Security

Overview

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The word security covers a wide range of issues:

• home security
  • intrusion prevention & detection
  • fire prevention & detection
  • disaster contingency plans (hurricanes, flooding)
  • back-up utility systems (emergency water, electricity, heat, communications)
• personal security
  • physical safety (especially anything not covered by "home security")
  • identity safety (prevention and detection of unauthorized use of one's personal credentials)
  • privacy (prevention and detection of unauthorized distribution of private information)
• "homeland security"
  • defense against open attack by known enemies
  • defense against terrorism (unexpected attack by unknown enemies)

Links

Articles

• David Brin:
  • on personal empowerment as the best technique for homeland security
  • on Sousveillance

News

• 2006-11-15 Amateur Videos Are Putting Official Abuse in New Light (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)