Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Law Enforcement is Tracking Americans’ Cell Phones in Real Time Without Warrants
February 23rd, 2010In summary, my thesis was that the NSA operation that Tice was involved with was related to tracking individual Americans, on the ground, in real time, using the mobile phone networks. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance If this is happening on an almost indiscriminate basis with law enforcement cases, how wide of a […]
Prisons Turn to the Wind for Energy
February 19th, 2010It’s clean. It’s green. It’s fascism. More: Clean, Green U.S. Prison Camp: The Guantanamo Naval Base Wind Farm Via: Christian Science Monitor: When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic and landed at Plymouth Rock, it was the wind blowing into their ships’ sails that pushed them across the water. That power of the wind will soon […]
Britain: Police UAVs Might be Armed with Non Lethal Weapons
February 11th, 2010Via: Wired: Police forces all over the UK will soon be able to draw on unmanned aircraft from a national fleet, according to Home Office plans. Last month it was revealed that modified military aircraft drones will carry out surveillance on everyone from protesters and antisocial motorists to fly-tippers, and will be in place in […]
What Would Be The Odds?
February 9th, 2010I happen to know the name of the person mentioned in the story below. However, a New Zealand blogger is currently facing charges for releasing the name, so I will not publish it here. If you’re reading Cryptogon, you’re more cunning than most, so I’m confident that, if you want to know the name, you […]
FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*
February 7th, 2010I’m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don’t understand why you find it noteworthy. With all the posts I’ve done on network surveillance, I’m getting story submissions about retention of URLs? Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up. It […]
Police Want Point and Click Access to Private Email
February 4th, 2010Via: Cnet: Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They’re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with […]
Britain: Police Plan to Use Military-Style Spy Drones
January 24th, 2010Via: Guardian: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones, is […]
Cancer Risks Debated for X-Ray Body Scanners
January 10th, 2010Via: New York Times: The plan for broad use of X-ray body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers’ clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation to millions of people — a process some experts say is certain to result in a few additional cancer deaths. […]
Houston Police Department UAV
January 9th, 2010TSA Agent at LAX: “I am god, I’m in charge.”
January 8th, 2010Via: NBC: They are the first line of defense in airport security but two troubling incidents involving TSA agents at LAX are raising concerns. A TSA agent was arrested on January 3rd in Terminal One at LAX, a source told NBCLA. He had just gotten off duty and was behaving erratically, saying, “I am god, […]
