Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
UK Plans to Create Database Containing Details About Every Telephone Call, Email and Internet Session
May 20th, 2008Via: Times Online: A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward […]
China’s All-Seeing Eye
May 19th, 2008The one is a bit long, but very worth reading, especially if you liked/were terrified by, The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE. If you plan on reading this, click through to the main story because my excerpt includes the grim spoiler ending. Via: Rolling Stone: China today, epitomized by Shenzhen’s transition from mud to megacity in […]
The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE
May 18th, 2008In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer I’m going to […]
Securing Your Notebook Against U.S. Customs
May 15th, 2008Via: Guardian: Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I […]
Soviet Republic of Britain: Town Halls Should Map Race and Religion to Identify ‘Tension Hotspots’
May 13th, 2008Via: DailyMail: More than 10 million people are to have their everyday disputes, their politics and their business lives checked by new “tension monitoring” committees. The committees are to be set up to try to cut the risk of riots or disturbances in the aftermath of terrorist outrages or outbreaks of local racial trouble. They […]
Texas: “In-School Suspension Program” Uses GPS Tracking Systems Attached to Students
May 13th, 2008You’ve got to hand it to the New York Times. This one goes down smooth. The GPS system is the greatest thing since sliced bread. It tracks, it traces, it slices, it dices, it gets results, it saves lives. And it saves money! Who needs jail for the kiddies when an “in-school suspension program” is […]
Cell Phone Spying: Is Your Life Being Monitored?
May 6th, 2008Forget whatever the intelligence agencies are or aren’t doing for a moment. This article is about surveillance tools that are available to the public. Via: Geeks Are Sexy: It connects you to the world, but your cell phone could also be giving anyone from your boss to your wife a window into your every move. […]
UK: Billions of Pounds Wasted on Surveillance Cameras, Senior Cop Calls Program “Utter Fiasco”
May 6th, 2008Via: Times Online: Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer piloting a new database. Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville said it was a “fiasco” that only 3 per cent of street robberies in London were solved using […]
Air Marshals Grounded by Government’s No-Fly List
May 1st, 2008HA. Via: Washington Times: False identifications based on a terrorist no-fly list have for years prevented some federal air marshals from boarding flights they are assigned to protect, according to officials with the agency, which is finally taking steps to address the problem. Federal Air Marshals (FAMs) familiar with the situation say the mix-ups, in […]
Activists Collapse Radome at ECHELON Intercept Facility in New Zealand
April 30th, 2008First, a technical point. The Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), Air Marshal Bruce Ferguson, said that the purpose of the radomes is simply to protect the dishes from the weather. This statement is a lie by omission. If the azimuth and elevation of a surveillance dish are known, the satellite that is […]
