Archive for the 'Technology' Category
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September 28th, 2010Churning Swindles on Garbage Stocks
September 27th, 2010Via: Reuters: Some traders are manipulating U.S. stocks that are worth less than $1 by taking both sides of trades in order to earn big rebates, according to an official at Knight Capital Group Inc. … At issue is whether an individual trader is using separate brokerage accounts to trade against himself, something known as […]
U.S. Government Wants All Providers of Encrypted Internet Services to Implement Key Escrow
September 27th, 2010Wikipedia has an entry on key escrow, if you aren’t familiar with the concept. Via: New York Times: Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of […]
Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded by May
September 24th, 2010Via: Wired: Scanning prisoners’ irises is just Step 1. In Afghanistan, local and NATO forces are amassing biometric dossiers on hundreds of thousands of cops, crooks, soldiers, insurgents and ordinary citizens. And now, with NATO’s backing, the Kabul government is putting together a plan to issue biometrically backed identification cards to 1.65 million Afghans by […]
CIA Used Defective Software to Task Drones on Assassination Missions
September 24th, 2010Via: Register: The CIA is implicated in a court case in which it’s claimed it used an illegal, inaccurate software “hack” to direct secret assassination drones in central Asia. The target of the court action is Netezza, the data warehousing firm that IBM bid $1.7bn for on Monday. The case raises serious questions about the […]
Stuxnet Worm
September 22nd, 2010Update: Worm Hits Computers of Staff at Iran Nuclear Plant Via: AP: A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran’s first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday. The project manager at […]
U.S. Hunters Shoot Down Google Fiber
September 21st, 2010Via: IT News: Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground. The search and advertising giant’s network engineering manager Vijay Gill told the AusNOG conference in Sydney last week that people were trying to hit insulators […]
Street View: Thousands of Germans Ask Google to Blur Their Homes
September 20th, 2010Via: Spiegel: Germans are amongst the most frequent users of Google’s Street View service, but that doesn’t mean they want pictures of their homes on the Internet. At least 100,000, and possibly a lot more, have registered online to have their homes made unrecognizable. Germans may have a reputation for staring at people, but they […]
Refusing Full Body X-Ray Scans at the Airport
September 20th, 2010A Cryptogon reader writes about refusing the new x-ray scans: [Name Deleted] just got back from a business trip to [City] and he said this was the first time he was requested to go through an airport’s whole body imaging scanner. He declined. The TSA person asked if he had a pacemaker, and he said […]
SMU and DARPA: Fiber Optic Interface to Link Robotic Limbs, Human Brain
September 19th, 2010Via: SMU: Lightning-fast connections between robotic limbs and the human brain may be within reach for injured soldiers and other amputees with the establishment of a multimillion-dollar research center led by SMU engineers. Funded by a Department of Defense initiative dedicated to audacious challenges and intense time schedules, the Neurophotonics Research Center will develop two-way […]
