urbanscale + security   12

Computer World: Default passwords on road signs in Austin
Lax security behaviors and the Great Austin Zombie Exploit of 2009. Goes directly to the challenges of read/write APIs for public objects.
security  API  publicobjects 
february 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: "Hoop" Wins Bike-Rack Design Contest
Pretty enough, I suppose, but lower-capacity than the extant racks. And a single point of failure to their two. PROVISIONAL FAIL, sorry.
(nyc)  sidewalking  urbanism  cycling  security 
november 2008 by Urbanscale
INTRODUCTION: AUTONOMOUS SECURITY ROBOTS
"A Brief History of Robotics in Physical Security."
robot  security  interestingtimes 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Canon’s Iris Registration Mode: Biological Copyright Metadata
Whoah. [/keanu] Canon wants to embed biometrically-acquired copyright metadata in images.
security  biometrics  ubicomp  everyware  IP  wtf 
february 2008 by Urbanscale
A school created by Disney
Via mikek: Celebration students, differential permissioning & digitally-mediated access control.
security  disney  everyware  urbancomputing  bookproject 
january 2008 by Urbanscale
Tiger Trap
One of the only online refs I can find for Tiger Trap, an interdiction feature invisibly filled with "collapsible concrete...strong enough for pedestrians to walk on but [which] crumbles under the weight of a truck."
urbanism  architecture  security 
december 2006 by Urbanscale

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