IBM's S3 security system may head to the US-Mexico border
By Cyrus Farivar 
posted Nov 7th 2006 9:06PM
posted Nov 7th 2006 9:06PM
IBM's decided that it's had enough of making traditional processors, and instead will head further into the lucrative military and law enforcement business. Big Blue just announced today that it's begun selling the "Smart Surveillance System," or S3. According to Reuters, the new system is able to record video feeds and the analyze the information gathered, sounding an alarm when it "identifies suspicious activity." CNET also reports that IBM is in talks with the federal government to put an S3 along the US-Mexico border. According to IBM, the Feds are "doing backflips" every time they see the S3, which apparently can index and search videos based on specific objects and/or actions. We're still not sure if this is a better system than that web-based border cam setup down in Texas, but perhaps the S3 can spy on those Texan cams to make sure they're getting the job done.[Via Slashdot]
Read - Reuters
Read - CNET
Read - IBM press release
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdrGKwkmxAU
It'd be nice if they could host the cams on the web, so at least us taxpayers could see what our dollars are stopping. :P
As I recall, didn't IBM supply equipment to the Nazis so they could keep track of the Jews?
Yeah, actually, they did. Thanks to that, the allies were able to figure out where a lot of the Jews were being kept. The Nazis were some of the best administrators ever, thanks in part to that system.
Splinter Céll: Border Hop
i doubt it would stop illegal crossing...watch Mexico start to mass produce aluminum foil clothing and research development of EMP weapons.
I think a good way to test S3 is to watch all those "illegal aliens" that are gonna be needed to build the wall at the border. Could S3 detect "suspicious holes" on such wall across Tejas? Yep, with a J.