Archive for the 'Technology' Category
CISPA Bill To Obliterate Privacy Laws Under Guise of Cybersecurity, A Blank Check of Privacy Invasion
April 26th, 2012Via: Hot Hardware: There’s a bill currently up for debate in the US House of Representatives that would give companies and government agencies the right to share information when issues of cybersecurity were at stake. If the first thing you thought after reading that was “Wait, don’t we already do this,” the answer is “Yes, […]
Sci-fi Publisher Announces Tor and Forge Will Go DRM-Free with All E-Book Titles
April 26th, 2012Via: Tor: Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen, today announced that by early July 2012, their entire list of e-books will be available DRM-free. “Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and […]
FAA Releases Lists of Organizations Authorized to Operate Unmanned Aircraft in the U.S.
April 24th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finally released its first round of records in response to EFF’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for information on the agency’s drone authorization program. The agency says the two lists it released include the names of all public and private entities that have […]
U.S. to Penalize Authoritarian Regimes That Crack Down on Dissidents
April 24th, 2012Ah, ok. I suppose that the U.S. regime is going to get busy penalizing itself. Or not. U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border: Since the 2006 release of “My Country, My Country,” Poitras has left and re-entered the U.S. roughly 40 times. Virtually every time during that six-year-period that she has returned to the U.S., […]
Trojan Uses Motion Sensors To Steal Smartphone Data
April 23rd, 2012Via: TechWeek Europe: Motion-sensor data from smartphones can be used to effectively guess what keys a user is tapping and steal sensitive data such as PINs and bank details, according to new research (PDF) from Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and IBM. The researchers developed a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android called TapLogger that uses a “training […]
Wireless Industry Association Opposes Bill That Would Require Warrant For Them To Turn Data Over To Law Enforcement
April 23rd, 2012Via: TechDirt: You would think that it would be in the mobile operators’ best interest to protect their own customers’ privacy and to stand up for their basic rights. You would think, but apparently you’d be wrong. It appears that CTIA — the mobile operators’ industry association — is opposing an effort in California to […]
Startup Claims ‘Holy Grail’ of System on Chip Design
April 23rd, 2012Yikes. If this is real, it will definitely accelerate the grim trends in technology that you’ve been reading about on Cryptogon and lots of other places. Scum from Wall Street to Fort Meade will be frothing over this one. Via: EE Times: The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday (April 23), […]
Misinformation Campaign Targets USA TODAY Reporter, Editor
April 21st, 2012Via: USA Today: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to a propaganda campaign of sorts, waged on the Internet through a series of bogus websites. Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created in their names, along with a Wikipedia entry and dozens of message board postings […]
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
April 20th, 2012As of 2001, “Twenty terabytes a minute.” “You can build up knowledge about everyone in the country. And having that knowledge then allows them the ability to concoct all kinds of charges if they want to target you.” “The data that’s being assembled is about everybody. From that data then they can target anyone they […]
European Parliament Agrees to Send Airline Passenger Data to U.S.
April 20th, 2012Via: Computerworld UK: The European Parliament has approved the controversial data transfer agreement, the bilateral PNR (passenger name register), with the US which requires European airlines to pass on passenger information, including name, contact details, payment data, itinerary, email and phone numbers to the Department of Homeland Security. Under the new agreement, PNR data will […]
