Security Renaissance

I just posted at my Computerworld blog about how New York City is in the process of enabling their 911 systems to receive images and video from cell phone callers.  I think that this is a huge leap forward – but I am circumspect regarding the security of any proprietary systems involved in enabling this functionality.

With systems such as this, several questions and concerns come to mind. As such, I posed the following “top-of-mind” questions in my Computerworld post:

[C]an someone doctor image files to falsely implicate someone?  Is the software that is receiving and processing the images/videos vulnerable to embedded code within the media files?

Again – a huge leap forward.  I just hope that the folks in charge of the systems looked before leaping.

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