Category Archives: Covert Ops

FBI Can Eavesdrop On Powered-Off Cell Phones?

They don’t even need a warrant to do this.

How would they do that scientifically, if it is powered off? As you may recall, I smashed my cell phone with a big ass rock a while back and have been much happier ever since.

Personal Bug Detectors

Here’s one from ThinkGeek
This one is cooler-looking though, I think. And let’s face it: if you’re going to get into this kind of technology, you owe it to yourself to try and feel as cool and “spy” as possible. (More devices from that retailer)
This noise generator is cool too, if crazy expensive: “The ANG-2200 is [...]

Disposable Terror Phones

The immediate future of data security and individual privacy - as far as I can tell - lies in things like disposable identities and identity trading. That is, until we have legal rights guaranteeing us full personal data sovereignty - a development which though we’re making strides is not likely to come to fruition any [...]

What’s Missing From This Blog Post?

{Piggy-backing on the idea I just posted about: using cached versions of pages in place of newer updated versions, either intentionally or accidentally…}
How would you ever know whether a blog post that you’re reading from a random stranger on the internet hasn’t been automatically edited to remove certain keywords and types of content? For that [...]

Do You Have Terrorist Data Patterns?

If they can do this with voice & other biometrics, they can certainly do it with online data patterns, which you currently do not own, but which you ought to legally claim data sovereignty over before its too late to suggest that.
Computer and behavioral scientists at the University of Buffalo are developing a system [...]

Secret Agents & New Media Direction

I saw the Bourne Ultimatum the other night with the Strategist. We’d both already seen it, but have a shared love for these kinds of movies as well as the subject matter in general.
One of the things that I thought was the most interesting in this movie is the ways in which technology becomes [...]

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