March 01, 2004 — CSO — Number of High Orange alerts issued since the five-color scale debuted in March 2002 5
Orange alerts that coincided with a holiday season or historically significant date 4
Orange alerts that coincided with the start of a war 1
Total monitored population in the United States in 1994 21.6 million
Total monitored population in 2003 29.9 million
On a 0-to-5 scale (5 being highest), demand for CCTV from power utilities 2.7
Demand from military 2.8
Demand from law enforcement 2.9
Demand from schools 3.4
Number of vehicles that use E-ZPass radio tags for electronic toll payment in the Northeast 5.1 million
Subpoenas issued since 1998 to New York State Thruway Authority for E-ZPass electronic toll data 128
Number of cases in which it turned over records 61
Total number of authorized wire, oral and electronic intercepts (wiretaps) completed in 2002 1,358
Change in federal requests from 2001 +2%
Change in federal requests between 2000 and 2001 +41%
Ratio of drug-case-related wiretaps to wiretaps for all other offenses 3.44 to 1
Number of arrests resulting from wiretaps that terminated in 2002 3,060
Number of those arrests that turned into convictions 490
Number of security-related groups involved in the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones 5
Number of guests, all of whom signed confidentiality agreements 350
Percentage of invitations that were hand-delivered to prevent counterfeiting 100%
Additional counter-counterfeiting device used on invitations Secret ink
Nationality of male choir that was frisked before the ceremony Welsh
Damages awarded to the happy couple when tabloid Hello! published hidden camera photos of the wedding $24,220
Cost of a top-of-the-line, color wireless hidden camera disguised in a silk plant $499
Cost of a device to detect a hidden camera $319.55
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Microsoft published its Patch Tuesday Preview for February of 2012 a few minutes ago. IT admins can expect nine bulletins to address 21 security vulnerabilities.
It looks like four bulletins will be rated critical while the rest are designated as important.
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