Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
Private Security Company Investigation Into Disastrous Election Systems Security
November 8th, 2020This is Russell Ramsland of Allied Security Operations Group. Via: CD Media: Backup:
Microsoft Partners with SpaceX to Connect Azure Cloud to Musk’s Starlink Satellite Internet
October 20th, 2020SpaceX is a major DoD contractor. Microsoft is a major DoD contractor. Better broadband for people in rural areas? This is definitely one for your, Yes, but wait, there’s more… file folder. Via: CNBC: Microsoft is partnering with SpaceX to connect the tech giant’s Azure cloud computing network to the growing Starlink satellite internet service […]
Covid-19: Increased Use of Electronic Ankle Monitors
October 8th, 2020Via: MIT Technology Review: As covid-19 began to spread earlier this year, it soon became clear that prisons and jails are particularly susceptible to outbreaks. In response, criminal justice systems around the world started looking for alternatives to incarceration. Many turned to electronic ankle monitors as a solution. They used this technology to quickly relocate […]
Operation Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts Secret
October 7th, 2020Via: The Last American Vagabond: $6 billion in Covid-19 vaccine contracts awarded by Operation Warp Speed have been doled out by a secretive government contractor with deep ties to the CIA and DHS, escaping regulatory scrutiny and beyond the reach of FOIA requests. Last Tuesday, while most Americans were distracted by the first US presidential […]
How the Police Use AI to Track and Identify You
October 3rd, 2020Via: The Gradient: Surveillance is becoming an increasingly controversial application given the rapid pace at which AI systems are being developed and deployed worldwide. While protestors marched through the city demanding justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality, Minneapolis police trained surveillance tools to identify them. With just hours to sift through […]
Dark Journalist – Catherine Austin Fitts: The Deep State Chaos Op
October 3rd, 2020Packed with very interesting information. This is the best summary of recent events that I’ve come across. Via: Dark Journalist: Related: Solari
China Sharply Expands Mass Labor Program in Tibet
September 22nd, 2020Via: Reuters: China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region that rights groups have branded coercive labor.
Northrop Grumman Wins $13.3 Billion Contract To Build New ICBM
September 10th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Defense firm Northrop Grumman has announced it has landed a major defense contract to lead in developing America’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program. It won a whopping $13.3 billion Air Force contract to build the Pentagon’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), crucial in nuclear deterrence. A Northrop Grumman press release said that a […]
NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board As Director
September 9th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Just days after Amazon published a scathing letter slamming President Trump for not allowing the American multinational tech company to get the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which instead was awarded to Microsoft, Amazon’s board has just appointed former NSA head and retired general of the US Army Keith B. […]
U.S. Government Asks Mitre Corp to Build Creepy Surveillance Technologies
September 7th, 2020Via: Forbes: Among the government’s wilder Mitre orders: a prototype tool that can hack into smartwatches, fitness trackers and home thermometers for the purposes of homeland security; software to collect human fingerprints from social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the FBI; support in building what the FBI calls the biggest database of […]
