Friday, July 14, 2006

Lost highway / InfoSecuirty, July 2006

http://digbig.com/4kyfw
Ken Munro
"Speed camera maker Gatso has already launched a camera capable of IP based communications. It features a rather useful Ethernet port. Moreover, automated number plate recognition is another major benefit of digital imagery, so it's highly likely these two technologies will be combined. But have the authorities really addressed the security issues of a networked speed camera system? First, it's fairly straightforward to prove the authenticity of a film image, and interfering with a film image inside a speed camera is hard work. Proving the authenticity of a digital image is another matter altogether. "