Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Royal Dutch Shell: Massive Data Leak
February 15th, 2010Via: ComputerWorldUK: The security measures at Royal Dutch Shell are under close scrutiny after the details of 176,000 employees and contractors were emailed to campaigners. Shell has been the target of extensive campaigning, particularly over its operations in Nigeria. Last year it reached a $15 million out of court settlement, over its alleged involvement in […]
Harvard-Educated Neurobiologist, Co-Inventor of Revolutionary Medical Research Device, Involved with Mass Shooting
February 13th, 2010Update: Amy Bishop Pleads Guilty in Alabama University Killings Via: BBC: A former US biologist has pleaded guilty to murdering three colleagues and wounding three others in a 2010 shooting rampage at a faculty meeting. Former University of Alabama at Huntsville scientist Amy Bishop, 47, had previously pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Bishop […]
Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
February 12th, 2010Tice said his information is different from the Terrorist Surveillance Program that Bush acknowledged in December and from news accounts this week that the NSA has been secretly collecting phone call records of millions of Americans. “It’s an angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” he said. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance For […]
Britain: Police UAVs Might be Armed with Non Lethal Weapons
February 11th, 2010Via: Wired: Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers, and will be in place in […]
Google as Experimental ISP; Will Offer One Gigabit Per Second Connections
February 11th, 2010Via: Google: We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive […]
Anonymous Takes Down Australian Parliament and Other Government Websites with Distributed Denial of Service Attack
February 10th, 2010Via: AFP: A shadowy group of cyber-activists blocked key Australian government websites on Wednesday to protest against controversial plans to filter the Internet. The main government website, www.australia.gov.au, and parliament’s www.aph.gov.au were both affected along with the sites for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. Web activists had earlier warned the sites […]
Family Spends $5000 Per Year on Screen Related Services
February 10th, 2010You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. —Morpheus, The Matrix Don’t breathe the air, don’t drink the water, don’t eat the food, but, being saturated with endless electronic […]
Trusted Platform Module Cracked
February 9th, 2010I’m not posting this because I think that it represents much of a threat to average computer users, but because Tarnovsky’s crack is astonishing. I’ve been around hardware hackers before and read the stories for years… But this one has to be close to taking the cake. Via: AP / ABC: Tarnovsky needed six months […]
Infowars and Prison Planet Not Available for Most Internet Users in New Zealand
February 8th, 2010Update: Infowars and Prison Planet Are Accessible Again The sites are loading normally now on Telecom NZ. —End Update— The New Zealand site infonews.co.nz reported that infowars.com and prisonplanet.com are mostly not accessible inside New Zealand. I can confirm that this is the case on Telecom New Zealand, the main provider of Internet access in […]
Priest Uses Fingerprint Reader to Monitor Mass Attendance
February 7th, 2010Via: Reuters: A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass, the Gazeta Wyborcza daily said on Friday. The pupils will mark their fingerprints every time they go to church over three years and if they attend 200 masses […]
