Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
Google Speakers Are Listening to More Than Just Voice Commands
August 8th, 2020Via: Protocol: Last week, Reddit user Brazedowl received a curious notification on his phone: Google was telling him that a smoke detector in his home had gone off. Brazedowl, a teacher from North Carolina who goes by Drew in real life, knew about the smoke alarm — he was at home himself and had just […]
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
August 7th, 2020Via: Wall Street Journal: A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Anomaly Six LLC a Virginia-based […]
New York City: COVID Checkpoints
August 5th, 2020Via: MarketWatch: New York City will set up checkpoints at bridges and tunnels into the five boroughs to help enforce a state-mandated quarantine order for people traveling from high-risk states. “We’ve got 35 states now that have dangerously high infection rates. There’s a lot to be concerned about,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said as he […]
Unidentified Drones Flew in Restricted Airspace Above Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant
August 3rd, 2020Via: The WarZone: Less than a year ago… a bizarre and largely undisclosed incident involving a swarm of drones occurred on successive September evenings in 2019. The location? America’s most powerful nuclear plant, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station situated roughly two dozen miles west of Phoenix, near Tonopah, Arizona. … This particular story starts […]
Bill Binney: There Was No Russian Hack
August 2nd, 2020Via: Schiller Institute: Transcript
The Panopticon Is Already Here
August 2nd, 2020Via: The Atlantic: Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Nimbus Data ExaDrive: 100TB Capacity in 3.5 Inch Form Factor, Costs $40,000
July 31st, 2020Send a few trucksloads over. And keep’em coming. Utah Data Center: The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. […]
Spies Can Eavesdrop by Watching a Light Bulb’s Vibrations
July 27th, 2020Handy for targets who don’t use smartphones. Via: Wired: The list of sophisticated eavesdropping techniques has grown steadily over years: wiretaps, hacked phones, bugs in the wall—even bouncing lasers off of a building’s glass to pick up conversations inside. Now add another tool for audio spies: Any light bulb in a room that might be […]
“Google SkinMarks Could Turn Our Bodies Into a Touchpad Using High-Tech Tattoos”
July 27th, 2020Mmm hmm. Via: TechRadar: Google has been researching the possibilities of using rub-on tattoos to transform your skin into a fully-functioning touchpad. Dubbed SkinMarks, the tattoos are packed with sensors and can be applied to curved areas of the body such as the knuckles. They aren’t as elaborate as you’d find at your local ink […]
Bank of England Debating Digital Currency Creation
July 13th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: “We are looking at the question of, should we create a Bank of England digital currency,” Bailey said Monday in a webinar event with students. “We’ll go on looking at it, as it does have huge implications on the nature of payments and society.” “I think in a few years time, we will […]
