Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
December 14th, 2015Via: The Atlantic: The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages. The competition is fierce, secretive, and elite. It pits Apple against Google against Tesla against Uber: all titans of Silicon Valley, in many ways as enigmatic as they are revered. […]
Air Force proposes $3-Billion Plan to Vastly Expand Its Drone Program
December 14th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: The Air Force wants to vastly expand its drone program over the next five years by doubling the number of pilots and deploying them to bases in California and elsewhere to give commanders better intelligence and more firepower.
France Looking at Banning Tor, Blocking Public Wi-Fi
December 7th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: According to leaked documents from the Ministry of Interior the French government is considering two new pieces of legislation: a ban on free and shared Wi-Fi connections during a state of emergency, and measures to block Tor being used inside France. The documents were seen by the French newspaper Le Monde. According […]
Car Turns Driver in for Hit-and-Run
December 4th, 2015Via: WPBF: A Port St. Lucie woman is under arrest in connection with a hit-and-run. Police responded to a hit-and-run in the 500 block of Northwest Prima Vista Boulevard on Monday afternoon. The victim, Anna Preston, said she was struck from behind by a black vehicle that took off. Preston was taken to the hospital […]
The Secret Message Hidden in Every HTTP/2 Connection
November 30th, 2015Via: jgc: If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you’ll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of the connection… Written a little more clearly that’s: PRI * HTTP2.0 SM The HTTP verb is PRI and the body contains just SM. Put them together and you get… […]
Physicists Achieve Quantum Entanglement at Room Temperature
November 23rd, 2015Via: SciTechDaily: Previously, scientists have overcome the thermodynamic barrier and achieved macroscopic entanglement in solids and liquids by going to ultra-low temperatures (-270 degrees Celsius) and applying huge magnetic fields (1,000 times larger than that of a typical refrigerator magnet) or using chemical reactions. In the November 20 issue of Science Advances, Klimov and other […]
Beware of Ads That Use Inaudible Sound to Link Your Phone, TV, Tablet, and PC
November 13th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person’s online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers. The ultrasonic pitches are embedded into TV commercials or are played when a user encounters an ad displayed in […]
Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s Watching You
November 12th, 2015Via: ProPublica: TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands has a feature that it’s not advertising: Vizio’s Smart TVs track your viewing habits and share it with advertisers, who can then find you on your phone and other devices. The tracking — […]
Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1 Million to Help Unmask Users
November 12th, 2015Via: Wired: Ever since a Carnegie Mellon talk on cracking the anonymity software Tor was abruptly pulled from the schedule of the Black Hat hacker conference last year, the security community has been left to wonder whether the research was silently handed over to law enforcement agencies seeking to uncloak the internet’s anonymous users. Now […]
Apple Boss: Next Generation of Children ‘Will Not Know What Money Is’
November 11th, 2015Well, most adults don’t know what money is, so… I’ve maintained for years that the whole thing isn’t cashless already because of the drug trade being run by intelligence agencies. I don’t know how officially sanctioned “illegal” drug trafficking will work in a cashless system. Maybe they will implement some sort of blockchain thing that […]
