"Vendors will build in things that they claim are security mechanisms but are actually there for anti-competitive reasons".One current, and highly controversial, example is Palladium, Microsoft's proposed technology for fencing off secure areas inside a computer.
Add in the new technology and fencing, and the border with Mexico is now one of the most heavily policed borders in the world.
The amendment largely addresses border concerns, with significant increases in funding for agents, technology and fencing.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection last year spent more than $300 million for border security, fencing infrastructure and technology, and has requested appropriations totaling nearly $400 million for 2015.
The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence built by the Pentagon military contractor, Boeing, which was awarded an $860 million contract to provide the technology, physical fences and vehicle barriers.
LOS ANGELES — Government auditors reported Thursday that the effort to secure the Mexican border with technology and fences has fallen years behind schedule, will cost billions of dollars extra in maintenance costs and has no clear means of gauging whether illegal crossings have been curtailed.
Simple technologies that are locally available and affordable such as fencing the wells with readily available materials, and putting SDWs covers/lids would completely remove the problem.
I tell her, create fencing — her fencing.
