Archive for March, 2012
New Samsung TVs Have Built-In HD Camera, Microphones, Face and Speech Recognition
March 22nd, 2012Here’s a bit of context that most people won’t consider when purchasing these quasi telescreens: Avi Rubin – All Your Devices Can Be Hacked: — CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher: More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to […]
MIT: A Camera that Peers Around Corners
March 21st, 2012Via: MIT: A new imaging system could use opaque walls, doors or floors as ‘mirrors’ to gather information about scenes outside its line of sight. In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup […]
French Interior Minister: Police in Armed Stand-Off with Toulouse Shooting Suspect
March 21st, 2012Update: Mohamed Merah Entered Israel, Was Investigated by Shin Bet and Released Via: Haaretz: An investigation by Israeli intelligence revealed on Monday that Mohamed Merah, the gunmen responsible for last week’s Toulouse shootings, spent time in Israel and Palestinian territories over a year and a half ago. According to the Shin Bet, Merah entered Israel […]
Flying Like a Bird [Hoax]
March 21st, 2012Gizmodo: CGI Experts Say Flying Bird Man Is Fake — Gizmag: Evidence of Human Birdwings Flying Hoax Piles Up — Via: Human Bird Wings:
Call to Examine MI5 Link to Murder of Nuclear Activist
March 20th, 2012Via: Guardian: One of Britain’s leading human rights lawyers has demanded a fresh police inquiry to establish what the British intelligence services knew about the murder of a prominent anti-nuclear campaigner. Michael Mansfield QC said new evidence meant that an independent police force should be appointed to examine enduring concerns and inconsistencies relating to the […]
Afghanistan: U.S. Soldier Involved in Massacre Recalls Little About Incident, Also a Stock Swindler [???]
March 20th, 2012Via: ABC: Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians, enlisted in the U.S. Army at the same time he was trying to avoid answering allegations he defrauded an elderly Ohio couple of their life savings in a stock fraud, according to federal documents reviewed by ABC News. “He robbed me of my […]
The One About Jim Rawles and the FBI Cookie Caper
March 20th, 2012Several people have submitted this one, and, as usual when non technical people offer technical advice on their blogs, I hold my head in my hands and ask, “When is this going to stop?” Rawles saying that using a VPN, “Will allow you to surf the Internet anonymously,” is VERY reckless. He goes on to […]
Russian Anti-Terror Troops Arrive in Syria
March 20th, 2012Ok, this isn’t going to go down the same path that Libya did. Via: ABC News: A Russian military unit has arrived in Syria, according to Russian news reports, a development that a United Nations Security Council source told ABC News was “a bomb” certain to have serious repercussions. Russia, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s […]
The Pirate Bay to Fly ‘Server Drones’ to Avoid Law Enforcement
March 20th, 2012Via: U.S. News: The world’s largest and most resilient BitTorrent site plans to redefine “cloud computing” with a plan to move at least some of its servers onto unmanned drones miles above Sweden. In a Sunday blog post, The Pirate Bay announced new “Low Orbit Server Stations” that will house the site’s servers and files […]
Dutch Roman Catholic Church ‘Castrated at Least 10 Boys’
March 20th, 2012Hmm. Maybe they should try it on the child raping priests… Via: Telegraph: At least 10 teenage boys or young men under the age of 21 were surgically castrated “to get rid of homosexuality” while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the 1950s. Evidence of the castrations has emerged amid controversy […]
