Privacy & Security

Pod Safe iPod Security Case

This iPod case, made by Secure-it, takes the traditional locking functionality for laptops and incorporated it for the iPod. This, which honestly isn’t that ugly, has a big, fatty combination lock to keep that iPod locked down. Strap it anywhere: your desk, belt loop, bicycle, backpack, etc. It would also work well for permanent mounting…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

Seiko Epson Developing Tiny Portable Fingerprint Sensors

Seiko Epson is commercializing a tiny 0.2mm fingerprint sensor that will allow manufacturers to secure any kind of mobile device. The sensor reads fingerprints by detecting the miniscule electric current from your finger when you touch the device. Possible applications are self-identifying credit cards, cellphones, and MP3 players. When a wrong fingerprint is entered, that…

Privacy & Security Jason Chen

Hawking HNC290G WiFI Camera

Geared toward the paranoid or voyeuristic home and small business owner, the HNC290G WiFi camera lets you view wirelessly exactly what’s going on on your property anytime, anywhere. Well, there’s a wire for the AC adapter, but other than that, totally wireless. The HNC290G supports 802.11b/g as well as 10/100 Ethernet, in case you want…

Privacy & Security Jason Chen

Kouwell KW-7292 Fingerprint Disk

Getting paranoid these days? Taiwan’s Kouwell offers its KW-7292 fingerprint disk, an external hard drive that won’t let you access its data unless you’ve got the right fingerprint. Its encryption can be configured more precisely, too, where you can designate specific folders that can only be accessed with fingerprint authentication. It’s also able to synchronize…

Privacy & Security Charlie White

D-Link 3G Wireless Video Camera

When WiFi security cameras just won’t cut it, there’s the D-Link DCS-2120 Securicam with 3G functionality. Viewers can get a live feed straight from the camera on their 3G cellphone, smartphone, PDA or laptop as long as both the device and the security camera has a 3G signal. The DCS-2120 has a CPU and a…

Privacy & Security Jason Chen

Scarf for Techno-Addict Dorks

Advertise to the world that you’re alone and want to stay that way with a privacy scarf developed by Joe Malia, a grad student who apparently can’t do without his portable media. Besides being completely dorky-looking, we can’t imagine this garment being anywhere near comfortable. How can you breathe in the thing? Well, if playing…

Privacy & Security Charlie White

Ask Gizmodo: Safety-fying a Mac mini?

Reader George writes: I am an admin at a small college and I am going to deploy some Mac Minis in an unattended lab. What is the best way people have found to tie the minis down so they don’t get legs and walk off? Well, George. I think we have the perfect solution for…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

World Cup Tickets Get RFID Security

GOOOOOOOAL! Who scored? Oh, security scored one on the baddies with the RFID embedded World Cup tickets. Riots have always a concern with big name true football games in Europe. The RFID embedded tickets won’t stop riots throughout town, but at any given time the FIFA will know the name, address, birth date, nationality and…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

Car Security, Bluetooth Style

Auto-txt is a car safety system that utilizes Bluetooth-enabled devices like cellphones and PDAs. The Bluetooth enabled device essentially becomes a second key to the car. The car will be automatically reported as stolen if the engine is started without the Bluetooth device in the vicinity. Auto-txt is the first protection and tracking system to…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

MyWay GPS For Your Cellphone

For those of you who actually leave your house on occasion, traveling to strange and unfamiliar destinations where getting lost is part of the itinerary, MyWay may prove to be a useful addition to your bag o’ tricks. It’s a GPS navigational system for phones running Symbian Series 60, including Sony Ericsson’s P910. MyWay exchanges…

Privacy & Security Nicholas Deleon

I-O Data HTH-USR for Nervous Nellies

If you get all butterfinger-y when you’re holding a running hard disk, the I-O Data HTH-USR might just save your ass. It has a 3D G-sensor that can tell if the drive is about to experience a sudden impact, parking the read/write heads and preventing any data damage. It’s about time somebody brought this technology…

