Tag: software
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#MorningMonarchy: January 9, 2018
Older phones, skull-shaped asteroids and gaming disorders + this day in history w/the sentencing of the Hillside Stranglers and our song of the day by Tricky on your Morning Monarchy for January 9, 2018.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Secret New Police Software Determines Your “Threat Score” (Video)
This week on New World Next Week the marriage between technology and the intelligence community grows with Emotient, Beware and Palantir all vying to download you.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Apple Gets Emotient-al, Beware Your Threat Score, CIA’s Crystal Ball (Audio)
This week on New World Next Week the marriage between technology and the intelligence community grows with Emotient, Beware and Palantir all vying to download you.
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Cyber Espionage: New Worm Attacks AutoCad, Steals Blueprints
Stuxnet showed us the potential for great damage with an attack on infrastructure. Now, a new piece of malware is taking the attack a step further: it’s stealing the plans for your infrastructure, maybe even before it’s built.
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12/15 defcon: god’s particles, takedown sprees & more
ndaa gives pentagon a green light for cyberwar* congress authorizes pentagon to wage internet war* ‘blueprint for a secure cyber future’: dhs releases cyber strategy framework* california unveils cyber crime […]
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cyberwar explodes in syria with state dept-funded software ‘psiphon’
from cnn: A familiar digital chime rang on the computer. Someone was calling via Skype from Syria. It was a law student and opposition activist from the city of Homs […]
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virtual eternity
Would you like virtual eternity? A digital simulation of yourself created by sophisticated–and creepy–simulation, gaming and artificial intelligence software. Your digital avatar would interact online and remember conversation and log […]
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Tax-Funded Pentagon Software Ends Up Owned By Corporations
The Department of Defense spends tens of billions of dollars annually creating software that is rarely reused & difficult to adapt to new threats. Instead, much of this software is allowed to become the property of defense companies, resulting in DoD repeatedly funding the same solutions or, worse, repaying to use previously created software.
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Defcon 4/22: Takedowns, Lockups & Predictive Analytics
Google exposes government takedown requests* Google: US demanded user info 3,500 times in 6 months* Google hackers stole source code of global password system* Second banker accused of stealing high-frequency […]
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defcon 12/12: regimes, lists, biometrics & privacy promis
how to shut down the ‘net: a guide for repressive regimes* will 2010 bring a wake-up call for cybersecurity?*fbi: 19,000 matches to terrorist screening list in ’09* bank firewalls cracked […]