Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Nuclear-Powered Transponder for Cyborg Insect
December 12th, 2009Via: IEEE: This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), in Baltimore, Md., Cornell University engineers presented research that shows progress in powering cybernetic organisms with a radioactive fuel source. Electrical engineering associate professor Amit Lal and graduate student Steven Tin presented a prototype microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transmitter—an RF-emitting device powered by a radioactive […]
Google Researching Quantum Computing Algorithms and Hardware
December 12th, 2009Via: Google Research Blog: Over the past three years a team at Google has studied how problems such as recognizing an object in an image or learning to make an optimal decision based on example data can be made amenable to solution by quantum algorithms. The algorithms we employ are the quantum adiabatic algorithms discovered […]
Google CEO: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
December 11th, 2009Use Bing. HAHA. Oh sure. Via: Ars: Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft’s search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “I think judgment matters,” said Schmidt. “If […]
U.S. Government Funding Research Into “Malintent” Detector
December 10th, 2009Future Attribute Screening Technologies: Magic 8 Ball Arts and Crafts, taken to the nth degree of absurdity and rolled up in a police state shit sandwich. Now with 25% more Grant Swindle! Enjoy your flight. Via: Alternet: This past February, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded a one-year, $2.6 million grant to the Cambridge, […]
U.S. Air Force Confirms ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Drone
December 9th, 2009Via: AFP: The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the “Beast of Kandahar,” a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed “to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to […]
Brussels Gives CIA the Power to Search UK Bank Records
December 7th, 2009Via: Times Online: THE CIA is to be given broad access to the bank records of millions of Britons under a European Union plan to fight terrorism. The Brussels agreement, which will come into force in two months’ time, requires the 27 EU member states to grant requests for banking information made by the United […]
Telco and ISP Lawful Interception (Spying) Guides
December 7th, 2009Via: Cryptome: yahoo-spy.pdf Yahoo Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cox-spy.pdf Cox Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-ameritech-spy.pdf SBC-Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 sbc-lea-spy.pdf SBC Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 ameritech-spy.pdf Ameritech Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cingular-spy.pdf Cingular Lawful Spying Guide December 2, 2009 cricket-spy.pdf Cricket Lawful Spying Guide […]
Google Expands Tracking to Logged Out Users
December 6th, 2009Via: Tech Radar: Anyone who’s a regular Google search user will know that the only way to avoid the company tracking your online activities is to log out of Gmail or whatever Google account you use. Not any more. As of last Friday, even searchers who aren’t logged into Google in any way have their […]
Britain: Cash Prizes for Catching CCTV Criminals
December 5th, 2009Via: BBC: There are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain watching our every move. In London, there are more CCTV cameras than any other city in the world with one camera for every eight Londoners. But as victims of crime have found to their cost, catching criminals on camera is dependent on the equipment being […]
FCC Now Planning “All-IP” Phone Transition
December 5th, 2009Via: Ars: The writing is on the wall for old school circuit-switched phone networks, and the world is going all-IP. Now, the FCC is gathering data to guide the next major transition of the country’s communications network.
