* Police 'futurists' walk fine line between goals and liberties * Distance detection may help secure Wi-Fi * New 3Com switches provide PoE to smallest offices * Three indicted in U.S. spam crackdown * Internet trade group calls for self-regulation * Today on Layer 8
Think about it – today’s police have a wealth of electronic information sources at their fingertips, and tomorrow’s police are likely to have even more. What does this mean? Two words: information overload. Three more words: compromised civil liberties. Well, maybe – see this week’s Wider Net for the full story. Police ‘futurists’ walk fine line between goals and liberties http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082205widernet.html?net&story=082205widernet
Think about it – today’s police have a wealth of electronic information sources at their fingertips, and tomorrow’s police are likely to have even more. What does this mean? Two words: information overload. Three more words: compromised civil liberties. Well, maybe – see this week’s Wider Net for the full story.
Police ‘futurists’ walk fine line between goals and liberties
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082205widernet.html?net&story=082205widernet
Distance detection may help secure Wi-Fi
Intel closed its Developer Forum yesterday with a glimpse into the future. Most interesting is a technology under development that can give access points the ability to determine the location of wireless LAN clients. If a client is outside your walls, you could cut it off.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082505-intel-wi-fi.html?net&story=082505-intel-wi-fi
New 3Com switches provide PoE to smallest offices
3Com is filling out the lower end of its workgroup switching gear with the introduction of two switches designed for small offices in large corporations that need to manage the gear remotely.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082505-3com-poe.html?net&story=082505-3com-poe
Three indicted in U.S. spam crackdown
Three people accused of sending massive amounts of spam face possible prison sentences after being indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. state of Arizona and accused of violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and other charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082605-spam-prison.html?net&story=082605-spam-prison
Internet trade group calls for self-regulation
An Internet-focused trade group has called for the industry to establish its own customer-rights code before Congress steps in.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082505-usiia.html?net&story=082505-usiia
Today on the TGIF edition of Layer 8:
Gmail opens to the public – there goes the neighborhood; a sleep-timer for iTunes; is cheap beer the reason for binge drinking?; and a laser-sighted slingshot for that up-and-coming SWAT team member. Join in the fun at:
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8
