Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Not The Onion: Blackwater Alumni Start Corporate Intelligence Firm Called Operation Jellyfish
May 15th, 2011I’m standing by to hear that this is a hoax. (Please, tell me this is a hoax.) Until then, why not put these slimy, primitive tentacles to use for all of your corporate intelligence needs? I think that Operation Cthulhu would have been better.Cthulhu Awakening Front Via: Wired: Veterans from the most infamous private security […]
Britain: Police Buy Software to Map Suspects’ Digital Movements
May 12th, 2011Flashback: MAIN CORE Via: Guardian: Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by the US military, which shows an individual’s movements and communications […]
Cellphones to Get Government Chips for Disaster Alerts
May 10th, 2011You won’t be able to opt out of receiving messages from Dear Leader… Some days, as I sift through all of this madness, I really miss George Carlin. I bet he’d just love this one. Via: Boston Globe: After more than five years of planning, a national emergency alert system that will send messages to […]
Your Location ‘Extremely Valuable’ to Google
May 2nd, 2011Via: International Business Times: Then, just weeks ago Los Angeles-based researcher Samy Kamkar illustrated that Google Android based smartphones were sending precise GPS location and other data back to Google “several times an hour.” “I cannot stress enough how important Google’s wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy,” Google location manager […]
CIPAV: FBI Spyware
May 1st, 2011Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: What is CIPAV and How Does It Work? The documents discuss technology that, when installed on a target’s computer, allows the FBI to collect the following information: IP Address Media Access Control (MAC) address “Browser environment variables” Open communication ports List of the programs running Operating system type, version, and serial […]
Life in Touchscreen Hell?
April 29th, 2011Related: The Future Where Soda Cans Have Screens Research Credit: BC
Data from TomTom Navigation Devices Used by Dutch Police to Set Speed Traps
April 28th, 2011Via: Guardian: Dutch drivers might have wondered how it was that speed traps were always in just the right place to catch speeders. It turned out to be simple enough: if they owned a TomTom, their in-car satnav was spying on them, and the aggregated data about cars’ speed was being sold via the government […]
U.S. Air Force Wants Miniature Drone to Covertly Drop Tracking Dust Onto People
April 28th, 2011Via: Wired: Here’s how the U.S. Air Force wants to hunt the next generation of its enemies: A tiny drone sneaks up to a suspect, paints him with an unnoticed powder or goo that allows American forces to follow him everywhere he goes — until they train a missile on him. On Tuesday, the Air […]
No Prosecution Seen for Official in NSA Leak
April 27th, 2011It’s better if as little attention as possible is directed at the NSA’s mass communications intercept program targeting Americans. Via: New York Times: A former Justice Department official who told Newsweek that he was one of the sources for a 2005 article in The New York Times about the National Security Agency’s program of wiretapping […]
Microsoft Collects Locations of Windows Phone Users
April 27th, 2011Via: Cnet: Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. Windows Phone 7, supported by manufacturers including Dell, HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung, transmits to Microsoft a miniature data dump including a unique device ID, details about nearby Wi-Fi networks, and the phone’s GPS-derived […]
