Arphid Watch: Mythbusters and RFID | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
Terrific speech by the godlike Adam Savage here; he’s in his element surrounded by these hacker scofflaws.
Snoop software makes surveillance a cinch – tech – 23 August 2008 – New Scientist Tech
Now German electronics company Siemens has gone a step further, developing a complete “surveillance in a box” system called the Intelligence Platform, designed for security services in Europe and Asia. It has already sold the system to 60 countries.
Editorial – A New Rush to Spy – Editorial – NYTimes.com
According to members of Congress, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is preparing to give the F.B.I. broad new authority to investigate Americans — without any clear basis for suspicion that they are committing a crime.
Slashdot | Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy?
What kind of influence has being an IT security professional had on your general attitude towards life? What helps you stay out of pessimism and cynicism? Is protecting existing things really as good as building new ones?”
The Secret Room: EFF Designer’s Cartoon on Illegal Spying | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I chose as my subject the NSA’s “secret room” at AT&T’s Folsom Street facility. As part of the Bush administration’s massive and illegal spying program, the communications of millions of ordinary Americans are illegally intercepted and copied via fiber-optic splitter, and diverted into this secret room, which is controlled by the NSA.
