Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
“We’re Looking Out For You”
June 11th, 2013Via: CBS: The shorthanded Antioch Police Department is enlisting the help of local garbage collectors and letter carriers tospot crime on city streets. Employees of the local trash collector, Republic Services Inc., as well as U.S. Postal Service employees have been given tips on how to act as effective witnesses to crimes. The program, dubbed […]
Disney’s Electronic Wristband Illustrates Why Big Companies Push Contactless Wallets
June 4th, 2013Via: MIT Technology Review: Disney just announced an electronic wristband for visitors to its theme parks that neatly illustrates why companies like Google and cellphone networks are pushing the idea of using contactless technology in phones for payments, tickets, boarding passes and more. The short answer? They want data. Disney’s MagicBand, an ID tag that […]
British Nutrition Foundation Student Survey
June 4th, 2013Via: BBC: Almost a third of UK primary pupils think cheese is made from plants and a quarter think fish fingers come from chicken or pigs, suggests a survey. Nearly one in 10 secondary pupils thinks tomatoes grow under ground, according to the poll for the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF). Some 27,500 five-to-16-year-olds were questioned […]
Schools Scanned Students’ Irises Without Permission
May 31st, 2013Via: Russia Today: Parents in Polk County, Florida are outraged after learning that students in area schools had their irises scanned as part of a new security program without obtaining proper permission. Students at three facilities — an elementary school, a grade school and a high school — had their eyeballs scanned earlier this month […]
Pentagon’s Latest Weapon in Colombian Drug War? Soap Operas
May 29th, 2013Via: Wired: The U.S. Army is introducing a new weapon in its fight to get Colombia’s guerrillas to put down their guns: the soap opera. That’s the gist of a recent Army request for proposals, which describes the building blocks of an anti-guerrilla propaganda campaign in Colombia. According to the request, the Army wants a […]
High School Teacher Disciplined for Reminding Students About The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Before Taking Behavioral Survey
May 28th, 2013Via: Daily Herald: A Batavia High School teacher’s fans are rallying to support him as he faces possible discipline for advising students of their Constitutional rights before taking a school survey on their behavior. They’ve been collecting signatures on an online petition, passing the word on Facebook, sending letters to the school board, and planning […]
Bill Drafted In Secret Would Block Release Of Some Newtown Massacre Records
May 22nd, 2013Via: Hartford Courant: The staffs of the state’s top prosecutor and the governor’s office have been working in secret with General Assembly leaders on legislation to withhold records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre — including victims’ photos, tapes of 911 calls, and possibly more.
And Now: ‘1 In 5 U.S. Children May Have Mental Disorder’
May 19th, 2013In other news: “ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” Via: CBS: Nearly 1 in 5 children in the U.S. suffers from a mental disorder, and this number has been rising for more than a decade. According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 20 percent […]
Dear Class of ’13: You’ve Been Scammed
May 18th, 2013Via: MarketWatch: You sit here today, $30,000 or $40,000 in debt, as the latest victims of what may well be the biggest conspiracy in U.S. history. It is a conspiracy so big and powerful that Dan Brown won’t even touch it. It’s a conspiracy so insidious that you will rarely hear its name. Move over, […]
Screen Zombie Students
May 8th, 2013Via: Slate: Concern about young people’s use of technology is nothing new, of course. But Rosen’s study, published in the May issue of Computers in Human Behavior, is part of a growing body of research focused on a very particular use of technology: media multitasking while learning. Attending to multiple streams of information and entertainment […]
