Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
AIRprint Device Reads Fingerprints from Two Meters Away
January 20th, 2011Via: Technology Review: Over the years, fingerprinting has evolved from an inky mess to pressing fingers on sensor screens to even a few touch-free systems that work at a short distance. Now a company has developed a prototype of a device that can scan fingerprints from up to two meters away, an approach that could […]
Not The Onion: NSA Turns to Smart Phones for Recruitment
January 19th, 2011Via: Defense Systems: Having a smart phone may give you an advantage if you’re looking for a job with the National Security Agency. The agency on Jan. 13 announced the launch of two new smartphone applications that are part of NSA’s largest hiring effort in recent years. The NSA Career Links Smartphone application—which is available […]
Mom Accused of Playing Game on Facebook While Baby Drowned
January 19th, 2011Via: Reuters: A Colorado mother who told police her 13-month-old son drowned in the bathtub while she was playing a game on Facebook was charged on Friday with child abuse resulting in death. Shannon Johnson, 34, was advised of the charge against her via a video hookup from the jail where she is being held […]
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
January 16th, 2011Please click through and read the whole thing. Via: The Atlantic: Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. […]
Mitre/JASONs Advise Pentagon to Collect DNA and Complete Human Genome Sequences for All Military Personnel
January 14th, 201123andme.mil? Don’t laugh. Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, was one of the briefers on this. As you may or may not know, Wojcicki is married to Google’s Sergey Brin. I don’t know what’s more terrifying to consider: What the military is going to do with this, or what Google is going to do with this. […]
Derren Brown Controls Shopping Mall Visitors
January 13th, 2011I wanted to believe that this wasn’t real; that it was just a stunt for television, with paid actors, etc. I know a bit about hypnosis, but I had pretty serious doubts about this one. So, is this real, or not? Surely, it’s not, right? I emailed Tony Rodriguez, a friend of mine who happens […]
CIA Asset Susan Lindauer Blows the Whistle on 9/11, Iraq
January 10th, 2011Via: Truth Jihad: Susan Lindauer, author of Extreme Prejudice, is the first CIA asset to have spoken out, under her own name and for the record, on Israeli complicity in 9/11, the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and the specific, detailed foreknowledge of the time, target, and means of the 9/11 attacks held […]
The Uncomfortable Truth About Mind Control: Is Free Will Simply a Myth?
January 10th, 2011Decades old, basic information, but just in case… Via: Independent: We have vain brains; we see ourselves as better than we really are. We like to think that we exercise free will, that put into a situation where we were challenged to do something we thought unacceptable then we’d refuse. But, if you believe that, […]
Georgia Man Fined for Growing Vegetables
January 10th, 2011Via: Eat Drink Better: An Atlanta-area man is facing fines of up to $5000 for growing too many vegetables on his land. Steve Miller (not Steve Miller of classic rock fame), has had an organic vegetable garden on his property for years. He grows food for himself and has even sold some of his bounty […]
How the U.S. Let al-Qaida Get Its Hands On an Iraqi Weapons Factory
January 8th, 2011This piece makes absolutely perfect sense, as long as you know that al-Qaida is run by CIA, and that one of the main objectives in any U.S. led war is to keep it going for as long as possible. My guess is that this operation was a top to bottom CIA production, maybe using some […]
