Friday, May 16, 2008

Twitter + Webcam = DIY Remote Intrusion Alerts

(Found via Lifehacker)

Not what I would consider a security solution, but definitively something to think about.
Shantanu Goel writes in his My Technophilic Musings blog about how he rigged up his webcam through linux code to a Twitter account.

File this away under things that can be done through the new wave of web-apps.
But as discussed before, and in the comments here, Twitter isn't exactly what you can consider a "secure" web based communication method. Shantanu's project is purely for personal use.

The more I come across Twitter based techniques, the more I think security organizations could and should host their own twitter-like services. Make them secure and use them for various communications and automated security options.

Link to blog post



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