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title="AJC Article about Video Surveillance in Atlanta" href="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/atlanta-council-votes-to-spend/nSdbc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">As reported this week by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), the City Council for the City of Atlanta voted to spend $2.25 million to expand its video surveillance presence in the city.  City of Atlanta officials are pointing to the existing video surveillance infrastructure as one reason that crime in some categories has been reduced.

you have an access control system for your facility that allows you to use access cards or keyfobs to open locked doors?  If so, you probably manage that system with a server that has software that holds the system configurations and the list of cardholders.

eo surveillance cameras are widely deployed in many homes and businesses.  In fact, this article from Popular Mechanics magazine states that “there are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras now deployed in the United States shooting 4 billion hours of footage a week.”  But, we often encounter users and owners of video cameras who are not able to view their video whenever they want from wherever they want which makes that video much less useful.

seems that there is a growing problem of public camera vandalism.  There have been two recent instances in the news where public video surveillance systems were damaged.  The first happened right here in metro Atlanta and was reported by the AJC:

residents of San Jose, California got surprised recently by the passage of a new alarm response ordinance.  According to this article in the San Jose Mercury News from January, 2012, the San Jose police department has decided not to respond to any security system signals unless there is verification of a crime in progress.

an style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Have you herd of the term “Office Creeper?”  If not, the definition can be found on this Word Spy web page.  Essentially, an Office Creeper is someone who sneaks into an office building during regular work hours to steal personal property from offices in that building.

ay’s post comes from an article posted recently online by The Telegraph about a heist in Manchester, England.  I think this article shows the incredible steps that thieves will take to steal.

m our friends at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) comes this latest tale of a cowardly caper.  Last Friday, two teenagers, one dressed as Tweety Bird and one dressed as Elmo, robbed a convenience store in south Georgia.  They were apprehended shortly after.  This is the link to the article:

you are a regular follower of the news, you will know about the major floods that have inundated parts of Thailand.  Unfortunately, some of the areas that experienced the heavy flooding contained factories that manufactured electronic goods that are regularly consumed here in the United States.  One example of a product that is now in short supply because of these terrible floods is the hard disk drive.  Western Digital is a major manufacturer of hard drives and this is a picture of one of their factories in Thailand: