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Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, we come from the Internet, the new home of Mind.
On behalf of the future, we ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Moar here:
http://rezn8d.net/2012/03/02/a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace/Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, we come from... more
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Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS World conferences between 2006 and 2009. ISS world is a surveillance trade show known to industry insiders as ‘The Wiretappers’ Ball’. This project is part of our Big Brother Incorporated investigation into the sale of surveillance technology. Read more…
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ISS World is attended by brutal dictatorships and Western democracies alike. Governments and companies from all over the world meet, mingle, buy and sell – we want to know who’s dealing with who. Many countries publish government spending, which you can use in conjunction with our data and the WikiLeaks Spyfiles to dig around. Take direct action by submitting Freedom of Information requests or writing to your elected representative. A little data goes a long way in this sort of investigation. Join our discussion list to be kept up to date and share your findings.
Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS World conferences between 2006 and 2009. ISS world is a surveillance trade show known to industry insiders as ‘The Wiretappers’ Ball’. This project is part of our Big Brother Incorporated investigation into the sale of surveillance technology. Read more…
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ISS World is attended by brutal dictatorships and Western democracies alike. Governments and companies from all over the world meet, mingle, buy and sell – we want to know who’s dealing with who. Many countries publish government spending, which you can use in conjunction with our data and the WikiLeaks Spyfiles to dig around. Take direct action by submitting Freedom of Information requests or writing to your elected representative. A little data goes a long way in this sort of investigation. Join our discussion list to be kept up to date and share your findings.Surveillance Who’s Who exposes the government agencies that attended six ISS... more
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The freedom of our internet is at stake, 1984 is here, Big Brother is watching you, tracking your every move, and he is slowly dissolving your connections to uncensored content. Google's actions have prompted me to write a "State of the Internet" address regarding our current Orwellian existence.
In addition to Google's new privacy concerns, this page will seek to document any programs, software, and companies or organizations that help fund, effect, or support censorship and/or tracking on the internet; as well as ways to protect yourself and browse anonymously online. This page will be updated from time to time with no notice.The freedom of our internet is at stake, 1984 is here, Big Brother is watching you,... more
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Well, this is scary. Researchers have created software that uses public information to ID basically anybody just walking down the street. Stalkers, rejoice. Everyone else, time to find a comfortable mask that you'll never take off.
Using facial recognition software and database made of publicly accessible photos (profile photos from Facebook and LinkedIn that don't even require logging in to view, for example), researchers from Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University set up on a busy college campus and snapped pictures of willing passers by.
They were able to positively identify a 31 percent of these strangers in seconds. They used the same database of photos and were able to cross-reference those faces with faces in other databases—namely those anonymous dating sites (where users use pseudonyms to protect their privacy). It worked again. In fact, they were able to positively identify 10 percent of the dating site's members.
In other words, you could be walking down the street or sitting in a bar, and some creep could surreptitiously take your picture, and with that info alone, he/she could find out your name, where you work, whether you're single, and a whole lot more. The scary thing is that the results are not coming through one service that can be shut down, it's aggregated from your public information. They have a proof of concept working in a mobile device, and while the tech is somewhat nascent right now, it is rapid improving, which means it could rapidly become more dangerous. After all, you can change your name and ID numbers, but changing your face—which is publicly viewable every time you go outside and is a unique identifier—is much, much harder.
A short FAQ of the study's findings can be found here, and it makes for some interesting, if unsettling, reading. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/face-recognition-study-FAQ/
http://gizmodo.com/5828282/your-facebook-photos-can-identify-you-in-real-lifeWell, this is scary. Researchers have created software that uses public information to... more
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This commercial is just so wrong it’s funny.
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The Guardian compares the technology to a similar creation placed into the Minority Report movie, where an advertising board shouted advice to the main character.
Though there is a slight difference, since the billboard with built in facial recognition software will recognise your gender and age and use the information to show the viewer a relevant advert. There is a reported 85-90% accuracy with the billboards tech.
"The ad panels have so far caused little concern in Japan, where there is less sensitivity to big business keeping tabs on citizens; but NEC now plans to introduce them abroad, and western consumers may be more resistant."-Guardian
In my opinion I curious to see how it takes to match the tech with facebook to create the personalised version seen in the film.The Guardian compares the technology to a similar creation placed into the Minority... more
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This is some kind of awesome face recognition styled toy by the Iron Man 2 promotional team. Download a simple add on warm up the web cam and then watch as the Iron Man and War Machine mask transforms onto your face, and follows your every moment.
