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Radical Librarianship: how ninja librarians are ensuring patrons’ electronic privacy – Boing Boing
“Librarians in Massachusetts are working to give their patrons a chance to opt-out of pervasive surveillance. Partnering with the ACLU of Massachusetts, area librarians have been teaching and taking workshops on how freedom of speech and the right to privacy are compromised by the surveillance of online and digital communications — and what new privacy-protecting […]
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How your innocent smartphone passes on almost your entire life to the secret service « Bits of Freedom
“After exactly a week, on Monday, 18 November, he concludes the experiment, saying afterwards that he felt liberated when doing so. There’s an easy explanation for his nervousness: what he’ll be doing, where he’ll be and who he has contact with will be seen by tens of thousands of people. Today, by you and me, […]
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Hacked terminals capable of causing pacemaker deaths – Hackers – SC Magazine Australia – Secure Business Intelligence
???The worst case scenario that I can think of, which is 100 percent possible with these devices, would be to load a compromised firmware update onto a programmer and ??? the compromised programmer would then infect the next pacemaker or ICD and then …
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Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling | Danger Room
via wired.com “The program, called Viral Peace, seeks to occupy the virtual space that extremists fill, one thread or Twitter exchange at a time. Shahed Amanullah, a senior technology adviser to the State Department and Viral Peace???s creator, tell…
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DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound – Slashdot
DARPA has made a interesting advancement in the field of fire suppression. Using two speakers arranged on either side of an open liquid fuel flame, an acoustic field was emitted and engulfed the fire. ‘The sound increases air velocity, which then …
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How DARPA uses Mechanical Turk to Translate Social Media – The Mechanical Turk Blog
DARPA produces software that translates thousands of Arabic documents every day using their own state of the art machine translation technology. But as communication shifts from written documents (which tend to follow formal Arabic grammar convent…
