{"id":121,"date":"2005-10-14T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T10:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=121"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:39:24","slug":"new-anti-theft-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"New Anti-Theft Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/10\/14\/spark.stride\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">news reports<\/a> about a new anti-theft gadget for mobile electronic devices (laptops, phones, etc.)  Interesting concept, but even if it works, I see a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The device has sensors to monitor the owner&#8217;s walking style.  If it detects a significant difference in gait, it assumes it&#8217;s been stolen and locks the device and asks for a password.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt occurs to me that if the rightful owner&#8217;s gait changes enough to trigger the device,  there&#8217;s a good chance that he&#8217;s also going to suffer from slight temporary intellectual impairment which might interfere with his ability to remember a password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some interesting news reports about a new anti-theft gadget for mobile electronic devices (laptops, phones, etc.) Interesting concept, but even if it works, I see a problem with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-1X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}