Archive for the 'Technology' Category
High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity
May 2nd, 20072013 Update How Unique – and Trackable – Is Your Browser? Software Can Identify You from Your Browsing Habits Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users —End Update— With the U.S. Government trying to shut down websites and stealing gold, I feel the need to discuss communications security, surveillance and anonymity as the U.S. collapses further into overt […]
UK: Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras
April 28th, 2007Remember remember: you’re all a bunch of slaves on the 5th of November. Via: Infowars: “Read my lips….” used to be a figurative saying. Now the British government is considering taking it literally by adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by […]
Pay to Upgrade DRM Infested Music Files to Open Format
April 4th, 2007I thought this was a lingering April Fool’s joke. Pay extra to get the music files the way they should have been released in the first place? Tell me another one. Via: The Inquirer: Apple and EMI triumphantly announced that they were removing DRM from Apple tracks for a mere $.30 more, upgradable if you […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $35 / Pookie Is Pissed
March 30th, 2007Pookie has made what she called a, “Denial of Service Donation,” and writes that she, “…is pissed as hell and believes that this is the proper response by Cryptogoners to Denial of Service attacks.” HA! Thanks, Pookie, for your incredible generosity and support. I’ve spent several hours working on hardening the defenses, trying to make […]
College Students to Pay More for Birth Control Pills
March 24th, 2007Pharmaceutical contraception is one of the most diabolical—and profitable—scams of all. This might fall into the “more info than you ever wanted to know” category, but my wife and I use the Ladycomp, a clinically tested and registered medical device from Germany. That thing works, as advertised. It is the Porsche of birth control methods […]
DARPA Grant Recipient: “We Can De-Animate People”
March 13th, 2007Paging Dr. Mengele… Dr. Josef Mengele, please pick up a white courtesy phone. Via: Wired: Darpa’s human-enhancement programs were looking promising. In February 2002, Darpa asked Congress for a new, $78 million-per-year push for research including “the development of biochemical materials for enhancement of performance.†That was on top of $90 million to explore how […]
Boeing’s Uninterruptible Autopilot System
March 8th, 2007This is the technology that made the 9/11 spectacles possible in the first place. But now, Boeing is going to peddle those same black boxes to make aircraft “hijack-proof.” As usual, I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Evening Standard: A hijack-proof piloting system for airliners is being developed to prevent terrorists repeating […]
Hitachi Develops RFID Powder
February 16th, 2007Via: Pink Tentacle: RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new “powder†type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet — which they aim to begin marketing in 2 to 3 years. By relying on semiconductor miniaturization technology and using electron beams to write data on the […]
Canadian Company Demonstrates 16 Qubit Quantum Computer
February 15th, 2007If these guys have a 16 qubit system, what does NSA have? Via: Scientific American: A Canadian manufacturer today unveiled what it called “the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer.” D-Wave Systems, Inc., “The Quantum Computing Company,” during a much ballyhooed rollout at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., hailed the new device […]
Direct Correlation Between Computing Power and Doom?
February 13th, 2007An 80 core CPU? Massively parallel home computers? I don’t know whether this news is more absurd or obscene. Oh sure, better games, HDTV, AI. Notice how none of this crap has anything to do clean air, food and water? How many cores will a CPU need in order to provide people with clean air, […]
