Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Music Videos Prepping the Kids… For What?
October 21st, 2008I don’t know what to make of these videos. They’re produced by the Megacorp media mills Time Warner and Universal. My best guess is that watching revolution on screens is somehow supposed to make the viewers feel as though they’re participating in revolution, as they sit on their asses. Just keep sitting there… I don’t […]
Orwellian U.K. Angers People With Tree Cameras, Snooping Kids
October 10th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Hidden in foliage next to a path in the southeast England seaside town of Hastings are digital cameras. Their target: litterbugs and dog walkers. The electronic eyes feed images to a monitoring unit, where they’re scanned and stored as evidence to prosecute people who discard garbage or fail to clean up after pets, […]
Proud American
October 6th, 2008I’ve never smoked crack before, but I’d guess that watching Proud American would produce similar effects. Nope, it’s not Idiocracy 2, but it is “Presented by CocaCola, MasterCard, American Airlines and WalMart.” Research Credit: JF
New Homeland Security Magic 8 Ball Removes Terrorists Fast! Now with 100% More WTF?
September 24th, 2008“Sorry, officer, I’ve been reading Cryptogon for so many years I thought the twitching would have stopped by now.” Via: Fox News: Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or […]
U.S. Schools Pay Classroom Informants
September 21st, 2008Via: BBC: When police armed response units pulled up at Scripps Ranch High School, it was bad news for the teenage boy carrying a replica machine gun around campus. For the student who tipped off the police, though, things were looking up. Under an incentive scheme at Scripps Ranch, a large San Diego high school, […]
Homeland Security Wants to X-Ray Your Car… With You in It
September 17th, 2008Via: USA Today: A controversial new X-ray technology is being tested that could stop potential terrorists from blowing up a car bomb at one of the nation’s airports, homeland security officials say. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is running a test at a North Carolina ferry terminal of a 21-foot-high arch-like machine that shoots low-intensity […]
Britain: Council Authorities Question Adults About Their Motivation for Visiting Parks
September 13th, 2008Double plus authoritarian madness. Via: Telegraph: People out for a stroll or to walk their dog face being quizzed about their motives for being there and placed under suspicion of being a paedophile. Senior officials at Telford and Wreckin Council said the policy was to protect children and the vulnerable, and they would only stop […]
Army, Sears Partner for 1st Infantry Division Clothing Line
September 10th, 2008Can’t you just see little Johnny now? Proudly dressed in his 1st ID gear, full of Ritalin and breakfast stick, all ready to kill for Jesus. Alas, he’s too young to join the military, but not too young to play America’s Army, the U.S. Army’s social engineering and surveillance tool for kids… Hmm. Will Sears […]
UK: Shoppers to Use Fingerprints or Eye Scans to Pay for Goods
September 10th, 2008Mmm hmm. The clean, green ziggurat will have everything under control. Get your retina scanned to gain access to the free speech zone? Via: Telegraph: The futuristic systems, like those used by Tom Cruise in the science fiction film Minority Report, are being developed by scientists for Barclaycard. The company has announced it is investing […]
Taxpayers Take on Trillions in Risk in Fannie, Freddie Takeover
September 9th, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I don’t use fundamental analysis to trade, but I’ve been looking at the FOREX charts and I really started to wonder, “How is the dollar continuing to run higher?” I think one possible answer must be that, with the Fannie/Freddie bailout, […]
