Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Digital Dementia
June 25th, 2013Digital crackpipes for the children! The younger the better. Via: Digital Journal: South Korean doctors have found that increasing use of smartphones among young Koreans has led to a surge in incidence of “digital dementia” characterized by deterioration of cognitive abilities and symptoms found in people who have suffered head injury. In Other News: Some […]
The Insider Threat Program
June 23rd, 2013Via: McClatchy: Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions. President Barack Obama’s unprecedented […]
70 Percent Of Americans On Prescription Drugs
June 20th, 2013Via: CBS: Researchers find that nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half receive at least two prescriptions. Mayo Clinic researchers report that antibiotics, antidepressants and painkiller opioids are the most common prescriptions given to Americans. Twenty percent of U.S. patients were also found to be on […]
China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
June 18th, 2013Via: New York Times: China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come. The government, often […]
Greenwald: ‘You have no idea what is coming’
June 16th, 2013The release of the documents without any censorship by the media? Information about NSA operations that we haven’t already known about for years? More pics of the pole dancing girlfriend? Via: Twitter: You have no idea what is coming; and I’m promoting the leaks, not myself
Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be
June 15th, 2013Update: Even AP Admits that Prism Is Chicken Feed Compared to What We Learned Years Ago About Mass Intercepts Via: AP: With Prism, the government gets a user’s entire email inbox. Every email, including contacts with American citizens, becomes government property. Once the NSA has an inbox, it can search its huge archives for information […]
Sesame Street Designs Online Kit for Kids Who Have Parents in Prison
June 14th, 2013Via: KSLA: With the highest incarceration rate in the world, nearly 2 million children in the U.S. have a parent behind bars. In response, Sesame Street has designed an online kit to help children deal with the emotional problems of having incarcerated parents. The kit is targeted towards children between 3 and 8 years of […]
Companies Scramble for Consumer Data; Don’t Have to Pay Much
June 13th, 2013Via: Financial Times: Corporate competition to accumulate information about consumers is intensifying even as concerns about government surveillance grow, pushing down the market price for intimate personal details to fractions of a cent. Over recent years, the surveillance of consumers has developed into a multibillion-dollar industry conducted by largely unregulated companies that obtain information by […]
Air Force Prohibiting Airmen from Reading NSA Scandal Stories
June 11th, 2013Via: Caffeinated Thoughts: I wanted to make sure that all of you read this because just doing a simple search could jeopardize your future. In summary, anything to do with the recent news about the NSA and Verizon phone records are considered classified and searching news or records about these on our NIPRNET computers is […]
Off-Duty Cops Collect DNA Samples at Alabama Roadblocks
June 11th, 2013You’ll love this one. Via: Daily Caller: Off-duty cops in two counties in Alabama spent the weekend collecting saliva and blood samples from drivers at roadblocks. According to Lt. Freddie Turrentine with the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, drivers were asked to voluntarily offer samples of their saliva and blood for a study being conducted […]
