Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Britain Revives Surveillance Plan, Making Service Providers Responsible for Data Retention
October 21st, 2010Via: Telegraph: Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans. It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet. Moves to make every communications provider store […]
NSA’s Newest Recruiters: Cartoon-Leopard Twins
October 20th, 2010Via: Wired: Dudes and dudettes: You know what’s totally radical? Reading your neighbors’ e-mail! So don’t you wanna be a junior National Security Agency deputy? If so, the surveillance and cryptology crew at NSA has the right online companions for you: Cy and Cyndi, a pair of anthropomorphic snow leopards now kickin’ it with the […]
Robotic Privacy Curtain
October 20th, 2010*har*
Toddlers’ Favorite Toy: The iPhone
October 20th, 2010Via: New York Times: THE bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out to his father, and uttered what is fast becoming the cry of his generation: “iPhone!” The iPhone has revolutionized […]
WikiLeaks Insurance File
October 20th, 2010WikiLeaks sent this over Twitter: Now is a good time to mirror this WikiLeaks ‘insurance’ backup http://bit.ly/bRaiYF
Satellites Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan
October 18th, 2010Via: Wired: Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of oil tankers and supply trucks, some parked in a dry riverbed, waiting to cross the Torkham border pass into Afghanistan.
“Brooklyn Space Program” Sends Video Camera to Upper Stratosphere with Weather Balloon, Recoverd “Craft” with Help from GPS
October 18th, 2010I don’t have a “dad blog,” so this kind of post is bound to happen occasionally. Many stories that I’ve read about this incorrectly state that the iPhone was shooting the video. If you read through the comments on Vimeo, Luke Geissbühler let’s everyone know that the camera is the incredible GoPro HD HERO. Via: […]
Department of Homeland Security’s “Social Networking Monitoring Center”
October 14th, 2010Via: EFF: Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent […]
DARPA Wants Automated Counterintelligence Magic 8 Ball
October 13th, 2010Via: DARPA Solicitation: Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS): Each time we see an incident like a soldier in good mental health becoming homicidal or suicidal or an innocent insider becoming malicious we wonder why we didn’t see it coming. When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail – […]
Google to Invest in Offshore Wind Power Project
October 12th, 2010Via: AP: Google is investing in an extensive network of deepwater transmission lines worth billions for future wind farms off the East Coast, the company said Tuesday. The transmission lines, which could cost up to $5 billion over the next 10 years, would run as far as 20 miles offshore from Virginia to New Jersey. […]
