Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Why Did CBS Scrub A Story About Army Spy Planes Capturing the Times Square Bomber?
May 6th, 2010UPDATE: So I Asked Someone… I asked someone about this situation. Why not use the cell network? Don’t ask me who this person is, but he responded. He calls his response a SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess), but let’s just say that this person’s wild ass guess would be much more informed on these matters […]
National Virtual Translation Center
May 6th, 2010I had never heard about the National Virtual Translation Center before today. (It came up in one of my feeds on NSA.) Via: Monterey Herald: The new National Virtual Translation Center at Fort Ord will be formally opened at 1 p.m. Friday. The center will serve as the hub for national security translation needs for […]
Magic 8 Ball Police Cameras to Flood Manhattan, Looking for “Suspicious Behavior”
May 5th, 2010Via: AFP: New York officials say they could stop attacks like the attempted Times Square car bomb by expanding a controversial surveillance system so sensitive that it will pick up even suspicious behavior. New York is already a heavily policed city, with 35,000 officers and a counterterrorism bureau — the first of its kind in […]
Readily Available Software Roots Sophisticated Mobile Phones in Seconds, Permits Eavesdropping Even When Some Phones Are Turned Off
May 4th, 2010This should be ancient news to everyone reading this, but just in case… Via: CBS: The majority of Americans use all these cell phones to talk, text or tweet. But all this high tech communication hides a dark and troubling danger. “I don’t think the general public is aware how insidious this can be,” said […]
U.S. Subpoenas New York Times Reporter Over Book on CIA
April 29th, 2010Via: New York Times: The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times, received […]
Google: Biggest Wardriver of Them All?
April 25th, 2010Via: Register: Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’ unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along. Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar says he’s “horrified” […]
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
April 23rd, 2010Here’s my (one sentence) guess about what this is actually about: Facebook is a CIA cutout that’s frantically lobbying for privacy legislation to remain lax so that it can continue to run its various intelligence operations on the platform. Via: Venture Beat: Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past […]
Britain: Plate Reading Cameras Combined with GPS Will Automatically Issue Speeding Tickets; System Calculates Average Speed Between Two Points in ‘SpeedSpike’ Network
April 20th, 2010Via: Telegraph: A new type of speed cameras which can use satellites to measure average speed over long distances are being tested in Britain. The cameras, which combine number plate reading technology with a global positioning satellite receiver, are similar to those used in roadworks. The AA said it believed the new system could cover […]
Digital Photocopiers Might Digitally Store Thousands of Documents That Get Passed on at Resale
April 20th, 2010You’ll love this one. Via: CBS News: At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your […]
