Living on a flood plain is dumb. I know, I did it. When we moved to British Columbia, our first priority was to find a home with a dock. (Don’t ask - just see my pages on boats.) We decided to live on Vancouver Island and went searching for property. We found a place on […]
Someone steals your stored fingerprint, what can you to do? IBM has developed an algorithm to create a “new” fingerprint. Potential commercial uses are algorithmed biometrics for each secure situation: bank, employment, etc. Full article at Technology Review
As reported on Slashdot, diamond particles have been grown on optical fibers; these particles can transmit one photon at a time. The claim is that by transmitting one photon at a time, any intercepted photons would be useless to a hacker. Per James Rabeau, it would be comparable to a flashlight with a single photon […]