Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
New Homeland Security Magic 8 Ball Removes Terrorists Fast! Now with 100% More WTF?
September 24th, 2008“Sorry, officer, I’ve been reading Cryptogon for so many years I thought the twitching would have stopped by now.” Via: Fox News: Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or […]
U.S. Schools Pay Classroom Informants
September 21st, 2008Via: BBC: When police armed response units pulled up at Scripps Ranch High School, it was bad news for the teenage boy carrying a replica machine gun around campus. For the student who tipped off the police, though, things were looking up. Under an incentive scheme at Scripps Ranch, a large San Diego high school, […]
And Now: The Killer Drones that Can See Through Walls
September 21st, 2008Via: Slate: Both reports focus on “detecting and identifying humans enclosed in building structures.” “Through-the-wall sensing is currently a topic of great interest to defense agencies both in the U.S. and abroad,” says the April report. “The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been active in all these fields of investigation, approaching these issues both […]
Homeland Security Wants to X-Ray Your Car… With You in It
September 17th, 2008Via: USA Today: A controversial new X-ray technology is being tested that could stop potential terrorists from blowing up a car bomb at one of the nation’s airports, homeland security officials say. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is running a test at a North Carolina ferry terminal of a 21-foot-high arch-like machine that shoots low-intensity […]
U.N. Agency Eyes Curbs on Internet Anonymity
September 14th, 2008The NSA and the Chinese government are working together, through the U.N., to draft plans for systems that would enable all Internet sessions to be authoritatively traced back to their origins. Man, if this one doesn’t get your tinfoil in a knot, nothing will. If you want to know what anonymous on the Internet actually […]
What Is Woodward’s ‘Secret Weapon’ in Iraq?
September 13th, 2008The human thermal fingerprint is a pretty strange. I have no idea if that’s it, but look at page 12 of this U.S. Special Operations Command briefing paper on Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking and Locating (CTTL). They want “battery independent” tracking devices that harvest energy from ambient RF fields, movement and wind. Via: Wired: I’m […]
French Cabinet Revolts Over Sarkozy’s Big Brother Database
September 9th, 2008Via: Times Online: President Nicolas Sarkozy faced an embarrassing split in his Cabinet today over a computer system that a new French internal intelligence service will use to spy on the private lives of millions of law-abiding citizens. Hervé Morin, the Defence Minister, broke government ranks to side with a growing revolt against Edvige, an […]
Police Can Sometimes Recover “Deleted” Information from Mobile Phones
September 9th, 2008Chip implants? Most people willingly carry their own surveillance team around in their pockets. That’s right. If you use a mobile phone, the filth can track your position on the ground in real time AND activate the microphone, turning your mobile phone into a audio bugging device. And this is all while you’re not talking […]
France: “The Electronic Bastille Is Upon Us”
September 5th, 2008Via: MSNBC / Reuters: “The Edvige database has no place in a democracy,” wrote Michel Pezet, a lawyer and former member of a body charged with protecting French citizens from electronic prying, in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper Le Monde. “There is nothing in the decree that sets limits or a framework. Whether the database […]
UK: THE GREEN STASI
September 2nd, 2008Via: Telegraph: Advertisements looking for people to sign up for the unpaid “environmental volunteer” jobs have been posted across the country in recent months. Critics said the scheme is encouraging a Big Brother society where friends and neighbours will be encouraged to “snoop” on one another. The recruitment drive follows news that the Home Office […]
