Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Government Wants Three Days to Issue Permission to Fly
October 14th, 2007Most Americans must be thinking something like, “Well, at least they’re not pointing the Active Denial Weapon at me right now. My TV works. Life is great.” Via: Register: Under new rules proposed by the Transport Security Administration (TSA) (pdf), all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the United […]
Qwest Refused to Participate with Some Aspects of NSA Surveillance Program
October 11th, 2007Again, there’s something else that we’re not aware of yet. Something besides the run-of-the-mill surveillance. From the article about Qwest article below: Nacchio planned to demonstrate at trial that he had a meeting on Feb. 27, 2001, at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., to discuss a $100 million project. According to the documents, another […]
Micro UAV Surveillance at Antiwar Protests
October 10th, 2007Via: Washington Post: Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month. “I heard someone say, ‘Oh my god, look at those,’ ” the college senior from New York recalled. “I look up and I’m like, ‘What the hell is that?’ They looked kind of like dragonflies or little […]
Enemy Collaborator Democrats to Extend Wiretap Powers
October 9th, 2007Duh. Via: New York Times: Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency. Administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened […]
Infrared Scans for DC Drivers
October 4th, 2007Full throttle absurdity. Via: Washington Post: Are drivers ready to be scanned like groceries at the supermarket? The answer will help determine whether Washington area commuters use a planned network of high-occupancy and toll lanes, which will start to take shape next year when an expansion of the Capital Beltway is to begin. The lanes […]
UK: More Big Brother Phone Surveillance
October 2nd, 2007Via: Daily Mail: Officials from the top of Government to lowly council officers will be given unprecedented powers to access details of every phone call in Britain under laws coming into force tomorrow. The new rules compel phone companies to retain information, however private, about all landline and mobile calls, and make them available to […]
Orgiastic Spending on Technologies of Political Control
September 27th, 2007Via: Reuters: Americans are facing a brave new world of post-September 11 technology marvels that could soon find their way into billions of dollars of projected homeland security spending. Gee-whiz know-how — from swarms of tiny airborne sensors to ever-sharper satellite imagery — is being developed by companies chasing potentially lucrative federal, state and local […]
Tapping Fiber is Easy
September 25th, 2007While some of the people who work aboard the U.S.S. Jimmy Carter might laugh at this, I think it’s pretty interesting. Via: Tech Republic: Copper cable has been known as the easily tapped physical transmission medium for years. Conscientious network and security managers either provided tight physical security for cabling or used fiber as an […]
New Service Eavesdrops on Internet Calls to Display Ads Based on What’s Being Talked About
September 24th, 2007HA I thought, “Who would use this?” The answer came to me seconds later: Drunk college students. They’ll have to program a cunning drunken slur filter. Via: AP: A startup has come up with a new way to make money from phone calls connected via the Internet: having software listen to the calls, then displaying […]
U.S. Government Building Extensive Travel Dossiers on Americans
September 23rd, 2007Absolutely chilling. Via: Washington Post: The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have […]
