Posts Tagged ‘security’

Camera security.

Filed under: Comm

The security, surveillance stuff from yesterday is still on my mind. I was thinking that will all the stuff available you could really have your own personal surveillance society set up at home. You could pick up a CCTV system for home and record everything you do, although I don’t really see the point on that one. I can see it for security purposes, sure, but if you did I know I would want a closed system. Mainly cause if you are connected to anything then you have to deal with people hacking into your cameras and watching you, also the premise of a few movies. I wonder how they deal with that in Britain, is it something they have problems with. Can you imagine, with all the cameras they supposedly have around? I wonder if they are all connected and feeding to a central database or repository. They might even have issues with people watching their cameras and not know it. Then again you have cameras that people are supposed to watch, most of the traffic cameras in the states are accessible to the public so they can take a look at conditions themselves. Then there is also the Google camera stuff, although it is not current. There are a lot of other cameras available though, tourist cameras and summit cameras and cameras like that.

Following that line of thought, how secure are the security companies that provide monitoring and recording services? I assume they probably have to be fairly secure because they could be liable for any problems with their services. It is an interesting thought, I wonder how many actually take that into consideration when picking a security system for their homes. I think that would really be more of a problem than the cameras all over Britain or the ones in the United States. Most of those are in public places so you really wouldn’t be seeing much you couldn’t see by sitting in a roadside café and watching the people go by.

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Permalink Comments (0) blog Jul 12, 2009

Privacy lost in UK.

Filed under: Hmmm

It is interesting, just when you think things are getting really bad in the states, you know privacy loss and nosy people being highly intrusive, you run across something like this talking about the situation in Britain and you start to feel better. I know they had issues with their government trying to enact a database of everything their people do online, which I thought was nice. However, if I was a hacker I would have been drooling. If I lived there I would have been considering a move, maybe relocate to some place less ‘big brother’. You know, like some small dictatorship somewhere. Really, what they are talking about there is just scary. People are people and prone to corruption, how would you be able to trust your government with that much information on you? They would know everything about you, especially in this age where online is where many live their lives now.

I know some places record the phone calls of their workers, which makes sense as it is a liability issue in this case. There are some pretty good ways to take care of call recording so that as a company you can keep track of your employee’s activities at work. The only reason I tend to be ok with the intrusive actions like that at work is because if you are the employer you are normally going to be held responsible for their actions. That means if they do something stupid you get to pay for it. That is not a fun prospect, not at all. Actually, with call logging you can keep a record of the calls and what is said on your pc. That can be very convenient, although you would have to keep and ensure the stuff was secure because that could be a different but unpleasant liability.

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Permalink Comments (0) blog May 24, 2009