Archive for the 'Technology' Category
America’s Secret Terrorist Watchlist Exposed on the Web Without a Password
August 19th, 2021Via: Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko: On July 19, 2021 I discovered a terrorist watchlist containing 1.9 million records online without a password or any other authentication required to access it. The watchlist came from the Terrorist Screening Center, a multi-agency group administered by the FBI. The TSC maintains the country’s no-fly list, which is a subset […]
Vaccine Passports for Interstate Travel? “Too Polarizing for the Moment”
August 13th, 2021Via: AP: Still, while more severe measures — such as mandating vaccines for interstate travel or changing how the federal government reimburses treatment for those who are unvaccinated and become ill with COVID-19 — have been discussed, the administration worried that they would be too polarizing for the moment. That’s not to say they won’t […]
Covid-19 “Vaccine” Passports Come Into Effect in France
August 11th, 2021Game Over. Via: Telegraph:
NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Contract to Amazon
August 10th, 2021Via: Nextgov: The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services, Nextgov has learned. The contract is already being challenged. Tech giant Microsoft filed a bid protest on July 21 with the Government Accountability Office two weeks after being notified by the NSA that […]
Infrastructure Bill Could Enable Government to Track Drivers’ Travel Data
August 10th, 2021“I think I’ll head to the store to pick up a few things.” And then… Via: The Intercept: The Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill proposes a national test program that would allow the government to collect drivers’ data in order to charge them per-mile travel fees. The new revenue would help finance the Highway […]
Tesla Claims 92% Battery Cell Material Recovery in New Recycling Process
August 9th, 2021Via: Electrek: Tesla released more details about its effort to deploy large-scale battery recycling, and it claims that it can recover about 92% of battery cell materials with its recycling process.
‘Tortured Phrases’ Give Away Fabricated Research Papers
August 8th, 2021Long ago, my wife had a student who wrote, “Auspicious lizard,” when she was actually trying to express, “Lucky dragon.” Anytime we come across tortured phrases we mention the famous, “Auspicious lizard.” Via: Nature: In April 2021, a series of strange phrases in journal articles piqued the interest of a group of computer scientists. The […]
Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
August 6th, 2021Via: EFF: Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you know what this means: Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system. Child exploitation is […]
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
August 2nd, 2021“Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha” And now… Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) use Starlink. I went looking for how they are using Starlink and couldn’t find much, except this gibberish on an Air Force press release. I bolded the parts that might relate to Starlink: In addition to […]
Military-Funded Research Looks for Secret to GPS-Free Navigation in a Bird’s Eye
July 30th, 2021Via: Army Times: Military-funded scientists have isolated a protein present in the eye of a migratory bird that may explain how our feathered friends travel vast distances without a map — and how future soldiers might use that ability to fight without GPS. … By analyzing the migratory European robin, researchers isolated a protein in […]
