Tag: Security
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Naked Citizens – Documentary on CCTV and Drones
Amazing stuff from Journeyman Pictures this documentary talks about the rise of CCTV in the UK, the use of drones in surveillance, and some really scary stories about how people are being tracked digitally across the world, some for no reason than the types of words they use – as in the case of Andrej…
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Cloudy thinking, or as Wired shows you can never be too paranoid
Reading about Mat Honan and his hacking experience on Wired’s blog reminded me that you can never be too paranoid either in security or backups. It brings up a new set of issues, well not actually new to those who were already working in this sphere, but new to the public at large. Which is…
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Chips, Crisps, Trainers and Roadblock: Olympic Silly season starts!
I’ve stopped recently my series on the Olympics – I’m calling it Olympic Silly Season – but the opening of the ‘zil lanes’ and arrival of the athletes has provoked several new giggles/WTF moments. Ring one! police guarding Eton Dorney have been told by LOCOG brand police to put their crisps into plastic bags, and…
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Don’t Touch my Junk!
Rx does it again – Obama says ‘Don’t touch my Junk!’ Also check out these TSA-tastic bumper stickers:
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Big Brother wants to see you naked
You know those full body scanners in airports that peek under your clothes? Well they now are in the street too, perving at you and your car/van/truck and indeed passing school bus for those security personnel of a Pedobear persuasion…and the AS&E’s Z Backscatter Van™ (ZBV) are seemingly sold to anyone, not just government, who…
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going dark…
Inevitable, and given the silly responses to open P2P and bittorrent, the way it’s going…and very hard if not possible to police, and yes supports all kinds of groups including the ones you’d rather not play with (military and child pr0n, hmm) but still…publicly offline is the new online! See you there? I wonder if…