Archive for the 'Technology' Category
To Improve Today’s Concrete, Do As The Romans Did
June 9th, 2013Via: UC Berkeley: In a quest to make concrete more durable and sustainable, an international team of geologists and engineers has found inspiration in the ancient Romans, whose massive concrete structures have withstood the elements for more than 2,000 years. The researchers’ findings are described in two papers, one that was posted online May 28 […]
Greenwald Apparently Has Some Technical Details of NSA Intercept Operations but Won’t Publish Them
June 9th, 2013If Greenwald has this, others must as well. It’ll have to be pretty good to top Klein’s revelations from 2007. Via: Twitter: @buffalopundit @green_footballs The highly detailed NSA technical materials on how they eavesdrop, that I have & am not publishing. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 8, 2013
Boundless Informant
June 9th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications. The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless […]
GCHQ Also Accesses PRISM
June 7th, 2013It’s probably not just the U.S. and Britain. See Five Eyes, which also includes Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Via: Guardian: The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America’s top spy agency, documents obtained by […]
NSA Whistle-Blower: “Now We Are All Persons of Interest”
June 7th, 2013Via: Salon: For Thomas Drake, the former National Security Agency employee who blew the whistle on the agency’s expansive post-9/11 surveillance programs in 2006, the latest revelation of blanket surveillance is simply “déjà vu.” Drake, who was indicted under the Espionage Act and faced life in prison before federal charges against him were eventually dropped, […]
NSA Building $860 Million Data Center in Maryland
June 7th, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: As its current data collection makes headlines, the National Security Agency is continuing to expand its data storage and processing capabilities. The agency recently broke ground on an $860 million data center at Fort Meade, Maryland that will span more than 600,000 square feet, including 70,000 square feet of technical space. […]
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook
June 7th, 2013*snore* Why is the media losing its mind over this now? Thanks to Mark Klein, we learned way back in 2007 that NSA was getting everything. Update: And Now… Customer Records from the Three Major Phone Networks, Emails, Web searches, and Credit-Card Transactions Via: Wall Street Journal: The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes […]
Robo-Raven
June 6th, 2013Via: Military.com: A robotic bird created by Army and University of Maryland researchers is tricking real flocks — and hawks — midair, making it a potential unsuspecting future war agent. Robo-Raven glides, soars and flaps like a real bird. Complete individual wing control allows for extreme aerobatics that no other mechanical bird has ever been […]
Court Documents: NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans Daily
June 6th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give […]
High-School Teen Builds One-Man Submarine for $2,000
June 5th, 2013That roll of duct tape on the third gallery image… Thumbs up to that, brother. Via: CNN: The submarine’s body may be constructed from drainage pipes and the hatch from a recycled skylight, but according to its 18-year-old inventor, this single-person U-boat can plunge to a depth of 30 feet and has already completed three […]
