Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Real Headline: MI6 Codebreaker Gareth Williams ‘Probably Locked Himself Into Sports Bag’
December 27th, 2012Main Post: Murdered British Spy Found Stuffed Into Sports Bag in Bath of London Flat Comments are open on the main post. — Mmm hmm. Sure. It’s incredible what someone might get up to inside a gym bag… inside an MI6 safehouse. Via: Telegraph: MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams probably locked himself into the sports bag […]
Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
December 26th, 2012Via: AllGov: The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval. More: Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — Again
How the Internet Became a Closed Shop
December 22nd, 2012Via: Sydney Morning Herald: A LITTLE over a decade ago, just before the masses discovered the digital universe, the internet was a borderless new frontier: a terra nullius to be populated by individuals, groups and programmers as they saw fit. There were few rules and no boundaries. Freedom and open standards, sharing information for the […]
Military Turns to ESPN to Help Analyze Drone Footage
December 22nd, 2012Via: USA Today: Can SportsCenter teach the military something about combating terrorists? After rapidly expanding the number of drones around the world, the Air Force is now reaching out to ESPN and other experts in video analysis to keep up with the flood of footage the unmanned aircraft are transmitting. “They’re looking at anything and […]
NYPD to Use Internet to Try to Stop Mass Shootings
December 22nd, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: New York Times: Top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department met on Thursday to examine ways to search the Internet to identify potential “deranged” gunmen before they strike, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said. “The techniques would include cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet […]
And Now… ‘Time to Profile White Men?’
December 20th, 2012Via: Salon: Yesterday, during a cable news discussion of gun violence and the Newtown school shooting, I dared mention a taboo truism. During a conversation on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” I said that because most of the mass shootings in America come at the hands of white men, there would likely be political opposition […]
Citizen Drone Warfare?
December 20th, 2012How long until direction finding and jamming equipment will have to be carried by police? I know: Ban drones! Via: YouTube:
Cox Communications Adds Code to Web Traffic to Announce Email Outage
December 16th, 2012This means that they can flick a switch and make sites display anything they want. Any ISP could do this, in theory, but this shows that Cox Communications has built it. Countermeasures? * Use HTTPS, when available (assuming your ISP isn’t running equipment made by Packet Forensics) * Run a persistent VPN to some exit […]
National Counterterrorism Center to Examine Government Files of U.S. Citizens for Possible Criminal Behavior
December 13th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to debate a controversial proposal. Counterterrorism officials wanted to create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. citizens—even people suspected of no crime. Not everyone was on board. “This is a sea change in the […]
Samsung Firmware Flaw Allows ‘Smart’ TVs to Watch You
December 13th, 2012Via: Security Ledger: The company that made headlines in October for publicizing zero day holes in SCADA products now says it has uncovered a remotely exploitable security hole in Samsung Smart TVs. If left unpatched, the vulnerability could allow hackers to make off with owners’ social media credentials and even to spy on those watching […]
