new rfid tech tracks you without your knowledgefrom rfid wizards: By invitation, I recently visited a remote facility in northern Virginia to see a demonstration of NOX – a new Intelligent Perimeter Defense system deployed by the FBI that uses covert Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to track people and assets without their knowledge. That’s right, using RFID to track people without their knowledge. This system is exactly what the privacy advocates have long feared: Big Brother tracking us with spy chips. As Orwellian as this sounds, the undisputed fact is that this system catches thieves and does so at a fraction of the cost of traditional security solutions. NOX combines high-resolution video pictures and RFID for identification, tracking and tracing, overlaid in real time on a facility map to show the movement of people and assets. The system allows security officers to see theft as it happens, even if the stolen object is inside a briefcase, under a jacket, or stuffed inside a sock. What makes the NOX system I saw different from traditional security systems is that it uses RFID for clandestine surveillance: RFID readers are hidden inside walls, floors, and ceilings; RFID tags are discretely placed; and only the security personnel know that the system is in place – until the thief gets caught. Then, all the thief knows is that he or she was caught in the act, on video.
saic scores US army biometrics contract for $500m
former oklahoma sheriff convicted of rape & bribery
flashback: oklahoma sheriff ran sex-slave operation from jail
rioters were paid to provoke the police in bulgaria
from bnn: The provokers at yesterday's [jan14] anti-government protest turned into riots were hired and paid 300 leva (EUR150) to start fights with the police and ruin the peaceful march, DeltaNews reports on Thursday, quoting rumors. People with black masks were roaming through the crowds giving the sum to people under the influence of alcohol. Some of the provokers claim to have been paid days in advance. "I met a guy from the suburb of Lulin came and gave us 300 leva each in order to organize a mass fight with the police at the protest", two members of a FC Levski's ultras group told the Bulgarian National Radio. He had instructed them that it is not bad if the situation escalated into street riots. The men were offered extra money for a job well done. "I understood there are provokers among the protesters when we all knelt down in memory of the murdered student Stoyan Baltov", a declaration by the organizers of the peaceful march says - "The men with black masks continued to stand up."
unconstitutional & illegal gun licensing program proposed
house resolution would open US up to democratic dictatorship
former nsa analyst: nsa ‘monitored all communications’ of americans, targeted journalists
from thinkprogress: Last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” former analyst for the National Security Agency Russell Tice revealed that the NSA had “monitored all communications” of Americans and specifically targeted journalists... Tice, a major whistleblower who helped reveal President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2005, also told Olbermann that the agency sought specifically “to be deceptive” to prevent congressional committees from learning more about the program, calling it “a shell game”
rockefeller: nsa may have spied on me
from raw replay: Sen. Jay Rockefeller told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that he was “quite prepared to believe” that the NSA may have eavesdropped on journalists. Rockefeller said, “I think they went after anyone they could get — including me.” This video is from MSNBC’s Hardball, broadcast Jan. 22, 2009.
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