Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Police Increasingly Peeping at E-Mail, Instant Messages
April 14th, 2011This article ignores the existence of the NSA’s large scale, warrantless intercept program that’s running inside the U.S. Via: MacWorld: Law enforcement organizations are making tens of thousands of requests for private electronic information from companies such as Sprint, Facebook and AOL, but few detailed statistics are available, according to a privacy researcher. Police and […]
How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic
April 14th, 2011Here’s commentary from, U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators: …When you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. For example, when you type in cnn.com or google.com, what you see may be quite different from what the rest of the world sees. The military could […]
New Zealand: Controversial Internet Piracy Bill Becomes Law
April 14th, 2011If at first you don’t succeed, try again under urgency. Via: Stuff: A bill that could see internet users have their access cut off if they repeatedly share copyright material has been passed by Parliament. The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Bill, which aims to stamp out internet piracy, passed by 111 votes to 11 […]
Rebels Hijack Gadhafi’s Phone Network
April 13th, 2011Read, U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators for context and then you tell me who you think pulled this off. While the story below describes a much different technical solution than what’s described in the latter story, there’s a lot happening that’s spooky. If Ousama Abushagur is just a, “31-year-old Libyan telecom […]
Facebook’s New Realtime Analytics System: HBase to Process 20 Billion Events Per Day
April 13th, 2011Via: High Scalability: The need for such a high powered analytics system is driven by Facebook’s brilliant plan for world wide web domination via the viral propagation of social plugins, all tying the non-Facebook web back into Facebook and the Facebook web back into the non-Facebook web. Basically anything that people can do is captured […]
EFF to San Francisco Entertainment Commission: Don’t Turn SF into a Police State
April 13th, 2011Stark raving maniac fascism. Via: EFF: The city of San Francisco has a long history of political activism and cultural diversity, which could be in danger if the San Francisco Entertainment Commission has their way. The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined civil liberties and privacy groups in criticizing a proposal from the San Francisco Entertainment Commission […]
Interpol Chief Calls for Global Electronic Identity Card System
April 6th, 2011Papelles. Via: Help Net Security: The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management. Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA ID WORLD summit, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said that […]
Secret X-37B Space Plane Spotted Again by Amateur Skywatchers
March 29th, 2011Via: Space: After an intense search, a crew of amateur satellite sleuths has spotted the U.S. Air Force’s second X-37B space plane – a robotic spacecraft that launched into orbit March 5. The mission of the unmanned X-37B space plane, which is known officially as the Orbital Test Vehicle 2 (OTV-2), is shrouded in secrecy. […]
‘It’s Tracking Your Every Move’
March 28th, 2011Via: New York Times: A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game. But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we […]
University of Utah to Consider Curriculum for Future NSA Data Warehouse Employees
March 28th, 2011I have one piece of advice for anyone who wants to do this sort of work: Get 3M 1440 headphones. If you should find yourself having to work with others, on that Christmas Eve graveyard shift, for example, a white sharpie would come in handy, too. In the past, when I worked in soul destroying […]
