Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Cryptome Forced Down Over Microsoft Law Enforcement Surveillance Compliance Document
February 25th, 2010Update: Microsoft Withdraws DMCA Complaint Against Cryptome Via: cryptome.org: Subject: DN: www.cryptome.org; Registrar: Network Solutions; Host: Network Solutions – Demand for Immediate Take Down – Notice of Infringing Activity – MS Ref. 304277 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:22:59 -0500 From: “DMCA” To: “John Young” We would like to notify you that Microsoft has contacted […]
Please Rob Me
February 25th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: As more people reveal their whereabouts on social networks, a new site has sprung up to remind you that letting everyone know where you are – and, by extension, where you’re not – could leave you vulnerable to those with less-than-friendly intentions. The site’s name says it all: Please Rob Me. […]
Fur Really Flying Over Latest Telecom XT Outage
February 25th, 2010UPDATE: NOW EMERGENCY SYSTEM FAILS IN AUCKLAND Put a fork in it. Via: New Zealand Herald: Emergency services are experiencing difficulties with the 111 system, with some callers unable to reach police. Police said the problem appeared to be confined to the Auckland area, and Telecom was working on the problem. National Radio reported the […]
The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens
February 24th, 2010My ability to grasp what many people consider to be “normal” is slipping away, a little bit each day. I wonder if this is how my dad felt when, over a decade ago, I explained to him that I didn’t always need to go to the office in order to do my work. My dad […]
Law Enforcement is Tracking Americans’ Cell Phones in Real Time Without Warrants
February 23rd, 2010In summary, my thesis was that the NSA operation that Tice was involved with was related to tracking individual Americans, on the ground, in real time, using the mobile phone networks. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance If this is happening on an almost indiscriminate basis with law enforcement cases, how wide of a […]
Bloom Energy Fuel Cell
February 23rd, 2010Who’s on Bloom Energy’s board? Colin Powell. Via: CBS: Watch CBS News Videos Online In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public […]
The Digital Dictatorship
February 22nd, 2010If you pretend that the author is referring to the U.S. when he mentions countries like Iran and the former East Germany, this is much more informative. Via: Wall Street Journal: Since the publication of John Perry Barlow’s “Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” in 1996, they have been led to believe that cyberspace is […]
School Used Student Laptop Webcams to Spy on Them at School and Home
February 18th, 2010Via: BoingBoing: According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue […]
France Moves to Increase Internet Controls, Censorship of Websites
February 17th, 2010Via: Register: France yesterday put in its bid for an unlikely prize, becoming the first western country to make to make even Australia look liberal when it comes to state powers of internet censorship. In the teeth of fierce opposition both inside and outside parliament, the National Assembly approved, by 312 votes to 214 against, […]
Australian Government Asks Google to Censor YouTube
February 17th, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” (RC) content rules. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google’s censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship […]
