Tag: homeland security
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#MorningMonarchy: September 4, 2018
Historical revisionism, rigged results and ‘First Man’ + this day in history w/the Golden Dragon massacre and our song of the day by Twenty One Pilots on your Morning Monarchy for September 4, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 17, 2018
Blogger database, power fluctuations and cellular eavesdropping + this day in history w/the return of Apollo 13 and our song of the day by Jorge Elbrecht on your Morning Monarchy for April 17, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: November 21, 2017
Biometric airports, hacked infotainment and high-flying skydicks + this day in history w/the invention of the phonograph and our song of the day by Chromeo on your Morning Monarchy for November 21, 2017.
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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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Tri-City hockey crowds to be taped for U.S. security research
from tri-cityherald.com: Hockey fans at the season opener of the Tri-City Americans will have a chance to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security improve its facial recognition capabilities. Video will be taped by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the Sept. 21 game in a portion of the Toyota Center in Kennewick. It is planned…
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Pentagon considers employees unhappy with US policies a security threat
from RT.com: The Pentagon is warning its employees to be on the look-out for colleagues who demonstrate an “unhappiness with US foreign policy,” visit family abroad and have financial problems – traits that classify someone as an “insider threat”. Afraid that its federal employees could follow the footsteps of Army Private first class Bradley Manning,…
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Homeland Security Considering Arming Border Drones With ‘Non-Lethal Weapons’
from StratRisks.com: Attacks by U.S. unmanned drones in the Middle East and Africa are commonplace, but it would be unheard of to see these aerial military weapons appearing over the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet it’s a possible scenario, according to a newly-unearthed document from the country’s leading federal border agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According…
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US Seizes Top Bitcoin Exchange As Crackdown Begins
The American government has previously made it clear that officials are watching Bitcoin, a decentralized economic currency that international regulators have not yet been able to control.
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Police using ‘predictive analytics’ to prevent crimes before they happen
from rawstory.com: Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology known as “predictive policing” promises to make them more efficient. A growing number of law enforcement agencies, in the US and elsewhere, have been adopting software tools with predictive analytics, based on algorithms that aim to predict crimes…
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New App Helps You Snitch on Your Friends
In less time than it takes to play a turn in Words With Friends, smartphone users can report a ‘suspicious person’ to the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security.
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son of stuxnet?
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs was advised, last week, variant of Stuxnet poses threat to critical infrastructure, reports Christian Science Monitor. Cybersecurity experts believe modified Son of Stuxnet” could target wider range of control systems. Many facilities use a combination of Windows operating & Siemens control systems like Iran’s nuclear facilities, attacked…