Spy Review

ABC News has this piece on how to monitor your children’s activities given the fact that long vacations are just around the corner and children are going to be free from the classroom. Parents will have to be on their toes because children at home not only mean more work but also a change in routines. With greater access to computers and the internet, mobiles with internet, the all encompassing social web sties, and the cyber criminals which are lurking around, it is all the more important to monitor your kids’ activities. Although this piece is geared toward the American audience, the same principal would apply if you are a parent in the UK or elesewhere.

Ideally you should set your internet explorer’s (or any other browser you use) security option so that dangerous web site content sites are blocked. Alternatively you can install versions of software which let you know which sites they are using. These can be keystroke logging software which is available as downloads from the net or even free stuff like McGruff SafeGuard, from the National Crime Prevention Council.

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The importance of mobile phones cannot be ignored in the modern world – they keep us connected directly by voice, email and the internet. However, cell phone usage also contributes to more road accidents than ever before, whether it is a driver using a mobile phone or a person crossing a road who gets careless and preoccupied. Even though cell phone usage while driving is legally banned in many countries, people still use them.

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This is a recording device which is meant for cops to wear on their heads. It will record everything that is going on so it can provide important audio and video footage which will protect the cops from any charges of harassment or other charges criminals bring against them. Obviously, if a cop is wearing this gear, he/she is also going to be more careful as to what they are doing!

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Intelligence gathered by the British warns of the very real possibility of a Chinese cyber attack on the United Kingdom. British Telecom has had a new communication network installed by Huawei, the Chinese telecoms giant. This could disrupt and have repurcussions on several key industries that are the lifeblood of everyday Britain if an attack was to take place.

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Blimps were first made in the 1915s but gradually fell out of use after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 when the blimp burst into flames and 36 people were killed. Crrently blimps are mostly in use for advertisements since they move slowly and are extremely visible from the ground.

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Science fiction and movies have often been forerunners of technological innovations which have actually been realised in the future. Whether it was man’s journey to the moon or innovations in Star Trek like the communicator or others – they found a place in reality after some time.

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In reality, an eye sees an image and the brain translates it into the object or whatever it is that you are viewing. A camera, too, functions in ways similar to the eye, except that it permanently records the view, whether it is a still photo or a video recording.

Rob Spence, a Canadian filmmaker, who lost his vision in one eye at a young age and now wears an artificial eye, is going ahead with plans to put a video camera into that eye. This has still not been designed and there are many hurdles in the way of the engineers who are working on making him a part cyborg.

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According to Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman director general of MI5, now retired, it is. As the Home Office in Britain is gearing to increase state surveillance of individuals in every possible manner, including giving the police powers to monitor emails, telephone activity and internet usage of individuals, there is danger of personal privacy being eroded.

She warned in an interview the government was “frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties,” and went on to say that this was “precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state.”

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