Tag Archive for 'security'
Valentine’s day is always tricky. You want to set up some elaborate celebration for your girlfriend, but that bitch wife of yours is threatening to derail the whole day. Wire-tapping, following your car, even having you shot by ex-SAS warriors, nothing is too extreme for her. Well, GSMK can’t help with the latter two, but [...]
As Grandmaster Flash so sensibly said, “it’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under.” Perhaps he would’ve had a little more self-confidence if he’d been the winning bidder on Troy Hurtubise’s eBay auction for his Trojan body armour.
Developing ballistic-proof personal defence systems seems to be Troy’s hobby of [...]
It’s undoubtedly a dangerous world out there. Beyond your patio doors and naive gnomes is a hotbed of depravity and murder, where beneath every bridge and parapet a selection of LEDs lurk. Picture the scene: you’re in a lift, you’ve thumbed the button for the fifteenth floor. You’re off to see your financial adviser, no [...]
Maybe I’m a big fat dirty slab of cynic, but when I see expensive and overly-designed security tech my first thought is usually “wow, I bet a thief would take that first.” Personally, I’m looking at this Lasershield Systems starter kit and thinking the base-unit looks like a Bose knockoff and the PIR sensor like [...]
It’s easy to forget sometimes that behind every door, under every bed and inside every small rucksack there’s a virus-writing, malware-scripting paedophile waiting not only to vigorously molest your children but empty your bank-account in the process. Thankfully companies like Global Security One are here not only to stoke the flames of pants-wetting fear but [...]
Everyone knows that wandering alone in dark places can make one a bit nervous. You never know who’s out there, and what they might do to you. Sure, you can carry pepper spray, but to be effective you need to actually get it in their eyes. Stun guns are great, but they tend to be [...]
These days we seem to carry just about everything on our USB drives, from family photos to important client documents. While most of us wouldn’t be too upset if the pictures of our recent family trip to see grandma got into the wrong hands, we might not be quite as apathetic about our client documents. [...]
If you’ve ever looked longingly at the web-enabled security droids becoming more prevalent (and of, I sometimes wonder, dubious effectiveness - what if someone steals your $10,000 droid?) but haven’t the bank balance to fund your robot addiction then maybe you could take inspiration from Dean Shelato. He’s set himself the project of taking a [...]
Never mind James Bond - it looks like the police force are getting all the cool toys. Popular Science flagged down a cop-car and went shopping for some serious future law-enforcement tech, and came up with a list of must-haves that is by turns jaw droppingly cool or pants wettingly scary. As the environment that [...]
After the news that China has decided to force manufacturers to standardise phone charging ports to the mini-USB format, it turns out that there’s an even easier way to get the industry-wide feature you want implemented: just be the FBI. What cellphone manufacturers are reluctant to include in-among all the blurb about Bluetooth and high-speed [...]
