Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data
from ndtv.com: When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies could be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player’s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
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Technology Doesn’t Destroy Community – Humans Do
from theamericanconservative.com: Modern society fosters the idea of personhood as a singular thing: we believe that living in community is not necessary, though often beneficial. Social obligation and community are voluntary: they can and should be discarded whenever convenient for the individual. Some believe these trends are based in the increase of technology; but according…
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Army prepares to replace thousands of troops with military robots
from rt.com: An all-out drone war seems inevitable given the rapid rate at which battlefield technology is advancing in this day and age, but a United States Army commander expects an arsenal of robotic warriors could be but a few years away. Gen. Robert Cone, the chief of the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, said…
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Homeland Security special agents hold up a Google Glass moviegoer
from arstechnica.com: A patron of an AMC theater in Columbus, Ohio, was detained this past Saturday for wearing Google Glass while watching a movie, according to a report from The Gadgeteer. The Glass-wearer, who wishes to remain anonymous, was pulled out of the theater mid-Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and questioned for an hour by US…
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US judge rules IP address does not prove online piracy
from rt.com: A US federal judge in Washington wrote that a suspected internet pirate should not be prosecuted solely because his computer’s IP address was identified by a film studio. The landmark opinion may tip the fortunes of defendants in similar situations. The Hollywood executives behind the movie ‘Elf Man’ filed a lawsuit against hundreds…
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Obama Says NSA’s Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Data Will End
from online.wsj.com: President Barack Obama outlined a plan to sharply curtail the government’s collection and use of American phone data, part of the most significant revision of U.S. spying practices in a decade and an outgrowth of the world-wide backlash over revelations about U.S. surveillance programs. The most immediate changes to spy operations affect a…
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Google unveils ‘smart contact lens’ to measure glucose levels
from bbc.co.uk: Google has said it is testing a “smart contact lens” that can help measure glucose levels in tears. It uses a “tiny” wireless chip and a “miniaturised” glucose sensor embedded between two layers of lens material. The firm said it is also working on integrating tiny LED lights that could light up to…
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U.S. warns merchants on methods used by Target hackers
from reuters.com: The U.S. government on Thursday provided merchants with information gleaned from its confidential investigation into the massive data breach at Target Corp, in a move aimed at identifying and thwarting similar attacks that may be ongoing. The report titled “Indicators for Network Defenders” brings to light some of the first information gleaned from…
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Joining a Handful of Other Cities, Lincoln, Nebraska Bans Police #Drones
from motherboard.vice.com: In two sentences, Mayor Chris Beutler of Lincoln, Nebraska has grounded any aspirations for unmanned aerial vehicles within his police department. As part of a comprehensive executive order on police surveillance activities, Mayor Beutler curtly singled out drones as clearly prohibited. “Drones are not authorized under this policy or any other Lincoln Police…
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US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers
NSA spies have inserted circuitry into computers in China, Russia, EU, India, Saudi and Pakistan to gain intelligence. from aljazeera.com: The United States has implanted devices in nearly 100,000 computers to spy on institutions such as the Chinese and Russian military, EU trade groups and agencies within Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan. The New York Times on Tuesday cited documents…
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Net neutrality gets a kick in the teeth
A US court has ruled against the FCC’s Open Internet regulations, putting the future of net neutrality completely up in the air. from zdnet.com: The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in the case of Verizon et al. v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and it’s bad, bad news…
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Why @Google paid $3.2B for @Nest, a thermostat company
from computerworld.com: Google is moving into your home. On Monday, the Internet company said it was acquiring Nest, a maker of smart smoke alarms and thermostats, in a move that gives Google a strong foothold in a hot new market known as the “connected home.” The idea behind the connected home is to connect heating…
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Space fishing: Japan to test ‘magnetic net’ for space junk
from RT.com: Japan’s space agency is subcontracting a fishing net company to develop a technology to clean up the space junk that poses a direct threat to Earth’s communication networks. The mission is planned for 2019, with first tests scheduled for this February. Tokyo’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Nitto Seimo Co, a company with…
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Could data collection have stopped 9/11? White House thinks so
from latimes.com: Many of President Obama’s closest advisors have embraced a controversial assessment of one of the National Security Agency’s major data collection programs — the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks could have been prevented had government then possessed the sort of vast trove of Americans’ telephone records it holds now… In…
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#Target says data breach bigger than previously thought
from cbsnews.com: The revelations about Target’s (TGT) data breach continue to get worse, with the retailer now estimating that at least 70 million customers have been impacted, almost twice as many as the 40 million it had earlier disclosed. And it may turn out even more people were affected. Target said that its forensics investigation…