Technical Capabilities Archive

  • Why the Predator drone encryption doesn’t matter

    Why the Predator drone encryption doesn’t matter

    Bruce Schneier wrote a great piece on the unencrypted Predator drone video feeds, noting that the drones were built for a post-Soviet, pre-insurgent era and that encryption, in the case of a live feed, is more of a problem than a threat. The problem is, the world has changed. Today’s insurgent adversaries don’t have KGB-level intelligence [...]

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  • Qik Bumps Up The Recording Resolution For The Droid

    Qik Bumps Up The Recording Resolution For The Droid

    As the number of Android-powered handsets on the market continues to expand, so do the technical capabilities of the applications that run on the platform. The Droid, for example, is the first handset to introduce video recording at a resolution 720x480 (more than double that of the 320x240 recording found on most other handsets), and app makers are already swooping in to take advantage of it. The first off the bat is the mobile video broadcasting service Qik, who will later tonight be announcing beta support for the increased resolution.

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