Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Implantable Microchip Cancer Report
November 22nd, 2007Via: Anti Chips: CASPIAN’s new report, “Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs: A Review of the Literature 1990-2006,” is a definitive review of research showing a causal link between implanted radio-frequency (RFID) microchip transponders and cancer in laboratory rodents and dogs. It was written in part to correct industry misstatements and misinformation circulating about […]
Tor Exit Nodes Harvest Huge Amounts of Sensitive Information
November 21st, 2007Relying on Tor for security/anonymity is as dumb as relying on proxy servers. If you read the ugly truth, you already know that. But, as usual, it’s not that bad, it’s worse. Dan Egerstad, a Swedish security researcher, set up several Tor servers and used basic traffic analysis techniques to glean lots of foreign government […]
Chinese Sub Pops Up in Middle of U.S. Navy Exercise
November 11th, 2007There are a few navy.mil readers who haven’t been blocked from reading Cryptogon… So, any guesses on why that Chinese sub didn’t show up on active sonar? (Not holding my breath for a response.) Update: The Story Appears to be Over a Year Old Via: Daily Mail: When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet […]
Military Releases Heavily Redacted Report on Directed Energy Weapon Accident
November 10th, 2007Don’t microwave me, bro! Via: Wired: Seven months after an airman was burned in a test of the nonlethal heat beam, the Air Force has released a heavily redacted version of the mishap report that reveals few details about what happened. The military has bent over backwards to demonstrate to the public that the Active […]
Like it or Not, $100 Oil Forces New Energy Policy on U.S.
November 10th, 2007“The reality is that the oil companies are going to lift our wallets and then flip us upside down to shake loose any change that may have remained in our pockets.” —From an upcoming Cryptogon essay Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. BP solar panels, Chevron wave power, etc… Who knows? Cheney’s […]
Hushmail: Encrypted Email Provider Turns Over Clear Text Messages to Feds
November 8th, 2007“I don’t believe in web based email solutions that purport to provide strong encryption and/or anonymity. Who knows what their applets and servers are doing? Not me.” —The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity * sigh * Via: Wired: Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that “not even a Hushmail […]
Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.”
November 8th, 2007Must see related stories: NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance Via: Washington Post: A Story of Surveillance Former Technician ‘Turning In’ AT&T Over NSA Program By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 7, 2007; D01 His first inkling that […]
Giggling Robot Becomes One of the Kids
November 6th, 2007Via: New Scientist: Computers might not be clever enough to trick adults into thinking they are intelligent yet, but a new study shows that a giggling robot is sophisticated enough to get toddlers to treat it as a peer. An experiment led by Javier Movellan at the University of California San Diego, US, is the […]
No Email Privacy Rights Under Constitution, U.S. Government Claims
November 4th, 2007The most fascinating aspect of this is that lots of people assume that their plain text email communications are private! Via: Register: On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government’s request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the […]
Unloading Toxic Waste Mortgage Backed Securities: “We Americans Were Very Clever”
November 2nd, 2007We’ll see how clever they are when the Good Fellas show up to collect. At some point, this thing is going to start looking less like a financial crisis and more like a mob war. How do I know? Because I got a job that resulted from a decapitation strike against the computer systems of […]
