Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
DHS Red Teams Get Weapons and Explosives Through Airport Security Checkpoints 95% of Time
June 2nd, 2015What are they getting us ready for here? Via: ABC: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, ABC News has learned. The series of tests […]
Britain: Primary Pupils Asked to Complete Surveys About Radicalization
May 29th, 2015Via: Guardian: Parents of children as young as nine have reacted angrily after schools in an east London borough asked pupils to complete surveys designed to provide clues to possible radicalisation. Waltham Forest council has been piloting the scheme in five primary schools with large Muslim intakes. The questionnaire, circulated among year 6 pupils, asks […]
Teachers Using Pens and Paper in the Classroom “Not Fair” to Students, Microsoft Official Says
May 20th, 2015In other news, Microsoft Study Shows that Technology Is Shortening Attention Spans. Via: The Georgia Straight: Pens and paper have no place in the modern classroom. And chalkboards? They should be banished from our schools too. That’s what Lia De Cicco Remu, director of Partners in Learning at Microsoft Canada, told the Georgia Straight ahead […]
The Supreme Court Stole Your Right to Check the Feds Power
April 27th, 2015Via: The Truth About the Law: What do you call a situation where the law is ignored? Tyranny. What about where the law is turned on its head? Fraud. What about where the government steals the rights of the people to expand its own powers? Corruption. … And so is your “right to petition the […]
China: Social Credit System
April 27th, 2015Via: de Volkskrant: The Chinese government is currently implementing a nationwide electronic system, called the Social Credit System, attributing to each of its 1,3 billion citizens a score for his or her behavior. The system will be based on various criteria, ranging from financial credibility and criminal record to social media behavior. From 2020 onwards […]
Toddlers Using Tablets Before They Can Talk
April 27th, 2015Related: Why Can’t We Read Anymore? Via: New Zealand Herald: More than a third of American babies are tapping on smartphones and tablets even before they’re walking or talking, according to a new study. And by their first birthday, one in seven infants is using devices for at least an hour a day. The results […]
Cal Poly Pomona: Students Must Obtain Permits to Distribute Material in Tiny “Free Speech Zone”
April 6th, 2015Via: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: College student Nicolas Tomas filed a First Amendment lawsuit today against California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, with assistance from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). The lawsuit targets university policies that restrict where, when, and how students can exercise their free speech rights. The lawsuit alleges […]
Technology and Persuasion
March 23rd, 2015Via: MIT Technology Review: The idea that computers, mobile phones, websites, and other technologies could be designed to influence people’s behavior and even attitudes dates back to the early 1990s, when Stanford professor B.?J. Fogg coined the term “persuasive computing” (later broadened to “persuasive technology”). But today many companies have taken that one step further: […]
Canada: False Flag Operations and Cyberwar
March 23rd, 2015Via: First Look: According to the Snowden documents, it has a range of “deception techniques” in its toolbox. These include “false flag” operations to “create unrest,” and using so-called “effects” operations to “alter adversary perception.” A false-flag operation usually means carrying out an attack, but making it look like it was performed by another group […]
Bill Gates Warns on Future Disease Epidemic
March 19th, 2015Flashback 2011: Via: BBC: The world needs to prepare for the next major health crisis, Bill Gates has told delegates at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference. While Ebola seems to be being kept under control currently, next time “we may not be so lucky” the Microsoft co-founder warned. He said that there were […]
