Archive for the 'Technology' Category
U.S. Government Funding Research Into “Malintent” Detector
December 10th, 2009Future Attribute Screening Technologies: Magic 8 Ball Arts and Crafts, taken to the nth degree of absurdity and rolled up in a police state shit sandwich. Now with 25% more Grant Swindle! Enjoy your flight. Via: Alternet: This past February, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a one-year, $2.6 million grant to the Cambridge, […]
22 Stories Underground: Iron Mountain’s Experimental Room 48
December 9th, 2009Definitely DO NOT miss the image gallery that goes along with this story. Via: Computerworld: Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by a high chain-link fence topped with razor wire. Cars entering the compound are […]
U.S. Transportation Security Administration Unredacted Manual for Flight and Other Screening Procedures
December 9th, 2009Via: Wikileaks: US Transportation Security Administration unredacted manual for flight and other screening procedures. This TSA manual was released by the TSA in an incompetantly redacted form—cut and paste the blacked out regions revealed the redacted text. The previously redacted regions were highlighed and sent to the New York based anti-secrecy site Cryptome.org. The TSA […]
U.S. Air Force Confirms ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Drone
December 9th, 2009Via: AFP: The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to […]
Telco and ISP Lawful Interception (Spying) Guides
December 7th, 2009Via: Cryptome: yahoo-spy.pdf Yahoo Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cox-spy.pdf Cox Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-ameritech-spy.pdf SBC-Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-lea-spy.pdf SBC Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 ameritech-spy.pdf Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cingular-spy.pdf Cingular Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cricket-spy.pdf Cricket Lawful Spying Guide […]
Google Expands Tracking to Logged Out Users
December 6th, 2009Via: Tech Radar: Anyone who’s a regular Google search user will know that the only way to avoid the company tracking your online activities is to log out of Gmail or whatever Google account you use. Not any more. As of last Friday, even searchers who aren’t logged into Google in any way have their […]
Man Controlled Robotic Hand with Thoughts
December 5th, 2009Via: AP: An Italian who lost his left forearm in a car crash was successfully linked to a robotic hand, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, scientists said Wednesday. During a one-month experiment conducted last year, 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello felt like his lost arm had grown […]
Britain: Cash Prizes for Catching CCTV Criminals
December 5th, 2009Via: BBC: There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain watching our every move. In London, there are more CCTV cameras than any other city in the world with one camera for every eight Londoners. But as victims of crime have found to their cost, catching criminals on camera is dependent on the equipment being […]
FCC Now Planning “All-IP” Phone Transition
December 5th, 2009Via: Ars: The writing is on the wall for old school circuit-switched phone networks, and the world is going all-IP. Now, the FCC is gathering data to guide the next major transition of the country’s communications network.
Google Offers Public DNS Service
December 4th, 2009Update: Some Thoughts on Google DNS Interesting post from the CEO of DNS services company OpenDNS, who probably feels the bull’s-eye painted on his chest: Google claims that this service is better because it has no ads or redirection. But you have to remember they are also the largest advertising and redirection company on the […]
