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Are You Insecure About Security?
Is it just me or is there always another computer program to learn? Now I'm meant to learn how to protect my e-mails with encryption software. A friend suggested I buy the "PGP" program because its developer was mentioned in the "The DaVinci Code". PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy - cute; but I wasn't convinced. The program requires both the sender and receiver to have an encryption key. Frankly, I could develop a much simpler, free program. Every time people write e-mails, they should pretend their mother is reading over their shoulder and then it wouldn't matter who else read it.
When I think wireless access, I think about being able to use my laptop in more places; but some cities are using wireless technology for surveillance. Oklahoma City has installed the world's largest, municipal, surveillance network, linking hundreds of video cameras. Chicago has installed the largest network of bus surveillance in the U.S., putting cameras on its 2,000 buses. Seventy-five percent of cities and towns with active or planned wireless networks will use them for public safety. That's an increase of 10% from 2006. When asked about the potential to violate peoples' privacy, a spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management and Communication said videos are destroyed after 30 days - but when he said that did his nose get longer?
Because the small, Texas town of Harold is 30 minutes from the county sheriff's office, school trustees worried about security in regard to school shootings. Their solution was to let staff carry concealed weapons. The staff must have a Texas license for a concealed weapon, be authorized by the district, receive crisis training and use bullets that minimize ricocheting. Of course, the 120 students might want the teachers to have anger management training too.
Although Iraq has more than 500,000 men in its security forces, the country's conservative beliefs have prevented women from joining. As of September 2008, however, 21 women are in the police force. They wear blue shirts and black trousers like the men, but their heads and necks are covered by a hijab. Because Iraqi men aren't allowed to search women, Al-Qaida has increasingly used female suicide bombers - 14 in Diyala province alone since November 2007. The primary job of the policewomen will be to search women at checkpoints. Two hundred more Iraqi women want to be policewomen - that's 200 more steps in the right direction.
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