Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
A Peek at Homeland Security’s Files on Travelers
January 7th, 2009HAHA This guy was surprised that his DHS file noted the IPs from which his ticket purchasing sessions occurred??? * Pfft! * He should ask Them to send over his MAIN CORE file and see how well that goes. Via: Newsweek: The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. […]
I Know You’re Listening
January 2nd, 2009hehe Via: xkcd:
UK: Private Firm May Track All Email and Calls
January 2nd, 2009Via: Guardian: The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary. A cabinet decision to put the management of […]
SSL CERTIFICATES SIGNED WITH MD5 AUTHORITATIVELY BROKEN
December 31st, 2008“…no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL.” —The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity * Chortling sounds * Via: CNET: BERLIN–A key piece of Internet technology that banks, e-commerce sites, and financial institutions rely on to keep transactions safe suffers from a serious security vulnerability, an international team of researchers announced […]
NFL Encourages Fans to Send Text Messages to Security Staff to Report Troublemakers
December 30th, 2008Via: USA Today: Count Washington Redskins season-ticket holder Rick Cable as a big supporter of the NFL’s new Fan Code of Conduct. During the Redskins’ 23-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Nov. 3 at FedEx Field just outside Washington, Cable says, an obnoxious Steelers fan kept waving a “Terrible Towel” in the 47-year-old Cable’s […]
UK: CCTV Cameras and Microphones Spy on Children as Young as Four
December 30th, 2008Via: Telegraph: The surveillance equipment is in use in around 85 primary and secondary schools and colleges across the country. Classwatch, the company behind the system, says it is being used as a way to monitor children who are disrupting lessons. The firm said the equipment, which is sold with evidence bags approved by the […]
Oregon Moving Ahead on Maniac Fascist, GPS Enabled Mileage Tax
December 29th, 2008Via: Democrat Herald: A year ago, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced it had demonstrated that a new way to pay for roads — via a mileage tax and satellite technology — could work. Now Gov. Ted Kulongoski says he’d like the legislature to take the next step. As part of a transportation-related bill he […]
Thomas M. Tamm: Whistleblower
December 16th, 2008What Thomas Tamm has to say is interesting, but it seems like chicken scratch compared to what Russell Tice was trying to tell Congress. Via: Newsweek: In the spring of 2004, Tamm had just finished a yearlong stint at a Justice Department unit handling wiretaps of suspected terrorists and spies—a unit so sensitive that employees […]
Australia: Lawyers Given Permission to Serve Debtors with Default Judgement Through Facebook
December 16th, 2008Via: Herald Sun: TWO friends who defaulted on a six-figure loan are about to find out through their Facebook page a mortgage lender’s lawyers are on their trail. In an Australian and possibly world first, two lawyers have won a court order to allow them to serve a default judgment through Facebook. After failing to […]
Australia: Private Intelligence Company Monitors Activists Online for Police
November 26th, 2008Via: The Australian: A PRIVATE intelligence company has been engaged by police to secretly monitor internet and email use by activist and protest groups, a report says. The company was hired to monitor and report on the internet activities of anti-war campaigners, animal rights activists, environmental campaigners, and other protest groups, Fairfax Media reported. It […]
