09 Jul 2007
New York Plans Surveillance Veil For Downtown

Well, I guess a certain fabled futurist was off by 23 years...

News.com is reporting that a security system modeled after London's "Ring of Steel" is coming to New York City. The plan, to include license plate readers and over 3,000 public and private security cameras, hopes to aid officials in tracking and catching criminals. "But critics question the plan's efficacy and cost, as well as the implications of having such heavy surveillance over such a broad swath of the city. [...] The license plate readers would check the plates' numbers and send out alerts if suspect vehicles were detected. The city is already seeking state approval to charge drivers a fee to enter Manhattan below 86th Street, which would require the use of license plate readers. If the plan is approved, the police will most likely collect information from those readers too, Kelly said."

(link) [Slashdot]

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Samba will move to GPLv3

Well, we'll have to see how this plays out, but given the M$ position on GPLv3, and Samba's position as the carrier of Windows networking to the Unix world, it could get interesting. Very interesting.

The Free Software Foundation's new license gets a major endorsement from a major server software project.

(link) [CNET News.com]

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