Μια υπόσχεση από το μεγαλύτερο ευρυζωνικό προμηθευτή στις ΗΠΑ που θα σταματούσε εις βάρος των χρηστών που ανταλλάσσουν τη μουσική και τηλεοπτικό σε απευθείας σύνδεση έχει αποτύχει να καταστείλει μια απαιτητική νομοθεσία μετακίνησης σε επίπεδο βάσης για να προστατεύσει την ίση πρόσβαση στο Διαδίκτυο.
Το Comcast, που οδηγήθηκε από τον πρόεδρο και τον κύριο ανώτερο υπάλληλο Brian Roberts, είπε ότι θα σταματούσε το δημοφιλή […]

Μια τεχνική εγκεφαλικής απεικόνισης αποκαλούμενη fMRI μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί ως «ανιχνευτής ψέματος» από τις αντιπροσωπείες αμερικανικής νοημοσύνης, παρά τις ανησυχίες σχετικά με την αναξιοπιστία και η δυνατότητα της κατάχρησης, μια οδήγηση ακαδημαϊκή έχει απαιτήσει.
Professor Jonathan Marks, a bioethicist at Pennsylvania State University in the US and a lawyer at London’s Matrix Chambers, says in an article in […]

Heiss - A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery […]

The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.
Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in […]

Failed machines same as those to be used in Pennslvania tally
BRAD BLOG Sequoia Voting Systems’ legal threats against Princeton computer science professors and
New Jersey election officials have apparently had their intended effect. The strong-arm email sent to professors Ed Felten and Andrew Appel was apparently accompanied by a two-page letter to Union County, New Jersey, […]

Among certain circles, including the American Psychological Association, we need more research on effective interrogation strategies. Many of us have been suspicious that these calls may cover the design of technologies that will create high-tech tools aiding abusive interrogations. In 2003, the APA sponsored, with the CIA and Rand Corp., a Science of Deception Workshop. […]

It’s probably no surprise, but the government’s horrendous record with data security has destroyed the public’s trust.
Only one of every ten people trust the government to handle their personal data, according to new research released today.
The DES survey also showed 93 per cent of people who were against or not sure about identity cards said […]

The growing use of biometrics to identify individuals is “insecure and in need of immediate attention,” according to an IT systems company.
Fujitsu Siemens said biometrics is increasingly being used in the business world to verify whether individuals really are who they say. By 2013, Fujitsu Siemens predicts biometric identity technology will be so widespread in […]

MOSCOW - Russia received written U.S. proposals on Wednesday which Washington hopes will allay Moscow’s concerns over plans to deploy elements of a missile shield in Europe, Russian news agencies reported.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates promised Russian counterparts at talks in Moscow on Tuesday to offer a set […]

MPs told that calls from senior police officers will not be answered.
The government has no plans to extend the DNA database despite the wishes of senior figures within the police force to do so, home office minister Tony McNulty told MPs today.
Speaking at a Home Affairs Committee inquiry, Mcnulty said he thought the balance […]

Counter-terrorism experts call it a ‘force multiplier’: an attack combining slaughter and electronic chaos. Now Britain’s security services want total access to commuters’ travel records to help them meet the threat
Millions of commuters could have their private movements around cities secretly monitored under new counter-terrorism powers being sought by the security services.
Records of journeys made […]

In Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman pulled together the disparate threads of reporting on what’s known of the NSA’s secret domestic spy program, and combined them with some of her own reporting to confirm, once again, that the NSA’s program is another incarnation of the Pentagon’s erstwhile Total Information Awareness program. Gorman also describes […]

A bill that would expand the criminal DNA database to include suspects of every violent crime appeared likely to pass a key House committee late Friday, despite a request from black lawmakers to postpone discussion.Members of the House judiciary committee debated potential changes to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposal to collect DNA from all suspects in […]

Applications for CCTV operators go through the roof
A UK company is marketing the first CCTV camera that can see objects under a person’s clothing.
The ThruVision T5000 can spot items underneath clothing at a range of up to 25 metres.
All materials emit different terahertz waves, allowing the cameras to differentiate between sugar and cocaine, for example.
Clive […]

Campaigners condemn laws that have put 1.5 million juvenilies on a database
Jamie Doward
Nearly 1.5 million 10 to 18-year-olds will have been entered on the national DNA database by this time next year, sparking claims that Britain’s youths are being criminalised and disproportionately ‘targeted’.
Campaign group Action on Rights for Children (Arch) says ‘no other country in […]