Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Governments Using Forged SSL Certificates for Man in the Middle Attack on “Secure” Web Sessions
March 25th, 2010I don’t believe in web based email solutions that purport to provide strong encryption and/or anonymity. Who knows what their applets and servers are doing? Not me. And if they rely on SSL, well, that’s ok for buying a book online, but no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL. —The […]
WikiLeaks Indicating Their Personnel Are Under Physical Surveillance
March 25th, 2010There is a WikiLeaks tweet related to a, “Pentagon murder-coverup” that isn’t appearing in their feed, however, it does show up as an individual tweet via the permalink. It states: # WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club@sunshinepress.org It was posted at 6:43 AM Mar 22nd. The […]
And Now… Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card
March 24th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: Wired: Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another […]
Airport Device Follows Fliers’ Phones
March 23rd, 2010Via: USA Today: Today’s smartphones and PDAs could have a new use in the nation’s airports: helping passengers avoid long lines at security checkpoints. The Transportation Security Administration is looking at installing devices in airports that home in and detect personal electronic equipment. The aim is to track how long people are stuck in security […]
U.S. Information Warfare Operation Takes Down Website Used to Plan Attacks on Americans Inside Iraq; The Website Was Set Up and Run by CIA and Saudi Intelligence
March 21st, 2010Via: Washington Post: By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom. “We knew we were going to be forced to shut […]
U.S. Forest Service Admits Putting Surveillance Cameras on Public Lands
March 19th, 2010Via: Island Packet: Last month, Herman Jacob took his daughter and her friend camping in the Francis Marion National Forest. While poking around for some firewood, Jacob noticed a wire. He pulled on it and followed it to a video camera and antenna. The camera didn’t have any markings identifying its owner, so Jacob took […]
Waihopai Three Acquitted
March 19th, 2010On a gut level, I’m glad that the Waihopai three were acquitted. I find New Zealand’s subservient participation in the AUSUSUKs military adventures and surveillance fetishes repellent. On a logical level, though, this appears to indicate that if an accused party can convince a jury that they were acting in the interests of the “greater […]
Experiment Allows Scientists to Identify Which of Three Seven Second Video Clips Test Subjects Are Thinking About
March 15th, 2010Thought reading machine? You definitely wouldn’t know it from reading many of the headlines that have been written about this story, but the answer is no, it’s not a thought reading machine. Eleanor Maguire, one of the researchers, said, “We are not at the point of being able to put people in a scanner and […]
Placing the New Zealand Internet Filter Story in Perspective
March 15th, 2010I rarely need to do this, but please stop submitting this story. Dozens of you guys think I have somehow missed this. I didn’t. Why didn’t I post it? First of all, given everything that’s out in the open about what governments are doing on the Internet, is this story even relevant for Cryptogon readers? […]
Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
March 15th, 2010Via: Wired: Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting. Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of […]
