Archive for the 'Technology' Category
New Jersey: Mobile Police Guard Towers
December 23rd, 2010Update: SkyWatch Manned Mobile Surveillance System —End Update—
U.S. Postal Service Vehicles to Carry Sensor Packages
December 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: The service’s thousands of delivery vehicles have only one purpose now: to transport mail. But what if they were fitted with sensors to collect and transmit information about weather or air pollutants? The trucks would go from being bulky tools of industrial-age communication to being on the cutting edge of 21st-century […]
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
Britain May Require ISPs to Block Internet Pornography by Default
December 20th, 2010I wonder how long it will take for other categories of sites to be added to this blacklist? Via: IT Pro Portal: The government has urged UK Internet service providers to block pornographic websites in order to help protect children. UK communications minister Ed Vaizey is expected to meet representatives from UK ISPs BT, TalkTalk […]
Cable Search: Full Text Search of Released Wikileaks State Department Documents
December 20th, 2010Cable Search is automatically adding documents as WikiLeaks makes them available. Via: cablesearch.org: CABLESEARCH is an attempt for an user friendly search engine of already published documents from Wikileaks. Research Credit: RB
We Briefly Interrupt the Rubber Hose Beatings…
December 17th, 2010Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment Context: The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.” Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski
Bill Would Require Government and Private Sector to Require Minimum Cybsersecurity Standards for Devices that Connect to the Internet
December 16th, 2010More specifically, we need to reengineer the Internet to make attribution, geolocation, intelligence analysis and impact assessment — who did it, from where, why and what was the result — more manageable. —Mike McConnell, VP Booz Allen Hamilton It’s like the man says at the blog below, “Here it comes.” Via: Economic Policy Journal: Sen. […]
YouTube Gives Users Ability To Flag Content That ‘Promotes Terrorism’
December 16th, 2010Via: Huffington Post: In response to concerns it’s become a means of radical promotion, YouTube has now added an option for flagging content that is terrorist in nature. When you flag a video as inappropriate, “promotes terrorism” now appears as an option under the “violent or repulsive content” category on the Google-owned website (see screenshot […]
U.S. Army to Issue Smartphones to All Soldiers
December 16th, 2010You’ll love this. Via: USA Today: The Army wants to issue every soldier an iPhone or Android cellphone — it could be a soldier’s choice. And to top it off, the Army wants to pay your monthly phone bill. To most soldiers, it sounds almost too good to be true, but it’s real, said Lt. […]
New Intel Core VPro Processors Can Be Remotely Disabled Over 3G Networks, Even When an OS Is Not Running
December 15th, 2010Via: PC World: Intel on Wednesday said it would release in the first quarter next year Core VPro processors for business desktops and laptops that incorporate a host of new security and management features. The new chips will come in dual-core and quad-core variants, and will be based on the company’s upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture, […]
