(This is an update from this story about the demand letters sent by Kelora to most of the US's eCommerce sites) A form letter about some other topic, filled with fluff and nonsense about speeding up the patent process to bring products to market faster and spur innovation, yes, that's what the white house decided to send in response to the thousands of requests from...

The hearing which was originally scheduled for November 17th has been pushed back to December 1st. After a hearing the judge usually takes 4-8 weeks to rule; a week after the hearing you will be able to request a transcript. As soon as we get the transcript or any other news we will help distribute the news. This is an...

Update from Wednesday, May 23 2012: The claims by Kelora against Ebay, Microsoft, Adobe, Target, etc have been invalidated. We did an updated post here which is mostly just other site's commentary about the ruling that our readers found. I am not a lawyer, so this isn't legal advise, but if you get a letter about patent infringement from Kelora...

This is part one in a series of research reports on property crime in America. The purpose of these reports are not to incite fear or "fear monger" in an attempt to convince people to purchase our products. In fact, many of our points will suggest the opposite. Video Surveillance certainly has a place in preventing or deterring crime, but...

Homeland Security Watch has an excelent post up written by Lynda A. Peters, who is the City Prosecutor in the Chicago Corporation Counsel’s Office. It covers many of the additional considerations that governments must make for legal and record keeping requirements. The post is at http://www.hlswatch.com/2011/09/06/the-hidden-budget-costs-of-cctv-security-cameras/

Bing Invents Time Travel

We get asked a lot here at Security Camera Warehouse, "Should I use a bullet or a dome camera?" So, we decided to make a flowchart to make it easier for you to make the decision. You'll want to start at the bottom. For a thorough explanation and links to explanations of some of the terms used in the flowchart...

How to do all those things in Ubuntu Unity that everyone says you can't do in Ubuntu Unity These points came from a bunch of my (Matthew's) reddit comments, but since they will eventually become unavailable and they were a bit spread out and they didn't have pictures, here's a permanent place for those points. Before we get too far...

The opinions listed below are from Matthew, one of the owners of SCW. We might have a rebuttal from one of our other owners.   "Do you think "job creators" are more likely or less likely to create a job if he/she is taxed less and thus has more money?" I was asked the other day. This seems to be a...

The security industry spends a great deal of time talking about technical issues from SAS, encryption, user access, and server capabilities to entry access points, live monitoring, and video feeds. We might want to also spend some time reading comic books. In comics, there are super heroes and super villains. As security companies we have been trained to think of...

Here at SCW, we donate to open source software, created a political demonstration website against Canadian Usage Based Billing, and constantly try to balance the needs of security with our beliefs in freedom and the openness of information. So, we are going to take a break from talking about security, to talk about ubuntu, linux, wine and FOSS (Free and...

Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office is asking for anyone who has any knowledge of the situation surrounding the identity of an arsonist who set a teenage boy's car on fire.

Don't stop the pressure. Although the Canadian government has promised to reverse the decision, they haven't done anything yet. Keep hitting http://www.antiubb.com/what-can-i-do/ hard! The goal isn't to “do something” (quoting the interior minister). It's to stop regional monopolies from destroying entire segments of the world economy. For all we know, "doing something" might just mean adding a few more GBs...

Courtesy of Reddit and Vimeo December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

After going to ISC East (ISC Solutions) this year, we have expanded our product selections. We've added access control, Metal Detectors, door lock, and automatic gate closer products already. We'll be adding a ton more shortly.