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U.S. Homeland Security Officials to Scan DC Area License Plates
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:17:06 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via WTOP.com (AP). [snip] Homeland security officials in the Washington area plan to dramatically expand the use of automated license plate readers to prevent possible terrorist attacks. Officials from Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia have agreed to install 200 license plate readers on police vehicles, at airports and along roads. The plan announced Friday will be funded by federal homeland security grants for the area. Britain used the readers in the 1990s to deter Irish Republican Army attacks. But in the United States, the devices have mostly been used to regulate parking or catch car thieves. The readers will scan every license plate that passes by and will run the numbers through federal criminal and terrorist databases. [snip] More: http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1461567 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFIqPe9q1pz9mNUZTMRAoAJAJ48XeCTAJm5E7TVjWAEGmjX1BDQUwCcD3eb BYzkCGwu/FAYeKlkimh21qU= =vQPU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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