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Lockheed Martin Hardware to Protect NYC Transit
Gerhardius writes "Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $212 million contract to provide cameras and sensors for New York City subways, bridges and tunnels." The entire program is being conducted under the guise of anti-terrorism and includes plans for a possible wireless network which would allow cellular phones to be used in case of emergency.
And this is needed because a piece of paper with "where each card reader is physically located" isn't sexy enough?
Officials would pinpoint the site, watch the attempted entry on a video monitor and send a security officer to check out the situation.
...because you can't just send a "security officer" in the first place? And do we really think that our intrepit Bad Dude will stick around to have a chat with the "security officer"?
In the second, a briefcase is left on a busy Midtown subway platform. As a camera beams live images, software can differentiate the moving people from the motionless package, sending off an alert about an unattended, suspicious object. Police officers with bomb-sniffing dogs would be sent to the platform.
...and if it actually is a bomb, by the time they've figured out "hey, we should go down there and check it out", it blows up. If it doesn't, it's just some guy's briefcase he absent-mindedly forgot on the platform.
Plus thanks to cell phone coverage, terrorists can now leave IED's with cell phones for activators on a train...
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