There is also a view from inside the mask feature too. It was designed and created by PPC interactive.This is some kind of awesome face recognition styled toy by the Iron Man 2 promotional... more
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GSM cellular networks in the US and Europe use the A5/1 stream cipher meant to ensure cellular calls cannot be listened into by unauthorized parties monitoring radio traffic. However, the guarantee of privacy is no longer ensured. New attack techniques were unveiled at the Hacking at Random conference in The Netherlends which would allow an attacker to decrypt cellular calls made over a GSM network. The attacker only needs the new software and about $500 in radio monitoring equipment.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/11/cell-phone-tapping-gsm-encryption-hacked/GSM cellular networks in the US and Europe use the A5/1 stream cipher meant to ensure... more
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After the leak of Microsoft COFFEE into the wild, a tool emerges that will supposedly make life very difficult for a forensic investigator using COFFEE. The tool is titled DECAF and is freely available, although not open source. The tool does not need to be installed, and when configured in ‘LockDown Mode’ offers a set of Counter-Forensics functions upon detecting a COFFEE process running on the computer. The following options Counter-Forensics functions are available…
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/06/decaf-counter-forensics-coffee-tool/After the leak of Microsoft COFFEE into the wild, a tool emerges that will supposedly... more
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In March of 1994 some spelunkers exploring an extensive cave system in northern Spain poked their lights into a small side gallery and noticed two human mandibles jutting out of the sandy soil. The cave, called El Sidrón, lay in the midst of a remote upland forest of chestnut and oak trees in the province of Asturias, just south of the Bay of Biscay. Suspecting that the jawbones might date back as far as the Spanish Civil War, when Republican partisans used El Sidrón to hide from Franco's soldiers, the cavers immediately notified the local Guardia Civil.
But when police investigators inspected the gallery, they discovered the remains of a much larger—and, it would turn out, much older—tragedy.
Within days, law enforcement officials had shoveled out some 140 bones, and a local judge ordered the remains sent to the national forensic pathology institute in Madrid. By the time scientists finished their analysis (it took the better part of six years), Spain had its earliest cold case. The bones from El Sidrón were not Republican soldiers, but the fossilized remains of a group of Neanderthals who lived, and perhaps died violently, approximately 43,000 years ago. The locale places them at one of the most important geographical intersections of prehistory, and the date puts them squarely at the center of one of the most enduring mysteries in all of human evolution.
The Neanderthals, our closest prehistoric relatives, dominated Eurasia for the better part of 200,000 years. During that time, they poked their famously large and protruding noses into every corner of Europe, and beyond—south along the Mediterranean from the Strait of Gibraltar to Greece and Iraq, north to Russia, as far west as Britain, and almost to Mongolia in the east. Scientists estimate that even at the height of the Neanderthal occupation of western Europe, their total number probably never exceeded 15,000. Yet they managed to endure, even when a cooling climate turned much of their territory into something like northern Scandinavia today—a frigid, barren tundra, its bleak horizon broken by a few scraggly trees and just enough lichen to keep the reindeer happy.
By the time of the tragedy at El Sidrón, however, the Neanderthals were on the run, seemingly pinned down in Iberia, pockets of central Europe, and along the southern Mediterranean by a deteriorating climate, and further squeezed by the westward spread of anatomically modern humans as they emerged from Africa into the Middle East and beyond. Within another 15,000 years or so, the Neanderthals were gone forever, leaving behind a few bones and a lot of questions. Were they a clever and perseverant breed of survivors, much like us, or a cognitively challenged dead end? What happened during that period, roughly 45,000 to 30,000 years ago, when the Neanderthals shared some parts of the Eurasian landscape with those modern human migrants from Africa? Why did one kind of human being survive, and the other disappear?
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/neanderthals/hall-textIn March of 1994 some spelunkers exploring an extensive cave system in northern Spain... more
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Security of biometric ID’s like biometric passports is a very frequent topic of discussion and we all know there are issues. But most of those issues are related to encryption, materials and generally anything that requires a lot of technical knowledge. Here is an example of the possibility to create a fake Biometric ID…
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/12/22/simplified-analysis-forging-a-biometric-id/Security of biometric ID’s like biometric passports is a very frequent topic of... more
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