First off, who gives a shit. This is being installed at the local city/county level. Why the hell would 99.9% of slashdoters care about this? How many people reading this live there?
That said, the potential for abuse of this system is far to great. Will the people operating the databases be held accountable for the REASONS the license plates are being tracked and tagged? Say I admin the databases and I want to track my daughter, wife, girlfriend's ex-bf..what's to stop me?
Compuware Vantage suite of tools have got to be the cadillac of network "sniffing", with the exception that if you can't touch the A or Z points of your data transfers, then stick with the usual packet capture sniffers. Otherwise if you can get away with installing agents on the end servers/systems..try to get your hands on compuware appvantage.
Trust me, it ROCKS. It's the END ALL to network problems..no more guilty until proven innocent bs. Generate reports detailing exactly what's going on with the network, and that the problem is not "the network". (which, *ahem*, it always is)
http://www.compuware.com/products/vantage/appvanta ge.htm
This combined with netflow exports on the routers, mtrg pulling snmp graphs and generic packet sniffers and you'll be sitting pretty.
The number one reason why we don't have flying cars:
People would have to fly them.
Anyone who's ever had to drive more than day in their life knows what im talking about.
IM spam will begin? Who's to say it hasn't? I've received random spam messages on ICQ, AOL IM, IRC, and windows messenger for christ sakes.
The key thing about IM's: Generally in the most popular versions, the system is under central control (as compared to the open smtp protocol), which means, if company's start to see that THEIR spam (um, i mean, legitimate "advertisment windows") start to become overshadowed by unwashed hordes of spammers, they can simply use their central power to shut down offending accounts..some very simple mechanisms include putting limits on messages sent per amount of time, and also having users "warn" because of of spam..
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First off, who gives a shit. This is being installed at the local city/county level. Why the hell would 99.9% of slashdoters care about this? How many people reading this live there? That said, the potential for abuse of this system is far to great. Will the people operating the databases be held accountable for the REASONS the license plates are being tracked and tagged? Say I admin the databases and I want to track my daughter, wife, girlfriend's ex-bf..what's to stop me?
And all this time I thought the mile high club was something tototally different!
Compuware Vantage suite of tools have got to be the cadillac of network "sniffing", with the exception that if you can't touch the A or Z points of your data transfers, then stick with the usual packet capture sniffers. Otherwise if you can get away with installing agents on the end servers/systems..try to get your hands on compuware appvantage. Trust me, it ROCKS. It's the END ALL to network problems..no more guilty until proven innocent bs. Generate reports detailing exactly what's going on with the network, and that the problem is not "the network". (which, *ahem*, it always is) http://www.compuware.com/products/vantage/appvanta ge.htm
This combined with netflow exports on the routers, mtrg pulling snmp graphs and generic packet sniffers and you'll be sitting pretty.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of shithawks carrying tiny memory cards"
The number one reason why we don't have flying cars: People would have to fly them. Anyone who's ever had to drive more than day in their life knows what im talking about.
IM spam will begin? Who's to say it hasn't? I've received random spam messages on ICQ, AOL IM, IRC, and windows messenger for christ sakes.
The key thing about IM's: Generally in the most popular versions, the system is under central control (as compared to the open smtp protocol), which means, if company's start to see that THEIR spam (um, i mean, legitimate "advertisment windows") start to become overshadowed by unwashed hordes of spammers, they can simply use their central power to shut down offending accounts..some very simple mechanisms include putting limits on messages sent per amount of time, and also having users "warn" because of of spam..