Security Lifestyle(S)

If Security is a state of mind, then so is brand loyalty.

Head Mounted Surveillance System

It's so cheap and affordable even you can add it to your wish list :

"The new DV ProFusion is a cost effective alternative to the DV Pro. It is a lightweight, mobile, body worn video and audio solution. DV ProFusion has a built in screen allowing for live viewing and instant playback. DV ProFusion is available in either 30GB hard drive capacity, which provides up to 100 hours of video or 100GB offering 450 hours of video, depending on sampling bit rate. DV ProFusion enables the user to keep both hands free whilst recording exactly what they see and hear themselves. DV ProFusion is specifically designed to work with a number of optional accessories, including an extendable pole and additional lens options."

While it's very innovative idea, in five years the current models would look like the brick-size like Motorola cell phones you all know. I like the idea of storing the footage in the device compared to relying via air which makes me think of several scenarios for possible abuse or DoS attacks. In case you haven't heard public CCTV cameras are getting a boost with built-in speakers, so perhaps at a later stage it would come to someone's mind to include a speaker on the other side of the head too. Two clips to see it in action.

Transferring Sensitive Military Technology

Busted :

"China on Tuesday condemned US sanctions imposed last week on three Chinese companies for allegedly selling banned weapons to Iran and Syria, calling the accusations "totally groundless". "We strongly oppose this and demand the US side correct this erroneous action," foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a regular press conference. The Chinese firms are among 24 foreign entities from several countries hit with the sanctions, invoked under the 2005 Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act."

Follow the connection, the U.S is doing business with the Chinese companies, who leak it to Iran and Syria, who leak it Hezbollah or pretty much everyone at the bottom of the food chain.

More comments - "Foreign Intelligence Services and U.S Technology Espionage" and "Hezbollah's use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - UAVs".

Artillery Rockets image courtesy of Globalsecurity.org

It's all About the Vision and the Courage to Execute it

Great article on China's blogging market and the never-ending censorship saga. Meet Fang Xingdong, a banned journalist who decides to beat them by playing their own game, do the math yourself. While heading China's Bokee with 14 million bloggers and more than 10,000 new ones every day, he's appointed only 10 people to monitor the blogs :

"Of course, the authorities did not allow a completely wide-open system. Censorship is still practised, even at Mr. Fang's company. Among his 80 employees are 10 people who comb through the blogs every day, deleting anything deemed to be obscene or politically unacceptable. He hopes that the Chinese blogosphere will become self-regulating. "If it's more orderly, there will be less pressure on us," he says. "I think a blog should have a basic foundation of morality and law. I compare it to a person's home."

If I were in China, I'd register on his network.