"Surveillance system keeps road traffic in check" from The Enginner

"A collaboration effort between European academics and industry partners has led to the development of an automated and robust traffic surveillance system that could make road travel across Europe safer."

"Huawei Technologies, the biggest Chinese maker of telecommunications equipment, said Monday that it had established a security center in Britain to allow its products and software to be examined and tested." from nternational Herald Tribune

"New HK$1,000 banknote raises the 'bar' on security" from South China Morning Post

"Officials say it will be inserted at a cost, but will make the bills more difficult to copy. The device has been used for the first time this year in some Pacific Ocean islands and African countries. The mainland has also used it on commemorative notes, but no Western countries have so far used the technology.


Hong Kong Note Printing Limited general manager Francis Lau said: "Not many have adopted this feature because it's new. Special machines and inks are required and than can add to costs."

"The interception of mail bombs sent by militants from Yemen via FedEx and UPS last month was a dramatic reminder to air passengers that they could be flying with poorly screened cargo." from South China Morning Post

" "The challenge is staying ahead of what the bad guys come up with, trying to be proactive rather than reactive," says Lori Beckman, president of US company Aviation Security Consulting and former director of security at Denver International Airport." 

"It's what Issac Yeffet, former head of security for Israel's hypersecure flag carrier EI AI, calls a "patch on top of a patch" - successively reaching to previous threats with improved technologies in a security race in which the terrorists are always likely to be one step ahead: one lunatic comes up with a particularly wacky idea, and the whole global airport security industry tries to make sure that, if someone else tries exactly the same thing, they're foiled."

"Passenger screening, meanwhile, is moving from simple identification towards complex biometrics - fingerprints, retinal scans and facial pattern recognition."

"It is difficult to measure success - the best result is nothing happening As Lawson puts it: "Given the cost of security technology and implementing it for an airline nowadays, especially when they're running as lean as they are, it's a bit difficult to persuade them to spend a lot of money on something that might happen."

"The events of 9/11, for example, happened not because of a particular screening failure, but because no one had thought of the possibility that terrorists armed with Stanley knives might try to fly planes into buildings. In other words, the issue, as much as security, is imagination."

"Australia is the final foreign stop on Clinton's seven-nation trip to the Asia-Pacific region." from South China Morning Post

"A senior defence official said the Pentagon was "looking at how we can make sure our forces are not just oriented in Northeast Asia, but are looking through down to Southeast Asia and then into the Indian Ocean as this part of the security environment becomes more Important." "

" "The dangers of proliferation of nuclear weapons and chemical and biological weapons are more far-reaching. It can alter the whole balance of power in a region," he said." from South China Morning Post