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You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:07:16 GMT
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Original-From:
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John A. deVries II <zozzles@lanl!antispam!.gov>
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At 03:42 PM 8/31/99 , STARRWARSS@aol.com wrote:
> << Either the Furby in the USA is
> different from mine or the FBI/NSA must be very silly to consider Furby
> as a threat... >>
>
> I do believe they set the standard a while back for recording devices of any
> kind.
Actually, folks, the reason is deeper than that. Audio recording devices
have been forbidden here at Los Alamos since forever (no doubt at those
other places as well), but with the recent HUGE emphasis on security
they've been looking at devices that communicate via IR. This includes not
only palmtop computers (hey -- it might intercept a classified transmission
going to an IR-enabled printer in the room you are sitting in) but such
devices as IR-communicating watches!
Now, I don't really know what -kind- of threat they are worried about (i.e.
the information that would thus be protected) but when you are being paid
to be professionally paranoid you see shadows everywhere.
For what it is worth, this does present an interesting question with regard
to RCX bricks. Could it communicate with its tower (or other bricks) in a
particularly noisy IR environment? How about outdoors in bright daylight?
Would your autonomously operating RIS-bots get confused if you use your TV
remote? (btw: yes, I know the difference between various IR protocols and
that IrDA is a tad more complicated than most, etc., and so forth.)
Zoz
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John A. deVries II
zozzles@lanl.gov
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