Privacy & Security Charlie White

Vectrotel X8 Secure Mobile Phone

The feds aren’t going to like it when you hook up your Vectrotel X8, a normal-looking GSM cellphone that has some serious 128-bit encryption inside. It has the usual features of a run-of-the-mill handset, such as a Bluetooth and USB connectivity, 1.3-megapixel camera, a 320×240 display, and it works like an everyday cellphone, too. Things…

Privacy & Security Charlie White

State Dept Drops Lenovo, Cites Security Concerns

In another brilliant move by the United States government, nearly 900 Lenovo computers have been removed due to security risks. The computers were planned to be on networks with access to highly classified information. No, they weren’t removed because of flaws within the computer, but they were removed is because the US-China Economic and Security…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

Jiris Iris Scanner

Are fingerprint readers old hat for you now? Try the Jiris JCP1000 from Jiristech, which uses your iris as authentication. Program in your eye—either one is fine, unless you’re a pirate—and the Jiris will pick up your eye signature in a second. The included software also encrypts and decrypts your files. This works fine as…

Privacy & Security Jason Chen

Neighborhood Wifi Sharing

A team of grad students at UIUC have developed a way for people to securely share their bandwidth with their neighbors. Called Practical End-host collaborative Residential Multihoming (PERM), the device allows users to choose the best internet connection available among the current pool, and alerts the connection owners if there’s any misuse with their bandwidth.…

Privacy & Security Jason Chen

ASENDRO Robots To Secure World Cup, Find Sarah Connor

Tired of the Japanese monopolizing the field of Awesome Robot Science (I minored in that in college), two German companies have jointly developed a robot to help make the FIFA 2006 World Cup safe for all hooligans in attendance. Besides looking stylish with its military-green finish and its sharp treads, this bad boy can even…

Privacy & Security Johnb

Cellphone Trojan from Russia

Just in time for PayPal Mobile, there’s a Trojan that called RedBrowser that pretends to browse the web using SMS instead of a WAN connection. Instead of giving you sweet, sweet Internet access, however, it runs up $5 and $6 SMS charges for folks on the Russian Beeline, MTS and Megafon networks. Would we be…

Privacy & Security Johnb

FlexiSPY Pro: Spy On That Cell Phone

As if you weren’t in enough trouble, FlexiSPY will now drive the last nail in the coffin of your relationship by allowing you to spy on all aspects of your spouse’s phone use. The software allows a sickening amount of privacy-invading features. Not content to just let you eavesdrop on phone calls and SMS messages,…

Privacy & Security Rhbaby

CeBIT ’06: Motorola Mesh Camera

Motorola doesn’t just make shiny phones. We stumbled into the Moto booth to discover that their traditional product lines are alive and well, including CB radios and this Half-Life 2-esque death pod, the MEA “Rapid Response” Mesh Camera. It’s a bit old, but it really looked scary. Put a gun on there and you’re golden.…

Privacy & Security Johnb

NEC Shows Hyper-Secure Laptop

NEC introduced its Generation laptop for the education market, but it looks like it’s aimed at somebody who lives in a really bad neighborhood. It’s loaded with security measures that are so extensive they border on paranoia. First, the notebook is password-protected and login is done with via a hardware fingerprint security chip, great for…

Privacy & Security Charlie White

Pod Safe iPod Security Case

Seiko Epson Developing Tiny Portable Fingerprint Sensors

Hawking HNC290G WiFI Camera

Kouwell KW-7292 Fingerprint Disk

D-Link 3G Wireless Video Camera

Scarf for Techno-Addict Dorks

Ask Gizmodo: Safety-fying a Mac mini?

World Cup Tickets Get RFID Security

Car Security, Bluetooth Style

MyWay GPS For Your Cellphone

I-O Data HTH-USR for Nervous Nellies

Vectrotel X8 Secure Mobile Phone

State Dept Drops Lenovo, Cites Security Concerns

Jiris Iris Scanner

Neighborhood Wifi Sharing

ASENDRO Robots To Secure World Cup, Find Sarah Connor

Cellphone Trojan from Russia

FlexiSPY Pro: Spy On That Cell Phone

CeBIT ’06: Motorola Mesh Camera

NEC Shows Hyper-Secure Laptop

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