Detroit’s Spy Bowl XL
p2p news / p2pnet: This year’s Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan, will be about more a lot more than just football.
A state national guard ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team’ will be, "patrolling the stadium and nearby neighborhoods with handheld computers and special sensors tied together in a uniform system to fight terrorist threats," says Computerworld.
It’ll be the first time allow security officials to use a single interface, one wireless network "and a variety of related equipment" to "monitor potential threats, providing real-time data wirelessly to all security personnel, says the story.
"The big advantage here is that it uses Internet protocols, so [the incoming data] can be loaded into secure or classified Web sites, so personnel up to thousands of miles away can get readings in real time," LtCol Clark Hinga of the Michigan National Guard’s 51st Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team is quoted as saying.
It’s also being used by the Michigan National Guard, “as a field test for the U.S. Army’s Tank and Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), which is testing the technology to find ways to link sensors, military personnel, vehicles and other equipment using high-speed wireless networks for instant and reliable communications,” Hinga said, according to Computerworld.
Also See:
Computerworld – Super Bowl security to use sensor fusion to fight WMD threats, February 2, 2006
February 5th, 2006 at 2:59 am
Wireless huh? So some neer do well could find out what frequency is being used listen to some traffic to get a feel for the sorts of language being used then stage a fake incident to freak everyone out?
It’s not like these morons will have thought to encrypt this stuff or anything.