Daily Archives: 7/2/2004

An Undergraduate Project in Imaging Radar

7/2/2004 – 1:45 pm

Ankit Agrawal, Bob Fougere, Mridula Oravakandy and Greg Siemens wrote up their B.S. report Design, Construction and Testing of a Microwave Radar System for Through-Wall Surveillance (PDF) format. I have only skimmed the report, but it appears they were able to detect people standing behind a test wall by using SAR (synthetic aperature [...]

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in Mad Science | Comments (1)

The Department of Homeland Security says…

7/2/2004 – 12:48 pm

If you use Internet Explorer, the terrorists have already won!

The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer.

Apparently this has touched off a run on Mozilla/Firefox, which are being downloaded at greatly increased rates.

By Mark VandeWettering | Posted in Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, News | Comments (1)