Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Intelligence Centers Tap Into Personal Databases
April 2nd, 2008Via: Washington Post: Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver’s license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post. One center also has access to top-secret data systems at the CIA, the document […]
FBI Tracked King’s Every Move
April 1st, 2008Via: CNN: Hoping to prove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was under the influence of Communists, the FBI kept the civil rights leader under constant surveillance. The agency’s hidden tape recorders turned up almost nothing about communism. But they did reveal embarrassing details about King’s sex life — details the FBI was able to […]
Google Supplying Search and Collaboration Systems to U.S. Intelligence Agencies
March 31st, 2008Via: Telegraph: Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google is also providing the […]
Attorney General: Piracy Funding Terror
March 30th, 2008Please see: Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State for more context. Via: AP: Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups. In remarks to Silicon Valley executives at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey […]
ABC News Soundbite Version of NSA Intercept Story
March 26th, 2008For those of you who aren’t willing to wade through a post like, NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite, and the related documents, here is a condensed version:
Canada: Patriot Act Haunts Google Service
March 25th, 2008The price is right on the Google honeypot. Via: Globe and Mail: Google Inc. is a year into its ground-shifting strategy to change the way people communicate and work. But the initiative to reinvent the way that people use software is running headlong into another new phenomenon of the information technology age: the unprecedented powers […]
MIT Developed Microchip 10X More Energy-Efficient than Present Technology
March 23rd, 2008Sure! Clouds of NSA dust and Homeland Security e-mites. The air will be so thick with the stuff that “the terrorists” won’t be able to find their targets. Via: MIT Energy Initiative: Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have designed a new chip for portable electronics that could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient […]
Senior Republican Ratfucker from Florida Told FBI About Spitzer
March 23rd, 2008Ratfucking is an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks. It was first brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their book All the President’s Men. Ok, so now it’s official: Spitzer was taken out on purpose. I assume that any connections to Florida are related to drugs. But […]
Your Bank, a Magic 8 Ball and the Federal Government
March 21st, 2008Via: Newsweek: The Patriot Act gave the FBI new powers to snoop on suspected terrorists. In the fine print were provisions that gave the Treasury Department authority to demand more information from banks about their customers’ financial transactions. Congress wanted to help the Feds identify terrorist money launderers. But Treasury went further. It issued stringent […]
Department of Homeland Security Wants Fingerprints Taken from Foreign Travelers as They Leave the U.S.
March 18th, 2008I’m amazed that people with the resources to fly to the U.S. do so on purpose. It’s just mind boggling to me. I wonder, did foreigners go on holiday to Germany after Hitler came to power? This is an absolutely innocent question. I have no idea. I’m guessing that they did, back then, since millions […]
