We put them on planes and they help us to reconstruct what happened when things go terribly wrong. So it makes sense that black boxes would start appearing in automobiles; it fits thematically with the trend toward digitally memorializing all testimonial information in order to assure accurate reconstruction of disputed events.
Tell that to the New […]

I’ve been waiting to see signs of this and, after seeing airline security alert levels raised today, the stories are starting to emerge. Here’s a story about a technology that uses video cameras to scan luggage for suspicious items by monitoring the electromagnetic energy given off by different objects. So explosives can be theoretically be […]

Federal courts have been using the ECF/Pacer online filing system for a long time, making most court documents available to all litigants. But for the first time ever, a federal court has placed all evidence in a criminal case onto the Internet. And it’s one hell of a case: United States vs. Zacarias Moussaoui.
It’s a […]