Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
U.S. Army: “Teams of Air-and Ground-Based Autonomous Agents Operating Mission-to-Mission with No Soldier Intervention”
April 27th, 2021Search and rescue. *wink* Via: U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory: The future battlefield will rely on teams of air-and ground-based autonomous agents operating mission-to-mission with no Soldier intervention. Army researchers have developed a unique approach that allows a rotary wing unmanned air vehicle to land on a moving unmanned ground vehicle without the aid […]
Pentagon Gave Control of Millions of IP Addresses to Florida Shell Company
April 24th, 2021Via: Kentik: Last month, astute contributors to the NANOG listserv highlighted the oddity of massive amounts of DoD address space being announced by what appeared to be a shell company. While a BGP hijack was ruled out, the exact purpose was still unclear. Until yesterday when the Department of Defense provided an explanation to reporters […]
Digital Yuan Can Be Turned Off Like A Light Switch
April 22nd, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: As the WSJ reported, “the money itself is programmable. Beijing has tested expiration dates to encourage users to spend it quickly, for times when the economy needs a jump start.” That’s just the start. … As Bloomberg details, instead of challenging U.S. dollar dominance and neutralizing sanctions, “the digital yuan appears potentially more […]
The Postal Service Is Running a ‘Covert Operations Program’ that Monitors Americans’ Social Media Posts
April 21st, 2021Via: Yahoo News: The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts, including those about planned protests, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News. The details of the surveillance effort, known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, have not […]
DARPA Is Working On COVID Vaccine, Implantable Microchip To Detect Virus
April 13th, 2021Via: Summit News: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a COVID vaccine that will work on all variants and has developed an implantable microchip that it says will continuously monitor the human body for signs of the virus. Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician heading up DARPA’s […]
Australia Considering Requiring ID to Access To Facebook, Twitter, Tinder
April 12th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: The Australian government is mulling a proposal which would require citizens to provide at least two forms of identification if they want to use social media, under the guise of ‘battling online bullying and more easily report users to authorities. Under the guise of preventing online bullying, the Morrison government’s plan would require […]
The Military Origins of Facebook
April 12th, 2021Via: Unlimited Hangout: Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network. … Because of the […]
Your ‘Smart Home’ Is Watching – And Possibly Sharing Your Data with the Police
April 7th, 2021Via: Guardian: You may have a roommate you have never met. And even worse, they are nosy. They track what you watch on TV, they track when you leave the lights on in the living room, and they even track whenever you use a key fob to enter the house. This is the reality of […]
Tim Cook Wants Americans To Be Able To Vote On Their iPhones
April 6th, 2021“And so why not?” Here you go, Tim. Get comfortable, you’ve got a lot of reading to do. Reasons Not To Use Apple Who Controls Your Computer? (And How to Make Sure It’s You) A Defensive Computing Checklist Via: Daily Mail: “We do our banking on phones. We have our health data on phones. We […]
The Truth About ‘Vaccine Passports’
April 6th, 2021Via: Paul Watson:
