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Protecting Our Perimeter: "Border Searches" Under the Fourth Amendment
This report addresses the scope of the government's authority to search and seize individuals at the border pursuant to the constitutional framework that encompasses the border search exception to the warrant and probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment. This report also describes the varying levels of suspicion generally associated...
Tags: border security, 9/11 commission
White papers 2005-05-17
Border Security: The Role of the U.S. Border Patrol
The United States Border Patrol USBP has a long and storied history as our nation's first line of defense against unauthorized migration. Today, the USBP's primary mission is to detect and prevent the entry of terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, and illegal aliens into the country, and to interdict drug...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, transportation security, border security, homeland security, transportation
White papers 2005-05-10
Border Security: Fences Along the U.S. International Border
This report outlines the issues involved with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) completion of a three-tiered, 14-mile fence, along the border near San Diego, California. The state of California has delayed completion of the fence due primarily to legal and policy conflicts with its federally-approved, state-run Coastal Management Program....
Tags: fence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, border security, California
White papers 2005-05-09

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Drug smugglers curtail scientists' work
Armed outlaws near U.S.-Mexican border test will of researchers MEXICO CITY -- Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night. "I use night-vision goggles and you could...
Articles 2007-12-27
Ipswitch, Inc. Announces IMail Server Will Power E-mail Communications for Drive Around the World's ZERO SOUTH Project
Ipswitch, Inc., a leading developer ofnetwork monitoring, messaging and secure managed file transfer solutions,today announced that Drive Around the World, a team of San Francisco BayArea professionals who use long-range driving expeditions to promotecross-border understanding and goodwill through innovative educationalprograms, will use IMail Server during a 10-day, 1,024-mile South Poleexpedition...
Articles 2007-11-28
Report Highlights Inadequate Pandemic Planning as a Threat to EU Security.
LONDON, October 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Inadequate Border Control and Poor on-the-Ground Administration and Delivery of Antivirals and Vaccines Could Threaten EU Security A report to be published in an upcoming issue of the World Health Organisation WHO Bulletin will...
Articles 2007-10-10
Electronic Sensor Technology Appoints Gary Watson as Interim Chief Scientist
NEWBURY PARK, Calif. -- Electronic Sensor Technology EST (OTCBB:ESNR) has just announced that it has accepted the resignation of Edward J. Staples as Chief Scientific Officer and Director of the company. Gary Watson, Vice President of Engineering, is appointed as the interim Chief Scientist. Mr. Watson has been with the...
Articles 2007-03-14
Packet Design Awarded First Patent for BGP Routing Technology
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Packet Design, Inc., has won its first patent for a technology that addresses security and reliability issues in the Border Gateway Protocol BGP, the routing protocol used by virtually all network routers for communication between service providers and large enterprises. U.S. Patent No. 7,120,792...
Articles 2006-12-12
NORTH KOREA . . .THE NUCLEAR COUNTDOWN PROLIFERATION: CRISIS
SOME time within the next few days, North Korean scientists plan to detonate a nuclear device 2000 metres below the ground in a disused coal mine along the country's northern border with the Chinese provinces of Jilin. Following a military rally in Pyongyang last week attended by...
Articles 2006-10-08
Xerox Scientists Develop MicroText Font; Digitally Printing Tiny Words and Numbers Will Help Make Documents More Secure
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) scientists have developed a font so small that you need a magnifying glass to read the words. The new MicroTextTM Specialty Imaging Font, just 1/100th of an inch high, is designed to help make valuable documents with personal information such as birth certificates,...
Articles 2006-09-14
Migration, Regional Integration and Human security: The Formation and Maintenance of Transnational Spaces
Migration, regional integration and human security; the formation and maintenance of transnational spaces. Ed. by Harald Kleinschmidt. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 289 pages $99.95 Hardcover Research in migration and ethnic relations series JV6271 ...
Articles 2006-08-01
Century Foundation Fellow Receives Guggenheim Fellowship; Patrick Radden Keefe Awarded for Research on International Terror Organizations.
Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, April 19 AScribe Newswire -- Century Foundation Fellow Patrick Radden Keefe has been honored with the 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship for his research regarding the networks of cross-border criminal and terrorist organizations. Keefe was honored along with 187...
Articles 2006-04-19
Computers tally cost of security
LIVERMORE -- Tighter security can have hidden costs, but only recently have scientists using computer simulations begun tallying them up. In the past four years, federal port and border officials have installed hundreds of fingerprinting machines, identity-checking computers and detectors for chemical, nuclear and radiological weapons....
Articles 2005-10-31
Computers help tally costs of security
LIVERMORE -- Tighter security can have hidden costs but only recently have scientists using computer simulations begun tallying them up. In the last four years, federal port and border officials have installed hundreds of fingerprinting machines, identity-checking computers and detectors for chemical, nuclear and radiological weapons....
Articles 2005-10-30
Computers crunching numbers on security
LIVERMORE -- Tighter security can have hidden costs but only recently have scientists using computer simulations begun tallying them up. In the last four years, federal port and border officials have installed hundreds of fingerprinting machines, identity-checking computers and detectors for chemical, nuclear and radiological weapons....
Articles 2005-10-28
Single molecule detection for future border security.
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 August 2005-CSIRO AUSTRALIA: Single molecule detection for future border securityC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11082005 Advances in the detection of individual molecules that make up potentially hazardous compounds are leading scientists to develop new border security screening tools. ...
Articles 2005-08-11
U.S. border still deemed vulnerable to terrorists
WASHINGTON -- The federal government's efforts to prevent terrorists from smuggling a nuclear weapon into the United States are so poorly managed and reliant on ineffective equipment that the nation remains extremely vulnerable to a catastrophic attack, scientists and a government auditor warned a House committee on Tuesday. ...
Articles 2005-06-22
U.S. steps up nuke detection at ports
WASHINGTON -- The federal government is stepping up efforts to stop terrorists from smuggling nuclear or radiological material into the USA, even as critics fault it for poor planning and outdated equipment. The government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to screen more cargo at the nation's...
Articles 2005-06-06
Robot army will think for itself.
May 25, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) Scientists are working on teams, or swarms, of robots that can think independently and work collectively. Canadian-based firm Frontline Robotics have created semi- autonomous swarms for tasks like border patrols and airport security, which...
Articles 2005-05-25
ADT Australia Partners with ObjectVideo to Offer Intelligent Video Surveillance to Protect Critical Infrastructure Against Terrorism and Other Threats
RESTON, Va. -- ObjectVideoTM, the leader in intelligent video surveillance software, today announced an authorized partnership with ADT Australia, which will begin providing its customers with ObjectVideo VEWTM, a patented, award-winning technology currently deployed across the U.S. to protect against terrorism and other threats to critical infrastructure. "With...
Articles 2004-09-23
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