Jun 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON POST The faces of more than 120 million people are in searchable photo databases that state officials assembled to prevent driver’s-license fraud but that increasingly are used by police to identify suspects, accomplices and even innocent bystanders in a wide range of criminal investigations. The facial databases have grown rapidly in recent years ...
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Jun 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from McCLATCHY What you spend. Where you eat. Who you call. Where you travel. What you Google. What you give to charity. Recent reports of government access to records from phone companies, Internet providers and credit card companies raise anew questions of just how much other people can know about you, especially in the age ...
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Jun 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD The White House announced the opening of a new government supercomputing center in northern Maryland this week. Patricia Falcone of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) attended a ceremony to mark the occasion along with Maryland Senator Ben Cardin and various army officials: OSTP’s ...
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Jun 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON President Barack Obama’s internal directive on cyber warfare was disclosed in public last week, showing for the first time details of U.S. policies for waging both offensive and defensive digital operations by military forces and intelligence agencies. The directive, known as PPD-20, defines the use of what it terms as “defensive cyber effects ...
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Jun 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from Hillicon Valley: Major Internet companies are doubling down on their claim that they have no involvement in a secret National Security Agency surveillance program. The companies quickly issued statements denying that they knew anything about the program, called PRISM, after it was first revealed on Thursday evening, and two CEOs issued even more forceful ...
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Jun 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Possible privacy violations by Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox One have come under new scrutiny since it was revealed Thursday that the tech giant was a crucial partner in an expansive Internet surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency and involving Silicon Valley’s biggest players. One of the console’s key features is the ...
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Jun 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER The developers of a new mobile app may have just caught a break — and found a new group of potential customers — with the revelation that government is secretly snooping on Verizon cell phone users. Developers in South Africa have developed an app called Seecrypt, which they say protects cell phone ...
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Jun 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JPOST In an effort to show Israel and other ally states that it is capable of striking Iran's nuclear plants, the US has recently conducted a test of its bunker buster bomb, destroying a replica of an underground nuclear facility, Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot reported on Friday. The nuclear facility replica, that cost millions of ...
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Jun 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Background - PRISM: Top Secret NSA/Military Program Claims Direct Access To Servers Of Firms Including Google, Facebook And Apple Screenshot excerpt from Mediaite: Keep reading...
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Jun 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE Millions of Americans’ phone records are being indiscriminately collected every day by the National Security Agency (NSA), according to an alleged “top secret” court order obtained by The Guardian. The alarming discovery seems to reveal the scale of domestic surveillance under the Obama administration. The alleged order, reportedly issued in April, demands that ...
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May 31, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from YAHOO NEWS Nothing stresses out drone enthusiasts more than reading in the news that some hobbyist decided to pilot a homemade, remote-controlled helicopter drone over Alcatraz or, as in a reported case in March, test out a three-foot-wide drone near a jetliner landing at John F. Kennedy airport. “People like that make our lives more ...
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May 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from ZD Net: Throwing money at creating cyberpolice forces and technology to keep up with digital threats may not be the only tactics the U.S. will employ in the future. As a meeting between President Obama and the new president of China, Xi Jinping, draws near, former senior officials in the Obama Administration will recommend a ...
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May 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from INFOWARS Legislation pending in 31 other states The Texas legislature passed a bill this past weekend that would see a blanket ban on capturing moving or still images on private property with an unmanned drone. The legislation, House Bill 912, authored by Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, will make it a Class C misdemeanor for anyone to ...
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May 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE SUNDAY TIMES A FORMER Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and “immoral” tax avoidance scheme that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds over the past decade. Barney Jones, 34, who worked for the internet search giant between 2002 and 2006, has lifted the lid on ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GIZMODO On Friday the final piece of One World Trade Center was installed making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,776 feet and the third tallest building in the world. So this is what vertigo feels like? The footage was captured with a GoPro camera by the Port Authority of New York ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS The world's first 3D-printed handgun, The Liberator, has had its liberty taken away by the government. Plans for the working handgun were posted online Monday by Cody Wilson, founder of Defense Distributed, potentially allowing anyone with access to a 3D printer to make a firearm from plastic. The plans, which had been in ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE Defense Distributed’s Wiki-Weapons project fired the “Liberator,” its .380 handgun that was created completely with a 3D printer. The 15 of the 16 parts created using the technology took just 24 hours to print. The blueprint for the Liberator has ...
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May 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS - A new jihadi magazine set up by militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan has appealed to Muslims around the world to come up with technology to hack into or manipulate drones, describing this as one of their most important priorities. The first issue of the English-language online magazine, called "Azan", was published on May ...
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Megyn Kelly’s Fascinating Demo Of Google Glass Goes Awry When She Searches German Word For ‘Hot Dog’
May 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
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May 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from US NEWS Worried about drones spying on you? Soon, a device might be able to send you text and email alerts that let you know when a drone is nearby.A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield," a small, Wi-Fi-connected device that uses a microphone to detect a drone's "acoustic signatures" (sound ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER On Tuesday, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) announced the launch of its Domestic Drone Information Center to act as a hub for its effort to aggregate public data on unmanned aircraft systems. The impending deadline of the Federal Aviation Administration’s integration of domestic unmanned aircraft systems — more popularly ...
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Apr 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP Ron Paul's vibrant fan base is in open rebellion today over Rand Paul's reversal on domestic drone strikes. The Kentucky senator, whose famous 13-hour Senate floor filibuster did much to strengthen his ties with his father's hardcore following, told Fox Business Network on Tuesday he's OK with drone strikes on American citizens ...
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Apr 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a Senate Judiciary hearing on the Immigration Modernization Act, a bill he helped author, that visiting the U.S. southern border was a “revelation” and more drones were needed to secure it. “Look, I went to the border,” Schumer said on Tuesday. “It was a revelation to ...
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Apr 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Legislature has passed a bill limiting law enforcement agencies' use of the remotely controlled aircraft known as drones. The House unanimously approved the Senate's bill (SB 92) 117-0 on Wednesday with no debate. It now goes to Gov. Rick Scott. The governor has previously said he would sign it ...
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Apr 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL The head of Google has warned drone technology proves a serious danger to global security and privacy unless an international treaty is put into place controlling the technology fast. Eric Schmidt today said that the technology for armed unmanned planes will soon pass into the hands of terrorists posing huge security concerns across ...
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