Archive for the 'Technology' Category
CIPAV: FBI Spyware
May 1st, 2011Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: What is CIPAV and How Does It Work? The documents discuss technology that, when installed on a target’s computer, allows the FBI to collect the following information: IP Address Media Access Control (MAC) address “Browser environment variables” Open communication ports List of the programs running Operating system type, version, and serial […]
Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989
April 29th, 2011I don’t know how old you were in 1981, but I was ten when I was spending my allowance getting high score on Defender. —The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens If you want to know if this is me, no, but the hair is about right. Flickr: Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989
Life in Touchscreen Hell?
April 29th, 2011Related: The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Research Credit: BC
Data from TomTom Navigation Devices Used by Dutch Police to Set Speed Traps
April 28th, 2011Via: Guardian: Dutch drivers might have wondered how it was that speed traps were always in just the right place to catch speeders. It turned out to be simple enough: if they owned a TomTom, their in-car satnav was spying on them, and the aggregated data about cars’ speed was being sold via the government […]
U.S. Air Force Wants Miniature Drone to Covertly Drop Tracking Dust Onto People
April 28th, 2011Via: Wired: Here’s how the U.S. Air Force wants to hunt the next generation of its enemies: A tiny drone sneaks up to a suspect, paints him with an unnoticed powder or goo that allows American forces to follow him everywhere he goes — until they train a missile on him. On Tuesday, the Air […]
No Prosecution Seen for Official in NSA Leak
April 27th, 2011It’s better if as little attention as possible is directed at the NSA’s mass communications intercept program targeting Americans. Via: New York Times: A former Justice Department official who told Newsweek that he was one of the sources for a 2005 article in The New York Times about the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping […]
Microsoft Collects Locations of Windows Phone Users
April 27th, 2011Via: Cnet: Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. Windows Phone 7, supported by manufacturers including Dell, HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung, transmits to Microsoft a miniature data dump including a unique device ID, details about nearby Wi-Fi networks, and the phone’s GPS-derived […]
Kings Point, New York: ‘The Most Extensive Municipal Surveillance System In The United States’
April 26th, 2011Via: CBS: The wealthy Long Island village is planning an extensive network of security cameras that scan license plates to help reduce the number of property and home invasion crimes. The 3.3-square mile North Shore community is home to 5,000 residents. The plan calls for 44 cameras to eventually be installed at the village’s 19 […]
Los Alamos National Laboratory Scientists Develop Inexpensive Catalysts for Fuel Cells
April 26th, 2011Read this one within the context of Daniel Nocera’s artificial leaf technology. Via: Science Daily: Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a way to avoid the use of expensive platinum in hydrogen fuel cells, the environmentally friendly devices that might replace current power sources in everything from personal data devices to automobiles. … Polymer-electrolyte […]
4 Years of Factor e Farm in 4 Minutes
April 25th, 20114 Years of Factor e Farm in 4 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. More: TED: Marcin Jakubowski: Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization opensourceecology.org Research Credit: applecidervinegar
