Showing posts with label security schmecurity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security schmecurity. Show all posts
March 19, 2011

Student Thwarts Facial Recognition Software

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"CV Dazzle" is based on the original camouflage from WWI and targets automated face detection and recognition systems by altering ...
January 3, 2011

Political Art Month: July, 2011

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The theme's just been announced by Gene Elder of the MUD Underground: Homeland Aesthetics . H*ll, yeah – less "security theater...
December 30, 2010

Homeland Security – Psyops on US?

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We now have two reported instances of trolling traced to Homeland Security IP addresses: Homeland Security Trolling We Won’t Fly Blog (com...
December 7, 2010

Future Attribute Screening Technology

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No joke. More at Wikipedia .
January 17, 2010

Meanwhile . . . .

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Trying to keep track of ongoing as well as more recent disasters, I found myself remembering these images, which some of you may have missed...

Artist Jill Magid's "Authority to Remove" Is Removed by Dutch Authorities

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Magid specializes in exploring issues of surveillance, privacy, secrecy, and what's inside vs. outside. E.g., for Evidence Locker (mult...
August 23, 2008

Hacker Broke into Homeland Security Phone System and Made 400 Calls

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The illegal activity was caught by Sprint, which apparently thought it odd when $12,000 in calls to the Middle East from FEMA (now part of ...
August 16, 2008

Police Plan to Track Every Vehicle that Enters Manhattan

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Via cryptogon (thanks, Ben!) Like, wow, that "Ring of Steel" really helped London prevent the 7-7-05 bombings .
March 8, 2008

All Air Passengers to Be Fingerprinted

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According to the U.K.'s Telegraph , all international and domestic passengers leaving Terminal 5 of London's Heathrow Airport will s...
February 22, 2008

US Feds Ordered "Assassination City" Police to STOP Screening for Weapons at Obama Rally

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Per The Fort Worth Star Telegram , "[s]ecurity details at Barack Obama's rally [in Dallas, Texas] Wednesday stopped screening peopl...