Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Take Your Pick at the Airport: Full Body Scan or Patdown
February 18th, 2009Via: USA Today: For the first time, some airline passengers will skip metal detectors and instead be screened by body scanning machines that look through clothing for hidden weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday. An experimental program that begins today at Tulsa International Airport will test whether the $170,000 body scanners could replace $10,000 […]
UK: Former Head of MI5 Accused Government of Exploiting Fear of Terrorism; Trying to Restrict Civil Liberties
February 17th, 2009Via: BBC: A former head of MI5 has accused the government of exploiting the fear of terrorism and trying to bring in laws that restrict civil liberties. In an interview in a Spanish newspaper, published in the Daily Telegraph, Dame Stella Rimington, 73, also accuses the US of “tortures”. The Home Office said it was […]
Satire: The Latest from Sony
February 10th, 2009Warning: Contains naughty words. Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
UK Environment Czar Looking at Limiting Holiday Trips to Save CO2
February 10th, 2009Escape the UK by any means necessary. Just flee, while you still can. Save up your fart credits, your collapsing pounds, get tracked, traced, scanned, probed and recorded—do whatever is necessary—and run for your life. Via: ATW Daily News: The UK’s so-called “environment czar” last week raised the possibility of rationing air travel, limiting UK […]
And Now… The Terrorist White List
February 9th, 2009Via: Wired: The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway. The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million names of suspected terrorists that is crosschecked with passenger names ahead of […]
The Globalisation of Addiction
February 2nd, 2009Every once in a while, Reddit redeems itself. Via: Nthposition: Bruce Alexander is best known – though deserves to be much better known – for the ‘Rat Park’ experiments he conducted in 1981. As an addiction psychologist, much of the data with which he worked was drawn from laboratory trials with rats and monkeys: the […]
When You Watch These Ads, They Watch You
January 31st, 2009Via: AP: Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there’s a slim — but growing — chance the ad is watching you too. Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. […]
‘Soviet’ Britain Swells Amid the Recession
January 31st, 2009Yes, Minister – Empty Hospital. Via: Times Online: PARTS of the United Kingdom have become so heavily dependent on government spending that the private sector is generating less than a third of the regional economy, a new analysis has found. The study of “Soviet Britain” has found the government’s share of output and expenditure has […]
Humans ‘Will be Implanted with Microchips’
January 31st, 2009Via: NineMSN: All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says. Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance. “Uberveillance is not on […]
U.S. Central Command Visits Cryptogon
January 29th, 2009The U.S. Central Command user (host: army64-7.cfc-a.centcom.mil, ip: 214.13.64.7) conducted the following Google search: changing images of man. The CENTCOM user visited the following Cryptogon page: Changing Images of Man.
