“Outgoing Secretary of State Kevin Shelley told San Francisco police that his Glen Park home was burglarized over the weekend by someone who bypassed valuable property in favor of his state-issued handheld computer….Shelley’s personal digital assistant device was said by employees to be one of his most prized possessions.He reportedly bragged to them so often about using it to raise $3 million in donations for his 2002 campaign for secretary of state that they came to dub it “the Palm Pilot speech.”
Handheld security is no longer a joke, and if you’re not careful you could be the next victim of information theft via your handheld — not only via online mechanisms a la Sidekicks, but actual physical theft as well.
Unfortunately, with PDA/Smartphones, it becomes clumsy to lock the device all the time. As a compromise, I use eWallet for any seriously private information and make sure to be obsessive about “patting down my pockets” and keeping my PDAs close to me. How do you protect yourself?
Industrial spying may not get much publicity. But it’s out there. U.S. authorities arrested a 35-year-old California man on Sunday and charged him with illegally sending proprietary data from his employer, a Fremont, California, company that makes semiconductors, to a competitor in Taiwan. Irwin Jacobs stolen laptop had Qualcomm’s trade secrets and confidencial correspondence.
Draw a 3 mile radius around a high tech park. Are some “businesses” really fronts for international espionage? It happens. And, of course, there’s lots of spying between companies. Just ask Boeing — or Airbus.
The USS Jimmy Carter, officially commissioned just last week, may be the top U.S. spy. It reportedly taps oceanic fiber networks. Once the water depth exceeds 1,000 feet, they usually are left to run uncovered along the ocean floor.
Nuclear propulsion is out of reach for most countries, placing the focus is squarely upon diesel-electric propulsion technology, coupled with recently maturing Air-Independent Propulsion (AIP) technology. With the addition of AIP, diesel submarines have the potential to play a more powerful role in naval strategy.
Conventional diesel-electric subs are operationally limited by the need to approach the surface every few days, or at least to extend a snorkel above the surface to replenish their air supply and operate the diesel engines to recharge the main batteries. One form of Air-Independent Propulsion will allow diesel-electric subs to continue running their diesel engines under the surface, generating electric power for propulsion while submerged for up to two weeks at a time.
AIP is a closed-loop system where a constant chemical reaction between hydrogen in gas form and liquid oxygen takes place to generate electrical energy. In addition, AIP is quiet and does not produce exhaust heat, which makes the sub nearly undetectable.
The German submarine-builder, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG (HDW), developed the AIP technology. The merger of HDW and Kockums creates the largest non-nuclear submarine building company in the world.
9. Unusual increase in mortality rate during product testing 8. The strange way his pants vibrate without a pager 7. Before accepting layoff notice, asks for details of your master plan 6. When shown NASA Tech Briefs article on new particle-beam weapons, he says “yeah, got one just like it in my shoe.” 5. Instead of computer solitaire, he plays baccarat 4. Emerges from performance review with collar folded in and shirt untucked 3. Actually knows the correct status of all his projects…and yours 2. You begin to suspect his interest in your wastebasket is less than honorable …and the No. 1 sign your co-worker may be an industrial spy 1. Wears white dinner jacket and black bow tie on casual day |
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