Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
DARPA Developing Alternative to GPS; Doesn’t Depend on Satellites
April 25th, 2013Via: AFP: To that end, researchers at DARPA and the University of Michigan have created a new system that works without satellites to determine position, time and direction, all contained within a eight-cubic-millimeter chip. The tiny chip holds three gyroscopes, three accelerometers and an atomic clock, which, together, work as an autonomous navigation system. DARPA […]
Israel Airport Security ‘Allowed to Read Tourists’ Email’
April 25th, 2013If you think this is good, why not go for the bonus round: Israel Cloned Travelers’ Passports to Carry Out Assassination. Via: AFP: Israeli security officials at Ben Gurion airport are legally allowed to demand access to tourists’ email accounts and deny them entry if they refuse, the country’s top legal official said on Wednesday. […]
Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston Bombing
April 23rd, 2013Yeah, the President should have the power to order the assassination of any American without any due process. Oh… Via: Politicker: In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks. “The […]
Apple and Google Keep Voice App Data for Two Years
April 20th, 2013Via: Engadget: It’s no secret that Apple hangs onto your Siri data for some length of time (as other companies so with search data and the like), but it hasn’t been clear exactly how long it keeps that data sitting on its servers. Wired has now cleared that up somewhat, though, hearing from Apple spokesperson […]
U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA
April 20th, 2013Via: EFF: Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. For the second year in a row, the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy […]
DARPA Cyber Chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko Heads To Google
April 15th, 2013Via: The Security Ledger: Noted hacker and innovator Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a project manager for cyber security research at DARPA for the past three years- will be setting up shop in the Googleplex, according to a post on his Twitter feed.
How the Pentagon Used Video Games to Spy on Users Worldwide
April 11th, 2013Full interview. Via: Democracy Now: Research Credit: ottilie
IRS: We Can Read Emails Without Warrant
April 11th, 2013Via: The Hill: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people’s emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday. In […]
CourseSmart E-Textbooks Monitor Student Reading Habits
April 10th, 2013In technofascist America, E-books read you. Via: New York Times: Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks. They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, not bothering to take notes — or simply not opening the book […]
Laser Scans Objects in 3D from Half a Mile Away
April 10th, 2013Via: Engadget: 3D scanning at a range of 0.62 miles? It just became possible, thanks to a laser camera developed by physicists at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. You can pretty much see how it works from the images above — laser beams are bounced off the target and the duration of their return […]
