Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Wal-Mart Nominates Google Vice President to Board
April 17th, 2012Via: AP: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it nominated Google Inc. Vice President Marissa Mayer to its board of directors, a move that the discount retailer says will help it sell more products through mobile devices. Mayer, 36, is vice president of Google’s “local and maps” division, which means she oversees products and software […]
Department of Homeland Security: Special Response Team
April 13th, 2012The vehicles are right out of Team America: World Police. Via: HongPong: A relatively monstrous SWAT style truck leads us to a whole new blob of police state developments, busy hands with little to do and a lot of hardware to do it.
It’s The Tat That Brings Kids Back!®
April 12th, 2012Via: SafetyTat: It can happen anywhere—at an amusement park, zoo, school field trip, or even your local shopping mall. Your attention shifts for a moment, and suddenly your child or loved one has wandered out of sight. So put the odds in your favor for a safe return, with SafetyTat. Invented by a Baltimore Mom […]
‘Proposed ‘Natural Health Products Bill’ in New Zealand Would Fine Individuals $50,000 for Making a Cup of Unapproved Herbal Tea’
April 12th, 2012I tried to determine if one could theoretically wind up on the wrong side of this thing for producing, for example, one’s own chamomile tea. The following is from Natural Health Products Bill 324-1: Manufacture of natural health products 28 Licence to manufacture natural health products (1) A person must not manufacture a natural health […]
Royal Canadian Mint to Create Digital Currency
April 12th, 2012It’ll be anonymous, will it? So people will be using smartphones, which amount to the most awesome goddamned deployment of mass surveillance technologies in history, to anonymously buy and sell things? Don’t look at me. I just work here. Via: TheStar: The Royal Canadian Mint wants to get rid of pocket change — and it’s […]
Oh Sure: ‘This Internet Provider Pledges to Put Your Privacy First. Always.’
April 12th, 2012Alternate headline: Supposedly Privacy Focused ISP Has Former NSA Technical Director on Advisory Board. Have a nice day. Via: Cnet: Step aside, AT&T and Verizon. A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU’s dream and the FBI’s worst nightmare. Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online […]
TSA Employee Interviewed About Full Body X-Ray Machines, Lack of Training
April 11th, 2012The piece claims that she went to Congress with the information about what was happening and that she was fired days later. Via: TSA Out of Our Pants: My last video demonstrated how easy it is to take a metal object through TSA nude body scanners undetected. In this video, I interviewed an actual TSA […]
A New Microchip Knows Just Where You Are, Indoors and Out
April 10th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: Broadcom has just rolled out a chip for smart phones that promises to indicate location ultra-precisely, possibly within a few centimeters, vertically and horizontally, indoors and out. The unprecedented accuracy of the Broadcom 4752 chip results from the sheer breadth of sensors from which it can process information. It can receive […]
And Now… U.S. Military Plans for Alien Invasion
April 8th, 2012YouTube: Mirror 1, Mirror 2 Via: NineMSN: Video: Alien invasion Related: LEGO: Alien Conquest
Military Researchers Zapping Brains to Make Better Snipers
April 8th, 2012Better snipers? *pfft* You’ll need this technology to help you make sense of all the information on your Heads Up Display: Via: The Week: Over the past few years, however, it’s become increasingly clear that applying an electrical current to your head confers similar benefits. U.S. military researchers have had great success using “transcranial direct […]
