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Entries on this site with 'surveillance'
- More securicams in northern Virginia.
Somehow, I doubt that they have been placed there solely to monitor the speed of people driving down route 7. It would be interesting to determine if they are hardwired in
- Lower Marion School District's stash of surveillance photos found.
The investigation into employees of the Lower Marion School District continues apace , and some highly disturbing things have been discovered. Evidence has been found that
- Battlegoth makeup versus facial recognition software...
In the halcyon days of the 80's, a fairly common trope of cyberpunk was people (usually background characters but occasionally a main character ) wearing battlegoth makeup
- Lower Merion quietly places two of their IT staff on leave.
I've been following the surreptitious webcam surveillance saga of Lower Merion School District since the story first broke in February, and some interesting news has come
- More from the Lower Merion School District.
A couple of days ago word hit the newswires that a high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania had been using the laptops issued to its students to spy on them . Word's gott
- Saloncon, unashamed gamers, and a beacon in your pocket.
Word has come down from the state of New Jersey that Saloncon, the first known neo-victorian convention in the United States, is no more . Following the tribulations of 20
- High school issues laptops, uses them to spy on students.
An article hit Boing Boing today that raised the hackles on the back of my neck as I read it. The Lower Merion School District just outside of Philadelphia received a gran
- Boston police fight back against cellphone recordings.
People recording what is going on around them is a relatively new development in North American history. One supposes that you could trace it back to the beating of Rodney
- Just when you thought keeping tabs on your kids couldn't get any more creepy.
Taser has become one of the more notorious companies in the United States. Best known for it's (technically) non-lethal electrostun weapons, the name of which has become s
- Everybody :-) - Big Brother's watching (your blog)!
An outfit called In-Q-Tel in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 1999, is known to be a semi-independent but private aspect of the US intelligence community which invests in t
- Following someone around isn't that easy.
Like many people today, I have a GPS ( Global Positioning System ) navigation system mounted semipermanantly in my car to help me get around when I'm out and about. Every
- Maybe I should write about things other than myself for a while.
If you're involved in the retrocomputing or PC history scenes, chances are you've heard of double-sided floppy disks that are formatted for one system on side A and anothe
- It seems that the one book they read was 1984.
George W. Bush, while at NSA headquarters yesterday, asked the US Congress to turn the NSA program that allows any and all communications to be monitored without a warrant
- Cellular PDAs with RATs in the datawalls.
RATs meaning remote access tools , that is. Malware that conceals itself in a system and lets someone on the outside with the right application and credentials connect and
- ADVISE - The TIA Project Strikes Back.
Back in 2003, the US Government formed a project called TIA - Total Information Awareness, with a logo that made about half of the country cringe in fear, anger, and disgu
- For the system administrator or parent that has everything, how about a RAT?
'Remote access tool', that is - a little beastie (usually considered malware, though there are legit incarnations of this sort of software) that hides itself inside a work
- Systems cracker stalks pedophiles.
Brad Willman, known to the underground as Omni-Potent, has stepped forward after three years of secretly stalking online pedophiles and tipping off law enforcement . His p
- First Europe, now the US?
Another bill's been put into circulation that I think everyone should know about. Representative Lamar Smith of Texas has put forth legislation that would require every IS
- Well, the watchword of the day seems to be 'ow', as in "Ow, ow, ow, dammit!"
As part of my New Year's resolution to get in better shape I've started to work out twice a week, and discovered once again that my body isn't as young as I wish it was. I
- Archive: 20070109
Here's an article just in from the "In other news, fire is hot and water is wet" department: A study shows that studies funded by companies tend to frame the products of t
- Radiomedicine trips covert radiation detectors at public events.
Something that a lot of people might not know: Radiation detection equipment is being deployed more and more in government facilities and major public events (such as the
- It's now 41 degrees Farenheit, and trying to rain. What gives?!
This morning, after arriving at the Metro station closest to my office and climbing the escalator (I need exercise, what can I say?) to the platform closest the street, I
- Warrantless wiretaps now have a court overseeing them.
George W. Bush has deceed that all warrantless wiretaps now have to go through an independent court for review before they can be enacted. Congress seems to be of two mind
- US government using credit history pulls without court authorisation.
I don't really see how this is much of a surprise: The Pentagon and CIA have been pulling the credit records of US citizens without telling them. . Frankly, this is SOP th
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