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$15 phone, 3 minutes all that’s needed to eavesdrop on GSM call
Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress in Berlin on Tuesday, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop...
Google, target of worldwide surveillance and takedown requests
Google continued to demonstrate its commitment to transparency on Monday by releasing fresh statistics on the number of times it has disclosed private user data to a government, or removed content at government request. The country-by-country report covers the second...
GE Holographic Storage: The 500GB Disc That Could Record at Blu-Ray Speed
GE Developed a Faster Holographic Disc Format In 2011, General Electric announced a significant breakthrough in holographic data storage technology. At an IEEE symposium in Hawaii, the company revealed a new micro-holographic material that was 100 times more sensitive...
2011 E. Coli Superbug: Evidence of Bioengineered Antibiotic Resistance
In June 2011, a virulent strain of E. coli swept across Europe, killing 22 people and sickening over 2,153 others with severe symptoms including bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome, a condition that causes kidney failure. The outbreak was eventually traced...
FBI Spyware CIPAV: How the Bureau Hacked Suspects Through Their Browsers
The FBI CIPAV: A Digital Surveillance Tool The FBI developed a computer surveillance program known as the Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, or CIPAV, designed to covertly monitor suspects through their own machines. Court documents from the Josh...
Engineer Behind Iranian Saucer Technology Comes Forward
Nuclear Engineer, Mehran Tavakoli Keshe, has came forward as being the developer of the technology being used in Iran’s new “flying saucer.” His technology is claimed to harness magnetism and gravity to allow travel throughout the solar system and beyond. On March...
Encryption, Warrants And The FBI
Encryption, Warrants And The FBI Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing focused on law enforcement surveillance of modern Internet services. Although both the New York Times and CNET have stories on the hearing, I don't think either publication...
Egypt how companies help the government spy on activists – Global Voices Advocacy
One of the demands of the Egyptian revolution was to demolish one of the well-known security services for torture, grave human rights violations and spying on activists which is the State Security Investigations (SSI) and to have its officers set onto trials. Few...
DNA Can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies
by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf Russian DNA Discoveries: Original version THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as...
Deep Packet Spying Breaches Gmail and All Security
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:37:56 -0500 From: Marsh Ray <marsh[at]extendedsubset.com> To: Discussion of cryptography and related <cryptography[at]randombit.net> Subject: [cryptography] Another data point on SSL "trusted" root CA reliability (S Korea) Been...
DARPA and NSA Recruit Hackers for Cybersecurity: Inside the Pentagon Outreach Campaign
DARPA Turns to Hacker Community for Help Securing Government Networks In a move that revealed both desperation and pragmatism, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency convened a cybersecurity conference and extended invitations to an unlikely audience: hackers....
JP Morgan Uses Field-Programmable Gate Array Supercomputer to Cut Credit Risk Analysis from 8 Hours to 12 Seconds
JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities developed by Maxeler Technologies. The investment bank worked with HPC solutions...
Confirmed Government employing Internet Trolls Shills and Agents for Facebook and YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhlsegIE9a4&feature=player_embedded
Scientists Induce Schizophrenia in a Neural Network to Study Delusional Thinking
Neural Network Taught to Exhibit Schizophrenic Behavior In 2011, computer scientists at the University of Texas at Austin conducted a remarkable experiment: they deliberately induced symptoms resembling schizophrenia in a neural network, causing the system to generate...
Implantable Microchips: From Pet Tracking to Human Surveillance
FDA Approval of Implantable Microchips In the early 2010s, the Food and Drug Administration approved the VeriChip, a subcutaneous microchip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical applications. Manufactured by Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Florida,...
CarrierIQ – How it Works
CarrierIQ This information is written to the best of my knowledge using publicly available resources. No security was bypassed to obtain anything marked confidential, and Carrier IQ made no effort to protect said documents. You can take the Carrier IQ training...
Brazilian police to use ‘Robocop-style’ glasses at World Cup
Brazilian police will use futuristic 'Robocop-style' glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify and root out troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup. Military Police officials from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have been given demonstrations of how the...
Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for...
Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We’ve Ever Seen
A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untraceable and un-hackable. Folks were using it to buy and sell drugs online, support content they liked and worst of all -- gasp! -- play poker.Bitcoin is a P2P currency that...
Anonymous Arrests Aaron Swartz Indictment and the 2011 Hacker Crackdown
July 19, 2011: Anonymous Arrests and the Aaron Swartz Indictment Two major cybercrime stories collided on July 19, 2011, marking one of the most consequential days in hacking-related law enforcement. The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled charges against sixteen...
French woman sues Opus Dei, claims brainwashing
A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told AFP Tuesday. The statue of the founder of Opus Dei, St Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer is blessed...
Anonymous Service – The Ultimate International Career
ANONYMOUS Service (a CIA Job Post 'Spoof") The Ultimate International Career The Internet's ANONYMOUS LEGION is the front-line source of ANONYMOUS information on critical international developments, from hacking and weapons of mass distraction to information warfare...
Anonymous releases counter-hacking manual
Anonymous has returned to the forefront of the hacker war against authority with the release of a "counter-cyberterrorism" manual, along with data on the FBI. With Lulz Security now on permanent hiatus, fellow hacker group Anonymous has filled in the gap with the...
ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind
Obeying the rules is up to you Outside of a handful of the most permissive corners of the internet, absolute uncensored freedom of speech isn't seen as a sacred right. If an Anon says or does something to offend the powers that be, that is their own fault. The result...
Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures
All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see...
Prophets Of Doom – Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jnKbwwEOwwc
Awake and Alive: Artificial Eyes
artificialeyes.tv is an Istanbul / Vienna based project of video artist and software developer Michael Parenti, aka exiledsurfer artificialeyes.tv's aim is to bring people closer to the art form of Live Video Mixing (known as "VJ'ing") through the creation,...
HBGary: A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed by Anonymous
Hacked emails from security contractor HBGary Federal reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on web users In February 2011, the hackers' collective Anonymous released 70,000 emails from security contractor HBGary Federal, which revealed that CEO...
A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Archimedes (ca. 235 bc) b. Syracuse Concerning levers Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth. Asimov, Isaac (1920-1992) b. Petrovichi, Russia. (With reference to a correspondent) The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact...
50 Days of Mayhem: How LulzSec Changed Hacktivism Forever
LulzSec didn't invent hacktivism, let alone hacking. But the small crew of publicity-hungry digital pirates may have ushered in a new era for both as they merrily sailed the cyber-seas for 50 days of mayhem that became perhaps the biggest tech story of the first half...