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...software industry is learning from the credit-card industry, which has digitized crime watching based on card users' behavior. Basically, the credit-card companies monitor your card patterns, and when something out of the ordinary happens--a card is used overseas, yet the cardholder rarely travels, for example--the alarm goes off. Is the cardholder really in London? It sounds creepy and intrusive, but tracking exceptions to detect intruders is the basis for several new security approaches. And it has already become an invisible part of our lives. Stolfo has a start-up called System Detection, a two-year...
Adams House Master Sean Palfrey said the House can’t change the sensitivity of the entire alarm system in one fell swoop. The myriad detectors throughout the common areas and student rooms have to be individually moved or adjusted if problems arise, he said...
Following the 2:45 a.m. alarm last Friday morning, Adams resident Rohit Chopra ’04 sent a scathing e-mail to the House open list...
During the second Adams false alarm this weekend, at 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, Melissa D. Chittle ’06 said she—but not her roommates—went downstairs...
Andrew J. Miller ’04 and Katie A. Giblin ’06 said that they evacuate each time the alarm sounds—but for different reasons...