Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World
February 12th, 2009UPDATE: Contest Results The target was a picture of my ancient, tattered Audio Technica headphones sitting on the concrete floor. There were no direct hits, but 9 of 13 submissions had something to do with round things. For days, it looked like Evil Chopsticks was going to be the closest one, since he or she […]
Satire: The Latest from Sony
February 10th, 2009Warning: Contains naughty words. Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn’t Fucking Work
Wikileaks: A Billion Dollars Worth of Quazi Secret Congressional Reports
February 9th, 2009For those who want to cut right to the chase: Torrents. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from […]
French Fighter Planes Grounded by Computer Virus
February 8th, 2009Via: Telegraph: French fighter planes were unable to take off after military computers were infected by a computer virus, an intelligence magazine claims. The aircraft were unable to download their flight plans after databases were infected by a Microsoft virus they had already been warned about several months beforehand. At one point French naval staff […]
Big Pharma’s Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight “Mind Wars” on Future Battlefields
February 4th, 2009Via: Natural News: Pharmaceutical products could be employed to boost the performance of one army’s soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. The report, “Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies,” addresses the question of how emerging neuroscience technologies […]
And Now… Google Offers Service to Track People via Their Mobile Phones
February 4th, 2009The surveillance side of this is the chickenfeed. There’s something far more sinister than the simple surveillance… an angle we haven’t heard about yet. Tice never did tell his story to Congress about this different aspect of the program. Well, my guess is that it has something to do with providing surveillance data for this […]
The Army’s Remote-Controlled Beetle
February 4th, 2009The Singularity is here somewhere… It’ll be great. Really. Via: MIT Technology Review: A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Scientists at the University of California developed a tiny rig that receives control signals from a nearby computer. […]
War Driving San Francisco Cloning RFID Passports
February 2nd, 2009Via: Engadget: Chris Paget just did you a service by hacking your passport and stealing your identity. Using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop, Chris recently drove around San Francisco reading RFID tags from passports, driver licenses, and other identity documents. In just 20 minutes, he found and cloned the […]
FDA Admits Cloned Meat, Milk May Have Already Entered Food Supply
February 1st, 2009Via: Natural News: The FDA has admitted that meat and milk from the offspring of cloned mammals such as cows, pigs, goats and sheep could very well have already entered the food supply in the United States. “It is theoretically possible,” agency spokesperson Siobhan DeLancey said. In January, the FDA declared that foods derived from […]
Every Military Net Accessed at Once, Thanks to ‘OB1’
January 31st, 2009Machines that are physically connected to the public internet are going to share physical connections with classified networks. * grin * What could possibly go wrong? If the hacker owns the hypervisor, he/she owns all data traversing the hypervisor and is in a position to sample, redirect, or spoof anything. Without some form of fail-safe, […]
