Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
NSA Communication System Interfering with Garage Door Openers?
March 11th, 2010Via: San Antonio Express News: If the first complaints to City Councilman Ray Lopez’s office had come anywhere close to the truth, they probably wouldn’t have gotten much attention. I mean, “My garage door opener’s not working and I think the government’s involved”? That’s tinfoil hat territory. But the calls kept coming, and soon Lopez […]
Biometric ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
March 9th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including […]
Point Mobile Phone at Someone, See Their Twitbook
March 5th, 2010Via: Technology Review: An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a Swedish mobile software and design firm, the prototype software combines computer vision, cloud computing, facial recognition, social […]
U.S. Will Determine Who Can Board Some Canadian Flights
March 4th, 2010Via: Montreal Gazette: Starting in December, some passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without ever landing there, will only be allowed to board the aircraft once the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists. Secure Flight, the newest weapon in the U.S. war on […]
Narus Develops a Scary Sleuth for Social Media
March 4th, 2010This is a jewel encrusted Magic 8 Ball. It looks like they used some of my paranoid ramblings for inspiration, then smoked a pound of crack and channeled Lavrentiy Beria with a Ouija board to devise the feature set. Via: Computerworld: Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data […]
Microsoft Windows 7 / Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement
March 4th, 2010Via: Public Intelligence: Law Enforcement Sensitive Also On: Cryptome
Obama Signs Patriot Act Extension
February 28th, 2010Via: AP: President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday. The act, which was adopted in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, expands the government’s ability to […]
Military Allows Twitter, Other Social Media
February 28th, 2010Military personnel are no different than any other target population that needs to be monitored and tracked. Who knows what will actually be done with the surveillance data that will be collected from this… Via: Reuters: The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called “Web 2.0” sites across […]
IBM Researchers Develop Energy Efficient Method to Analyze the Quality of Data at Record Speeds
February 26th, 2010Via: IBM Press Release: Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude. This new method will greatly help enterprises extract and use the data more quickly and efficiently to […]
Senate Extends Patriot Act
February 25th, 2010Via: AP: Democrats have retreated from adding new privacy protections to the primary U.S counterterrorism law, stymied by Senate Republicans who argued the changes would weaken terror investigations. The proposed protections were cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Dashing the hopes of liberals, the Senate Wednesday night instead […]
