead of sophisticated third generation (3G) video phones.
I had been waiting to see something like this appear although I thought Orange were going to get there first with an affordable self installation kit. This is a more professionalised service rather than a DIY affair. Mind you having said that my browser doesn’t seem to like their web pages for some reason. Perhaps the BBC artice is hammering their server?
CCTVsafe does look like an interesting solution to those of a secuirty concious nature.
Marc’s Voice
The idea of the OpenIdentity standard is to maintain our own, protected database of people ‘pointers’ – which will in turn point to specific locations throughout the web – which may house an end-user’s resume, medical records or blog/web site. All access to these pointers and information will be strictly controlled, allowing each individual to decide who gets access to what.
So this is not about setting up some centralized database. This is about creating a ‘proxy’ server for people – a redirect server, which will keep track of the smallest amount of information possible about you – and simply point to where all the real data is…. The end-user/human can then completely control who sees what. New kinds of tools, services and applications can be built around this sort of standard.
Having conversed with Marc about tools I know how passionate he is about things and Identity is no exception. I love the ideas being presented here and wish I could help out more, however I’m in one of those big Comps (well not that big), don’t have any money and am not technically savvy enough to code to this level.
However sign me up for an account :0
The Register
What they found was that users checking their e-mail through unencrypted POP connections vastly outnumbered those using a VPN or another encrypted tunnel. Only three percent of e-mail downloads were encrypted on the first day of the conference, 12 percent on the second day. (The company says it counted all VPN or tunneled traffic as e-mail).
That means the other 88% could easily be intercepted by eavesdroppers using commonly-available tools, compromising both the e-mail and the user’s passwords.
Additionally, 84 out of the 523 users monitored were configured to allow ad hoc networking, and 74 were configured to automatically connect to the access point with the strongest signal strength — a default mode that could leave a laptop prey to a rogue access point.
This is very worrying. People need to understand the risks they run when they don’t encryptusing wireless networks, esepcially if it takes off. We have had some instances of malicous use of wireless networks for bandwidth theft (i.e. leaching off of someone else’s broadband connection) and I expect it is relatively easy to access their PCs etc as most access points are configured for networking rather than simply connection sharing.
I hope the new wireless encruption protocols are secure and perhaps more importnaly easy to use for unexperienced consumers than the current batch.
It is certainly a concern for any services I am involved in developing.
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