Why gadget makers wield a ‘kill switch’

Why gadget makers wield a ‘kill switch’

Phones from Google, left, and Apple have “kill switches” built into them that allow the companies to remotely delete software. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Apple, Google and Microsoft all have kill switches built into their phone software Google has used the...
TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker

TOR Made for USG Open Source Spying Says Maker

Donate $25 for two DVDs of the Cryptome collection of files from June 1996 to the present 16 April 2011. A sends: Roger Dingledine writes that the US Navy uses Tor for open source spying: http://idtrail.org/files/Dingledine%20-%20Tor.pdf 28 March 2011. Add comments...

The Surveillance Catalog

Where governments get their toolsRandom Document Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The...
Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month

Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month

Australia will soon become one of the few countries to have controlled internet censorship. Picture: Switched On Source: National Features MOST Australian internet users will have their web access censored next month after the country’s two largest internet...
Security flaw found in feds’ digital radios

Security flaw found in feds’ digital radios

Expensive high-tech digital radios used by the FBI, Secret Service, and Homeland Security are designed so poorly that they can be jammed by a $30 children’s toy, CNET has learned. A GirlTech IMME, Mattel’s pink instant-messaging device with a miniature...

Quantum Mechanics

A graduate level course Richard Fitzpatrick Associate Professor of Physics The University of Texas at Austin     Introduction Major sources Fundamental concepts The breakdown of classical physics The polarization of photons The fundamental principles of...

Project Pegasus – Andrew D Basiago.

This is the web portal to receive news and information about Andrew D. Basiago’s quest to lobby the US government to disclose its teleportation secret so that teleportation can be adopted on a global basis to help humanity achieve planetary sustainability in the 21st...

Molecular Visualizations of DNA

Amazing CGI visualization of molecular biology’s central dogma. It shows animations of DNA coiling, replication, transcription and translation. It was created by Drew Berry of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research...