Archive for the 'Technology' Category
NSA vs. Military Academies
May 12th, 2008Via: Wired: Even with a solid network design and passable software choices, there was an element of intuitiveness required to defend against the NSA, especially once it became clear the agency was using minor, and perhaps somewhat obvious, attacks to screen for sneakier, more serious ones. “One of the challenges was when they see a […]
Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored?
May 6th, 2008Forget whatever the intelligence agencies are or aren’t doing for a moment. This article is about surveillance tools that are available to the public. Via: Geeks Are Sexy: It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. […]
Judge Rules for Taser in Cause-of-Death Decisions
May 5th, 2008Chilling. Via: Arizona Republic: Taser International has fired a warning shot at medical examiners across the country. The Scottsdale-based stun gun manufacturer increasingly is targeting state and county medical examiners with lawsuits and lobbying efforts to reverse and prevent medical rulings that Tasers contributed to someone’s death. That effort on Friday helped lead an Ohio […]
Air Marshals Grounded by Government’s No-Fly List
May 1st, 2008HA. Via: Washington Times: False identifications based on a terrorist no-fly list have for years prevented some federal air marshals from boarding flights they are assigned to protect, according to officials with the agency, which is finally taking steps to address the problem. Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) familiar with the situation say the mix-ups, in […]
The Hunt for the Kill Switch
May 1st, 2008Via: IEEE: Last September, Israeli jets bombed a suspected nuclear installation in northeastern Syria. Among the many mysteries still surrounding that strike was the failure of a Syrian radar—supposedly state-of-the-art—to warn the Syrian military of the incoming assault. It wasn’t long before military and technology bloggers concluded that this was an incident of electronic warfare—and […]
FBI Wants to Move Hunt for Criminals Into Internet Backbone
April 26th, 2008In other words, FBI wants to look for “illegal activity” in the intercepts that the NSA is already collecting. Via: Ars Technica: I think legislation has to be developed that balances on one hand, the privacy rights of the individual who are receiving the information, but on the other hand, given the technology, the necessity […]
Computer Security Community Warns High Street Chains
April 26th, 2008Via: Times Online: High street chains will be the next victims of cyber terrorism, some of the world’s elite hackers have warned. They claim it is only a “matter of time” before the likes of Tesco and Marks & Spencer are targeted. Criminals could use the kind of tactics which crippled Estonia’s government and some […]
SuperMemo: Scheduled Reviews of Material Profoundly Improves Memory
April 22nd, 2008The story about the memory tool is fascinating, but I became even more interested in how the man behind the software turned his life into what seems to me like a sort of cybernetic hell. The Machine is funny that way. It has a tendency to take over, the extent that a person (or organization […]
What Would You Pay to Never See Obama-McCain-Hillary Stories on Reddit Again?
April 18th, 2008If you answered $0, here’s the solution: Greasemonkey and the Reddit Content Filter script for Firefox. You can easily eliminate a lot of the cult/imbecile spam on Reddit with those tools. Here’s my filter string for titles: obama, hillary, clinton, mccain, pic, photo, vid, debate And look, the Politics subreddit is usable again. Priceless The […]
U.S. Defense Contractor Found that a Single Compromised Windows Box had Been Secretly Siphoning Information to a Server in Mainland China for 18 Months
April 13th, 2008Via: Wired: The attackers relied on e-mails tempting the victim to open the attachments, in some cases by presenting them as résumés from job seekers. But when the target opened the attachment, the application would usually crash, while the embedded code covertly installed a keylogger and data-stealing software that scooped up documents anywhere on the […]
