Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
One Tip Now Enough to Put Name on Terrorist Watch List
December 30th, 2010Oh, well, “As long as it is deemed credible.” But of course. This is The Land of the Free. We don’t just add people to the Magic 8 Ball shit list for Whistling Dixie. Who helped Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab board Northwest Airlines Flight 253? Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane […]
U.S. Government Wants to Archive Information on All Bank to Bank Overseas Money Transfers for Ten Years
December 30th, 2010Via: EFF: What do an online donation to the International Red Cross, a bank transfer to family members living in Vietnam, and a payment sent through PayPal for an expensive rug in Turkey have in common? The government wants to know about them. And, if new rules proposed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or […]
Living Earth Simulator
December 29th, 2010I seriously need a Magic 8 Ball category. Via: BBC: It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth – from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international financial transactions or […]
SkyWatch Manned Mobile Surveillance System
December 28th, 2010Research Credit: JW
New Jersey: Mobile Police Guard Towers
December 23rd, 2010Update: SkyWatch Manned Mobile Surveillance System —End Update—
MI6 Spy Gareth Williams: Keys Found Under Body, Inside Bag
December 22nd, 2010Via: Telegraph: Detectives investigating the death of the MI6 spy Gareth Williams have disclosed that keys to the padlock on the sports bag were found inside the North Face holdall, underneath Mr Williams’s naked body. An expert on rescuing people from confined spaces has told investigators that it would be impossible to lock the bag […]
U.S. Postal Service Vehicles to Carry Sensor Packages
December 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: The service’s thousands of delivery vehicles have only one purpose now: to transport mail. But what if they were fitted with sensors to collect and transmit information about weather or air pollutants? The trucks would go from being bulky tools of industrial-age communication to being on the cutting edge of 21st-century […]
Weak Update; More Later; Telecom Hell Continues
December 21st, 2010Update: After Being Down for Three Days… It came back up a few hours after I posted this. Thanks, Telecom. Love ya. Really. *wink* —End Update— I’ve been driving around the wopwops, documenting another Telecom XT outage in this area. This time, I borrowed another XT user’s sim card to try, in addition to my […]
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
U.S. and Canada Planning North American Perimeter
December 17th, 2010Via: National Post: The Conservative government is set to announce a landmark security and trade deal with the United States, designed to create a perimeter around North America and allow people and goods to flow more freely across the border. Sources suggested that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama will sign the broad-ranging […]
