SBINet: Virtual fence, real disaster
Wired: Danger Room
The project was supposed to be stone-simple: "basically cameras on a pole," in the words of one congressman. Boeing would tweak some off-the-shelf surveillance gear to create a so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexican border. The whole thing would be done by early 2009. Well, that date has come and gone for SBINet, the cameras-on-a-pole project. The new deadline is 2016.
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