Archive for the 'Technology' Category
UK: Government Will Spy on Every Call and E-mail
October 6th, 2008Mmm hmm. Via: Telegraph: Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain. GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to finance the first stage of the project. Hundreds of clandestine […]
New Homeland Security Magic 8 Ball Removes Terrorists Fast! Now with 100% More WTF?
September 24th, 2008“Sorry, officer, I’ve been reading Cryptogon for so many years I thought the twitching would have stopped by now.” Via: Fox News: Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or […]
Homeland Security Wants to X-Ray Your Car… With You in It
September 17th, 2008Via: USA Today: A controversial new X-ray technology is being tested that could stop potential terrorists from blowing up a car bomb at one of the nation’s airports, homeland security officials say. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is running a test at a North Carolina ferry terminal of a 21-foot-high arch-like machine that shoots low-intensity […]
Google’s Offshore Data Barges
September 15th, 2008HAR! Via: Times: Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”. The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore. The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to […]
U.N. Agency Eyes Curbs on Internet Anonymity
September 14th, 2008The NSA and the Chinese government are working together, through the U.N., to draft plans for systems that would enable all Internet sessions to be authoritatively traced back to their origins. Man, if this one doesn’t get your tinfoil in a knot, nothing will. If you want to know what anonymous on the Internet actually […]
Lotus Concept Car Body Made Out of Hemp
September 13th, 2008Don’t get me wrong, this is the most absurd clean, green hype piece that you’re likely to read today. It’ll be a big hit with the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf crowd in Santa Monica… However, I found it very fascinating that the body of the vehicle is made out of hemp. We all know […]
What Is Woodward’s ‘Secret Weapon’ in Iraq?
September 13th, 2008The human thermal fingerprint is a pretty strange. I have no idea if that’s it, but look at page 12 of this U.S. Special Operations Command briefing paper on Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking and Locating (CTTL). They want “battery independent” tracking devices that harvest energy from ambient RF fields, movement and wind. Via: Wired: I’m […]
Hackers Infiltrate Large Hadron Collider Systems and Mock IT Security
September 13th, 2008Not physically isolating the systems responsible for running the Large Hadron Collider from a network that’s connected to the Internet??? Priceless. It sounds like the attackers ran into an internal firewall/gateway that exists around the network used to control the LHC. Via: Telegraph: Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns […]
Secret Assassination Program is Key in Iraq, Woodward Says
September 10th, 2008Oh sure, Bob. During the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program ran from 1967 through the Tet Offensive and until the Americans fled Vietnam. I seriously doubt that an assassination program is working in Iraq. More likely, the cash bribes that the U.S. has been paying to insurgents to stay home, or kill their religious enemies […]
UK: Shoppers to Use Fingerprints or Eye Scans to Pay for Goods
September 10th, 2008Mmm hmm. The clean, green ziggurat will have everything under control. Get your retina scanned to gain access to the free speech zone? Via: Telegraph: The futuristic systems, like those used by Tom Cruise in the science fiction film Minority Report, are being developed by scientists for Barclaycard. The company has announced it is investing […]
