Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Google Pays $1 Billion for Huge Mountain View Business Park
November 26th, 2018“All the better to see you with, my dear.” Via: The Mercury News: In a head-spinning mega-deal, Google has paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View business park, the Bay Area’s largest real estate purchase this year. It is also the second-largest property purchase in the United States this year, eclipsed only by another […]
Large Riots in France Over New Fuel Taxes
November 24th, 2018Via: Daily Mail: Huge plumes of smoke were seen on one of France’s most iconic streets today, as protesters burned large plywood sheets, chairs and other material in demonstrations against planned fuel hikes. A water cannon and rounds of teargas were also used by riot police against thousands of French ‘Yellow Vest’ fuel protesters in […]
Inside the British Army’s Secret Information Warfare Machine
November 19th, 2018Via: Wired UK: They are soldiers, but the 77th Brigade edit videos, record podcasts and write viral posts. Welcome to the age of information warfare.
Triggered: Monopoly for Millennials
November 19th, 2018Via: Independent: Monopoly has released a new edition targeted towards millennials – and it has everything from avocados to thrift stores, but no houses. Hasbro, the game makers behind the iconic board game created the millennial version to appeal to people born between 1981 and 1996 – by including all types of stereotypical millennial content. […]
U.S. Has Spent Nearly $6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
November 14th, 2018WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as […]
How ZTE Helps Venezuela Create China-Style Social Control
November 14th, 2018Via: Reuters: Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is helping Venezuela build a system that monitors citizen behavior through a new identification card. The “fatherland card,” already used by the government to track voting, worries many in Venezuela and beyond. … The card is increasingly linked by the government to subsidized food, health and other social programs […]
NGO Teaching Migrants to Lie to Border Guards
November 13th, 2018Via: Russia Today: A group that helped over 15,000 refugees and migrants to get into Europe has been caught on tape admitting to systematically training asylum seekers to exploit screening interviews by feigning trauma and persecution. Ariel Ricker, the executive director of Advocates Abroad, a major non-profit NGO which provides legal aid to migrants, has […]
U.S. Army Personnel to Compete in eSports to Boost Recruitment
November 12th, 2018In other news: Too Fat to Fight: Military Threatened by Childhood Obesity. Via: Stars and Stripes: The Army is putting together a team of video gamers from within its ranks to try to reach young Americans in the digital worlds where they spend much of their time. More than 15 years after launching “America’s Army,” […]
Alarm Over Talks to Implant UK Employees with Microchips
November 11th, 2018Via: Guardian: Britain’s biggest employer organisation and main trade union body have sounded the alarm over the prospect of British companies implanting staff with microchips to improve security. UK firm BioTeq, which offers the implants to businesses and individuals, has already fitted 150 implants in the UK. The tiny chips, implanted in the flesh between […]
Underperforming Chinese Workers Made to Drink Urine, Eat Bugs
November 8th, 2018Via: Reuters: Workers at a Chinese home renovation company who failed to complete their tasks had to drink urine, eat cockroaches or get whipped by a belt. Others had to shave their heads or drink water from a toilet bowl and had their salaries withheld by a month, according to images and videos on Chinese […]
