Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
How Police Tracked Down Steve Jobs’ Stolen iPads
August 20th, 2012Recent commentary: With regard to the alleged privacy one supposedly enjoys with the iPhone: What privacy exists if the device is constantly phoning home to the carrier and Apple and both of them can be subpoenaed? Hmm. Via: PC World: The digital breadcrumbs left behind when people use Internet-connected gadgets are what led California investigators […]
‘Mind-Control’ Gaming Devices Leak Brain Data That Help Researchers Guess Users’ Secrets
August 18th, 2012I’d classify this one mainly as entertainment for the moment, but it does really make one wonder what the next decade or two will hold along these lines… Assuming, of course, that we don’t turn our planet into a radioactive cinder. Via: Fortune: The budding field of brain-machine interfaces promises a science-fictional future where games, […]
Facebook Now Actually Deleting Photos After Users Delete Them?
August 17th, 2012Breaking URLs is not “confirmation” that Facebook is deleting the data. It’s confirmation that the data isn’t accessible from the Internet. This says zippo about what they’re actually doing with the data. I suppose it’s possible that Facebook is deleting the data, but claiming that the data was deleted because it’s not accessible is a […]
Unblinking Surveillance Stare: Army’s 7-Story Flying Football Field-Sized Blimp
August 15th, 2012Via: Network World: The U.S. Army has a 7-story flying football field-sized blimp with a 21-day unblinking surveillance stare. The LEMV, described as a “Revolutionary ISR Weapon System” completed a successful 90-minute test flight directly over New Jersey where the fiery Hindenburg disaster happened. … The high tech blimp’s “skin” is made from “a blend […]
TrapWire: Abraxas Also Provided ‘Internet Anonymity Services’
August 14th, 2012If you wanted a concentrated haul of the most interesting information what would you do? You would establish a honeypot: a service (free or paid) that purported to provide an anonymous web browsing/email capability. Who knows what people might get up to if they thought nobody was looking? That, of course, is the idea with […]
Kaspersky Asks for Help with Decrypting Gauss Payload
August 14th, 2012Via: Kaspersky Lab – SecureList: There are many remaining mysteries in the Gauss and Flame stories. For instance, how do people get infected with the malware? Or, what is the purpose of the uniquely named “Palida Narrow” font that Gauss installs? Perhaps the most interesting mystery is Gauss’ encrypted warhead. Gauss contains a module named […]
Facedeals
August 14th, 2012“We can ‘soft control’ users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them.” —Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’ Via: Los Angeles Times: A new app is being tested in Nashville, Tenn., that can check in people on Facebook and send them offers using facial-recognition cameras. […]
‘If you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data’
August 14th, 2012Keep in mind, we don’t know what happens when a drive is sent to NSA, as when laptops are stolen from people by the U.S. Government at airports. We only hear about encryption frustrating criminal investigations. I don’t know of a single case involving national security and full disk encryption. If you do, let me […]
Unravelling TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System
August 11th, 2012Via: Public Intelligence: Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor have shed light on a global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock Exchange to the White House. The emails, which were released yesterday by WikiLeaks, provide information on the extent […]
AntiLeaks Group Claim Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attacks
August 11th, 2012Operational Mirror as of 12 August 01:30 NZ time. Via: Register: The WikiLeaks website has been under a major DDoS attack over the last few days and a group calling itself AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility. “We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with […]
