[luau] Brian Chee on Front Page Honolulu Advertiser

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Cheeseburger, Cheers, Brian Chee. No matter. Front Page news:

UH team thwarts thefts, vandalism in building

By Beverly Creamer <mailto:bcreamer at honoluluadvertiser.com>
Advertiser Education Writer

Cheeseburgers jammed into CD-rom drives. Super Glue in floppy disc 
drives. Rearranged or missing computer keys. Thousands of attempted 
hacks into the system.

It's the kind of vandalism that has cost the University of Hawai'i 
thousands of dollars over the past few years, Brian Chee says.

But perhaps no longer.

Chee and others from the Information and Computer Science Department in 
the Pacific Ocean Science and Technology Center have created a cheap and 
effective surveillance and security system that has cut to zero the 
break-ins, loss and damage in the information technology area over the 
past six months.

The same type of system may be implemented elsewhere, too, but the ICS 
system is the first up and running, Chee said.

With campus security on many people's minds because of recurring 
break-ins and thefts,the fairly inexpensive solution — the ICS video 
surveillance system cost between $15,000 and $20,000 — is receiving 
interest campuswide.

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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Dec/22/ln/ln01a.html

Mele Kalikimaka! wayne