Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Britain: Children Reaching Age 3 Without Being Able to Say a Word
January 4th, 2010The piece says that television isn’t a factor, but keep this USA Today article in mind: A study released Monday adds to the debate over whether television impairs children’s language development. It found that parents and children virtually stop talking to each other when the TV is on, even if they’re in the same room. […]
National Irish Bank Moves to Cashless Banking (Not The Onion)
December 29th, 2009What if you want more cash than whatever pissant amount they allow you to remove from the ATM each day? Oh, I almost forgot, only criminals need that much cash. Via: Irish Times: IT MIGHT sound like a contradiction in terms, but for the first time one of the main Irish consumer banks is moving […]
“I don’t understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list.”
December 27th, 2009More: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport: A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked […]
Are Americans a Broken People?
December 16th, 2009In general, Americans represent a collective battered spouse who hopes that the batterer will change. Spitting teeth and squinting through two black eyes, they usually go back for more of the same. This isn’t politics. It’s pathology. —The Devil and Mr. Obama Via: Alternet: Can people become so broken that truths of how they are […]
Move to National ID Cards Delayed
December 16th, 2009Helpful map shows states that passed anti RealID legislation (Orange): Via: Wired: The United States’ quest for a national identification database associated with driver’s licenses won’t be finished by year’s end. The deadline was Dec. 31 for the states to create what would be the largest identification database of its kind under the auspices of […]
U.S. Government Funding Research Into “Malintent” Detector
December 10th, 2009Future Attribute Screening Technologies: Magic 8 Ball Arts and Crafts, taken to the nth degree of absurdity and rolled up in a police state shit sandwich. Now with 25% more Grant Swindle! Enjoy your flight. Via: Alternet: This past February, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a one-year, $2.6 million grant to the Cambridge, […]
U.S. Transportation Security Administration Unredacted Manual for Flight and Other Screening Procedures
December 9th, 2009Via: Wikileaks: US Transportation Security Administration unredacted manual for flight and other screening procedures. This TSA manual was released by the TSA in an incompetantly redacted form—cut and paste the blacked out regions revealed the redacted text. The previously redacted regions were highlighed and sent to the New York based anti-secrecy site Cryptome.org. The TSA […]
State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples
December 2nd, 2009Via: KXAN: When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit. Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children. Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law […]
Germany: Prosecutor to Homeschoolers: No Compromise—You’re Going to Jail
November 27th, 2009Via HSLDA: Juergen and Rosemary Dudek of Archfeldt, Germany, were sentenced to 90 days in prison in July 2008 because they homeschool their children. Their sentence was overturned by an appeals court because of a legal error, and a new trial was ordered. Their new trial began November 16. German news reports indicate the judge […]
VeriChip Buys Steel Vault, Creating Micro-Implant Health Record/Credit Score Empire
November 22nd, 2009Via: Bnet: VeriChip (CHIP), the company that markets a microchip implant that links to your online health records, has acquired Steel Vault (SVUL), a credit monitoring and anti-identity theft company. The combined company will operate under a new name: PositiveID. The all-stock transaction will leave PositiveID in charge of a burgeoning empire of identity, health […]
