Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Citigroup Testing Eye-Scanning ATM
October 27th, 2015Via: NBC: No card reader, no PIN pad, no touch-screen display — how you bank at your ATM could drastically change in the not-so-distant future. Citigroup is testing an automated teller machine made by Canton, Ohio-based Diebold that relies on your smartphone and perhaps an eye scan to dispense your cash.
Is the Retarded Trend of Men-Wearing-Women’s-Pants a Population Reduction Program?
October 19th, 2015For a few years, I’ve been baffled by the ridiculous trend of men wearing skinny jeans. It’s easy to just shake your head and pass this off as yet another aspect of the zombie apocalypse. (In the town closest to me, they like to add a blown-out bluetooth speaker blaring rap music to the ensemble […]
CITE: The $1 Billion City That Nobody Calls Home
October 7th, 2015Via: CNN: In the arid plains of the southern New Mexico desert, between the site of the first atomic bomb test and the U.S.-Mexico border, a new city is rising from the sand. Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown, and neat rows of terraced housing in […]
The Era Of Automatic Facial Recognition And Surveillance Is Here
October 5th, 2015Via: Forbes: ID checks were a common response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, but they’ll soon be obsolete. You won’t have to show your ID, because you’ll be identified automatically. A security camera will capture your face, and it’ll be matched with your name and a whole lot of other information besides. Welcome to […]
Is Anything Happening in New Zealand Besides Sportsball, Fashion, Celebrities and Recipes?
October 3rd, 2015nzherald.co.nz, just now: Endless lobotomizing schlock.
Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child
September 17th, 2015I would assume that every utterance from children playing with the dolls will be archived. Check this out: The writers marked important questions with ‘‘flags,’’ and this enabled Hello Barbie’s most unnerving power: She could remember the answers and use them for conversation starters days or weeks later. ‘‘She should always know that you have […]
Increased Use of Computers in Classrooms: “More Likely to be Associated with Lower Results”
September 16th, 2015Via: BBC: Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils’ performance, says a global study from the OECD. The think tank says frequent use of computers in schools is more likely to be associated with lower results. The OECD’s education director Andreas Schleicher says school technology had raised “too many false […]
The Website That Visualizes Human Activity in Cities Across the World
September 9th, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: Phone data is set to become a standard resource that almost anyone can use to study and watch humanity continuously, much as they can now watch the weather unfold anywhere on the planet almost in real time. But one thing is holding them back—the lack of powerful computational tools that can […]
Maryland Man Fined $50 for Picking Berries in Park
August 30th, 2015Via: Reason: To me, nothing screams summer like picking and eating fresh berries. I know I’m not alone. Greg Visscher, head of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Young Republicans Club, has been picking berries with his family for years. So it was with some degree of surprise that Visscher found himself confronted last month by a […]
Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police
August 12th, 2015The countries that run ECHELON, the largest civilian communications surveillance program in the world, have developed unified standards for biometric identification. See how this might look in the future by looking at Iraq. That’s the beta testing phase for what’s in store for the rest of us. —Cryptogon, 2007 Via: New York Times: Facial recognition […]
