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RSS bombsBody scanners to check UK rail passengers for bombs
News In the immediate aftermath of the 7 July bombings in London the government has also said it planned to evaluate high-tech millimetre wave imaging technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people. [31 Oct 2005]
NYC subway gets $212m high-tech anti-terror scanners
News The UK government and police are also looking at the use of sophisticated high-tech scanning equipment to detect concealed bombs and weapons on London's underground transport system following the terrorist bombings on 7 July. [25 Aug 2005]
Politicians call for Tube mobile coverage review
News The Lib Dem members of the Greater London Assembly claim mobiles will pose a risk to the transport system as they can be used to detonate bombs remotely. The Liberal Democrats have called for a rethink of plans to make mobile phones work on the... [28 Jul 2005]
Police to test bomb-detecting body-scanners
News The government and police are planning to evaluate scanning technology that can see through clothes and detect concealed bombs and weapons on people following the suicide bomb attacks on London this month. [22 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards won't stop terrorists
Comment There is scant evidence that ID cards or other controls on the individual will make a significant difference to our safety against the threat of bombs and such like. As with the war on drugs, the government has apparently made little progress in... [12 Jul 2005]
Leader: Tech and terror
Leader Some mainstream news programmes started to talk about mobile networks being used to detonate the four bombs. While the first scenario above - bombs set off from afar - is technically possible, it is unlikely in the case of the Tube trains that were... [11 Jul 2005]
Bomb blast web traffic - more results
News Web traffic surged yesterday as British people looked for information after four bombs were set off in London. According to data from web monitoring company Hitwise, British clicks to news sites surged yesterday to 5.56 per cent of all websites... [08 Jul 2005]
London attacks: Were mobiles used to detonate bombs?
News The role that such devices played in the Madrid bombings, which left almost 200 people dead in the Spanish capital, is well documented: 10 bombs were attached to mobile handsets, with the phones' alarms used to detonate the explosives. [08 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.07.05
Round-Up Operators were quick to deny, however, that the signals had been dropped over fears that mobile phones had been used to detonate bombs, and claimed they were doing everything within their powers to handle the unprecedented call demand. [08 Jul 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: 7/7 shows we need more networks
Comment I was in a meeting when the first bombs exploded today, and as the news reports came in, I watched a silence spread as people thought of those poor souls who left home with a happy life this morning. A hotel close to Lambeth Bridge, London [08 Jul 2005]
Email traffic doubled after London bomb blasts
News Email traffic has doubled in Europe today after four bombs exploded in central London. Sky News has reported that 45 people were killed this morning after three bombs exploded on the London Underground train network and a fourth detonated on a... [07 Jul 2005]
London attacks: Mobile networks feel the strain
News Rumours that the mobile networks have been shut down to prevent terrorists using mobile phones to detonate bombs appear to have been quashed for the present. The UK's major mobile networks have struggled under the strain of those in London rushing... [07 Jul 2005]
Building Access Control Applications
White Paper Concerns about bombs, theft, and employee management prompted the passing of a law that requires all public offices to develop progressive measures for tracking personnel. Responding to a new Italian law, post offices in Bologna, Italy recently... [15 Jun 2005]
Building Access Control Applications
Concerns about bombs, theft, and employee management prompted the passing of a law that requires all public offices to develop progressive measures for tracking personnel. Responding to a new Italian law, post offices in Bologna, Italy recently... [15 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.04.05
Round-Up Bombs Away' - The Grateful Dead What do you buy the man who has everything. An iPod, of course. George W. Bush (who, with the exception of 'a brain', may well meet the above criterion) is now the proud owner of one of the must-have gadgets, which... [15 Apr 2005]
