Archive for the 'Technology' Category
General Council of U.S. National Security Agency: Americans Are Tracked Via Mobile Phones
July 27th, 2011I’ve been waiting for them to make this one official for a long time. Related: Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Via: Wall Street Journal: Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.? According to the general counsel of the National Security Agency, […]
China: Maniac Fascist Regime Forces Anyone Who Offers Free Wi-Fi Internet Access to Purchase Monitoring Software That Costs $3,100
July 27th, 2011Via: New York Times: New regulations that require bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly Web monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut Internet access and sending a chill through the capital’s game-playing, Web-grazing literati who have come to expect free Wi-Fi with their lattes and green tea. The software, which costs businesses […]
Mozilla Is Making an Android-Based Mobile OS
July 26th, 2011Via: Gizmodo: Choice is a wonderful thing, but successful restaurants have smaller menus for a reason. If you’ve been grappling with making a decision on phone platforms as is, Mozilla’s about to chuck their hat into the ring with their Boot to Gecko mobile platform. … So where does Android fit into all of it? […]
Google Wasn’t Just Sniffing for Wi-Fi Base Stations
July 26th, 2011Via: Cnet: Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed. The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of […]
Cryptogon Android App
July 26th, 2011Despite all the posts on Cryptogon about smartphones acting as tracking devices, many of you use them anyway. So, how about a Cryptogon Android app? A Cryptogon reader has created one and it’s available for free at Static Wave Studio. Thanks, Dave! I had nothing to do with the creation of this application. That’s another […]
ACLU Lawyer on License Plate Scanners: “What Kind of a Society Are We Creating Here?”
July 21st, 2011Via: Boston Herald: Civil libertarians are raising the alarm over the state’s plans to create a Big Brother database that could map drivers’ whereabouts with police cruiser-mounted scanners that capture thousands of license plates per hour — storing that information indefinitely where local cops, staties, feds and prosecutors could access it as they choose. “What […]
Apple OS X Lion: ‘Apple borrows so heavily from iOS that at times, cycling through features makes the whole thing feel like you’re merely operating an iPad with a keyboard attached.’
July 21st, 2011All I see is a large iPod that serves as a tamperproof vending machine. —Apple’s iPad as Metaphor for The Nightmare Future of Computing If Apple has its way, and if the sales of its mobile devices carry on in the manner they have up until now, a post-PC outlook will even fit devices that […]
iPhone App Listens to Television Commercials
July 20th, 2011Definitely see the one about Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops before you read this. Via: AdAge: You’re sitting on the couch with the TV on and phone in hand. As a commercial starts, a smartphone app hears what you’re watching. It then serves up links, coupons or music downloads corresponding to what it hears […]
Problem, Reaction, Solution: Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops, “To Encourage Good Habits”
July 18th, 2011I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were […]
Location Intelligence by TruePosition: System for Tracking People via Mobile Devices
July 18th, 2011For years, I’ve been speculating that the secret sauce in Russell Tice’s, “Angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” is full time tracking of individuals via their mobile devices. My guess is that the capability is a key component of MAIN CORE: The U.S. Government has, almost certainly, established a database and tracking system for […]
