Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
“This Cyborg Cockroach Could be the Future of Earthquake Search and Rescue”
December 10th, 2023Speaking of creatures carrying surveillance and remote control equipment… pic.twitter.com/sdryCO4yxe — cryptogon (@cryptogon) December 9, 2023 Via: Nature: Hirotaka Sato was in Tokyo when the earthquake struck in March 2011. The tremors destroyed tens of thousands of buildings and triggered a tsunami that battered Japan’s east coast, including the Fukushima nuclear power plant. More than […]
Governments Spying on Apple, Google Users Through Push Notifications
December 6th, 2023What can I say? If you’re even mildly surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention for the past couple of decades. Via: Reuters: Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials […]
Billionaire Palmer Luckey Unveils Jet-Powered VTOL Kamikaze Drone
December 6th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge: Introducing: Roadrunner, a compact VTOL drone powered by twin thrust-vectored turbojet engines with extraordinary speed, range, and payload capacity. & Roadrunner-M, a radical new low-cost weapon that allows for unprecedented tactics against powerful threats. pic.twitter.com/2C7Ga0h1Hf — Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) December 1, 2023 Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, is positioning Anduril Industries, his […]
Cyber Threat Intelligence League: US And UK Military Contractors Created Sweeping Plan For Global Censorship In 2018
November 30th, 2023Flashback 2020: Meet the IDF-Linked Cybersecurity Group “Protecting” US Hospitals ‘Pro Bono’: …an odd group of “cyber threat intelligence” analysts with ties to the US government, Israeli intelligence and tech giant Microsoft have “volunteered” to protect US healthcare institutions for free and have even directly partnered with US federal agencies to do so. They have […]
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of U.S. Phone Records
November 21st, 2023Via: Wired: A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, a surveillance program now known […]
Maniac Fascist Nikki Haley Calls for Social Media Users to Verify Identity
November 16th, 2023Would it be just for social media, Nikki, or would it be required to do anything on the Internet? National security concerns, and all. Via: New York Post: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday proposed forcing social media users to verify their identities before posting, citing “national security” concerns. The former South Carolina governor’s […]
Chevrolet App Turns Off Vehicle Involved in Janesville Police Chase
November 15th, 2023Via: NBC15: The vehicle involved in a police chase Tuesday in Janesville was able to be turned off remotely using the automaker’s app, police explained. The vehicle the 54-year-old was driving was believed to be stolen, the Janesville Police Department reported, and was spotted around noon by Street Crimes Unit officers. Thanks to GPS monitoring, […]
The Spy in Your Phone
October 27th, 2023This is a couple of years old and has been covered extensively on Cryptogon, but it sums up a lot of information. Via: Al Jazeera: Related: Finding You: The Network Effect of Telecommunications Vulnerabilities for Location Disclosure
Louis Rossmann: Grayjay
October 23rd, 2023Grayjay is fantastic. I installed Grayjay from the source on their site, not Google’s Play Store. I don’t normally use YouTube from my phone, because the official app and all of the ads make for a terrible experience. Also, the official app requires the phone’s display to be turned on during playback, and I mostly […]
After Russia Pulls Out of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, U.S. Conducts Experiment to Improve “Detection of Underground Nuclear Explosive Tests”
October 22nd, 2023Via: Fox: The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, which Moscow said would put it on par with the United States. Wednesday’s test used chemicals and radioisotopes to “validate new predictive explosion models” that can help detect atomic blasts in […]
