Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Binney: NSA Is So Overwhelmed with Data, It’s No Longer Effective
March 23rd, 2016On the contrary, I think it’s remarkably effective, as long as effective means being able to use retroactive surveillance and parallel construction to secretly build criminal cases against anyone the state wants to disappear into its private/for-profit gulags. Furthermore, most “terrorist” attacks are very obviously false flag operations. So tune away on the Magic 8 […]
The Long-Awaited Promise of a Programmable Quantum Computer
March 23rd, 2016Via: MIT Technology Review: The quest to build a powerful quantum computer is one of the great challenges of 21st century physics. And although the hurdles are significant, physicists are chasing them down, one by one. They’ve gradually learned how to control quantum particles with the precision necessary to run quantum algorithms on a small […]
Apple’s iCloud to Run on Google’s Cloud
March 16th, 2016Via: Business Insider: It’s been only four months since Google convinced enterprise queen Diane Greene to lead its fledgling cloud-computing business, but she’s already scored a second huge coup for Google: landing Apple as a customer which is not good news from Amazon. Apple has reportedly signed a contract worth between $400 million and $600 […]
NSA Intercepts for Law Enforcement
March 16th, 2016I said it back in 2013 when we learned about parallel construction. It’s NSA’s infrastructure. The cat was completely out of the bag back then. Via: Privacy SOS: The wall separating “foreign” intelligence operations from domestic criminal investigations has finally, fully collapsed. The FBI now plans to act on a rule change initiated by the […]
The New Mind Control
March 14th, 2016Don’t let this one slip down the page without clicking through! This piece doesn’t mention virtual reality, but VR is going to be an integral part of this, “unseen dictatorship.” It’s easy to pass off clunky RV tech demos as some sort of passing fad. Yep, I remember the 1990s too. But it’s different this […]
$1400 Device Can Cause LTE Mobile Phones to Use Compromised 2G Networks
March 13th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Phones now operate on more sophisticated 3G and 4G (also known as LTE) networks. In theory, IMSI catchers can pinpoint only the location of these phones, not listen to calls or read texts. But none of that matters if the IMSI catcher in question can just knock a phone call back down to […]
The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
March 12th, 2016Via: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. … “Most Americans realize that there are two groups of people who are monitored regularly as they move […]
No, Turning On Your Phone Is Not Consenting to Being Tracked by Police
March 6th, 2016Via: The Intercept: The Maryland Court of Special Appeals on Wednesday upheld a historic decision by a state trial court that the warrantless use of cell-site simulators, or Stingrays, violates the Fourth Amendment. The trial court had suppressed evidence obtained by the warrantless use of a Stingray — the first time any court in the […]
MIT’s New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
March 6th, 2016“all you have to do is go in the lab, apply more technology, and you should be able to make a bigger quantum computer” So the only thing preventing a more general purpose quantum computer is money and enough engineers… Hmm… Via: PC World: Much of the encryption world today depends on the challenge of […]
Billboards to Track People via Mobile Phones
March 2nd, 2016“All data is anonymous and aggregated, they say, meaning individual consumers cannot be identified.” Oh sure. Via: New York Times: Pass a billboard while driving in the next few months, and there is a good chance the company that owns it will know you were there and what you did afterward. Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, […]
