Archive for the 'Technology' Category
14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies
July 10th, 2012Via: Blacklisted News: Most of us don’t think much about it, but the truth is that people are being watched, tracked and monitored more today than at any other time in human history. The explosive growth of technology in recent years has given governments, spy agencies and big corporations monitoring tools that the despots and […]
Air Force Trains Drone Pilots by Tracking Civilian Cars in U.S.
July 8th, 2012Via: New York Times: Today many of the pilots at Holloman never get off the ground. The base has been converted into the U.S. Air Force’s primary training center for drone operators, where pilots spend their days in sand-colored trailers near a runway from which their planes take off without them. Inside each trailer, a […]
Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles
July 7th, 2012Via: Wired: On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during a test organized by the Department of Homeland Security. The drone, an Adaptive Flight Hornet Mini, was hovering at around 60 feet, locked […]
The British Airways ‘Know Me’ System
July 7th, 2012Via: Telegraph: British Airways staff will be able to identify customers by using a new computer system that searches Google to find images of them. Cabin crew and staff at check–in desks and first–class lounges will be equipped with technology to help them meet and greet selected travellers. The aim is to give the airline […]
Swarms of Maple Seed Drones
July 6th, 2012Via: Talking Points Memo: Imagine a cheap, tiny, hovering aerial drone capable of being launched with the flick of a person’s wrist and able to provide manipulable 360-degree surveillance views. It’s real, it’s inspired by maple seeds, and the company behind it, Lockheed Martin, envisions a future in which swarms of the new drones can […]
Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF’s Lawsuit Over Government’s Massive Spying Program
July 5th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: San Francisco – Three whistleblowers – all former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) – have come forward to give evidence in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) lawsuit against the government’s illegal mass surveillance program, Jewel v. NSA. In a motion filed today, the three former intelligence analysts confirm that […]
Women Could Delay Menopause Indefinitely with Ovary Transplant
July 5th, 2012Or, the women can have it all crowd could figure out that they’re on a hamster wheel designed by vampire states to extract taxes from them while their children suffer the consequences. Via: Telegraph: A technique to remove pieces of ovary, store it for decades and then replace it with delicate surgery could effectively put […]
Feds Look to Fight Leaks With ‘Fog of Disinformation’
July 4th, 2012Via: Danger Room: Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away. Computer scientists call it it “Fog Computing” — a play on today’s cloud computing craze. And in a recent paper for […]
ACLU-NJ Launches Smartphone App That Lets Users Secretly Record Police Stops
July 4th, 2012Via: CBS: New Jersey’s branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken its mission of policing the police to smartphones. The ACLU has released an app called “Police Tape” that lets users secretly record police stops. The ACLU’s Alexander Shalom said the app is easy to use. “There’s really only three buttons that the […]
France Considering Making Those Who Own A Computer Screen But No Television Pay Up
July 3rd, 2012Via: Guardian: The French government is considering extending the television licence fee to include computer screen owners to boost revenues for public-sector broadcasting operations, the culture minister said on Saturday. President François Hollande’s Socialist government aims to raise an extra €7.5bn (£6bn) this year through tax rises included in an amended budget bill to be […]
