Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Wants to Build Cybersecurity Protection Plan for Cars
August 4th, 2011Better make sure your car’s firewall and antivirus definitions are up to date. *grin* Via: Network World: As cars and other forms of transportation increasingly rely on online systems for everything from safety to onboard entertainment, the cybersecurity threat from those who would exploit such electronic control packages has also increased. That’s why the US […]
The Secret Patriot Act Is Staying Secret
August 3rd, 2011Via: Wired: The secret Patriot Act is staying secret. Two Senators have been warning for months that the government has a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to an entirely different law — one that gives the feds massive domestic surveillance powers, and keeps the rest of us in […]
Berkeley Researchers Find Insidious Web Tracking Technique
July 30th, 2011Update: Ghostery Blocks KissMetrics Crap By Default I found a list of sites that use the KissMetrics nonsense and I went to one using Firefox. Ghostery detected and blocked KissInsights and KissMetrics by default. Just FYI: Although I’ve mentioned addons like Ghostery, AdBlock+ and NoScript for years, these prevent me from earning commissions on your […]
House Panel Approves Broadened ISP Snooping Bill
July 29th, 2011Via: Cnet: Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers’ activities for one year–in case police want to review them in the future–under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today. The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology […]
Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The Fly
July 29th, 2011If you think that this is just about speed, I’d urge you to consider Beware Online “Filter Bubbles”: As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could […]
TSA Readying New Behavior Detection Plan for Airport Checkpoints
July 29th, 2011Via: Politico: The federal government is planning to introduce new behavior detection techniques at airport checkpoints as soon as next month, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said Thursday. TSA already has “behavior detection officers” at 161 airports nationwide looking for travelers exhibiting physiological or psychological signs that a traveler might be a terrorist. However, […]
Bank ‘Activity’ Required For Wisconsin Voter ID
July 28th, 2011Via: disinfo.com: In the state of Wisconsin, you may be denied the ability to vote for lack of sufficient recent “bank activity”. A woman surreptitiously filmed the interactions as her 18-year-old son leaps through hurdle after hurdle in an attempt to get a constitutionally-guaranteed state ID so that he could vote. At the DMV, the […]
General Council of U.S. National Security Agency: Americans Are Tracked Via Mobile Phones
July 27th, 2011I’ve been waiting for them to make this one official for a long time. Related: Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Via: Wall Street Journal: Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.? According to the general counsel of the National Security Agency, […]
China: Maniac Fascist Regime Forces Anyone Who Offers Free Wi-Fi Internet Access to Purchase Monitoring Software That Costs $3,100
July 27th, 2011Via: New York Times: New regulations that require bars, restaurants, hotels and bookstores to install costly Web monitoring software are prompting many businesses to cut Internet access and sending a chill through the capital’s game-playing, Web-grazing literati who have come to expect free Wi-Fi with their lattes and green tea. The software, which costs businesses […]
Google Wasn’t Just Sniffing for Wi-Fi Base Stations
July 26th, 2011Via: Cnet: Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed. The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of […]
