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Posts Tagged technology
Mozilla’s New Universal Login
Mozilla has developed a competing login framework that they claim is more secure than Facebook’s or Google’s design.
Computer Virus: Reveton Ransomware
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 13/Aug/2012 13:01
A new Internet virus is holding computers hostage across the United States and beyond.
– FBI, This Week
New Malware Goes After Financial Information
Posted by Brian in Comms, News, Threat Watch on 10/Aug/2012 16:56
CNET reports on the new Gauss malware tool:
Gauss has unique characteristics relative to other malware. Kaspersky said it found Gauss following the discovery of Flame. The International Telecommunications Union has started an effort to identify emerging cyberthreats and mitigate them before they spread.
Pistol Pay Allows Online Gun Transactions
Pistol Pay is another company that is attempting to be the PayPal of the gun world. Let’s hope they succeed.
Shrimp Is Inspiration For New Body Armor Design
Posted by Brian in Body Armor, News, Warriors on 19/Jun/2012 08:43
From Gizmag:
Woman Ordered To Give Up Password
From Wired.com:
The authorities seized the Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with a court warrant while investigating alleged mortgage fraud. Ruling that the woman’s Fifth Amendment rights against compelled self-incrimination would not be breached, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered the woman in January to decrypt the laptop.
Interview: Black Ops Veteran Talks Video Games And The Real World
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 23/Nov/2010 23:25
[Gamasutra’s Leigh Alexander talks to a Black Ops combat veteran about his new book of gunfight tactics, the interest he’s received from gamers — and his thoughts on how games and the real world relate.]
The advertising campaign for Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops shows a bunch of everyday folks toting arms around a gray warscape, firing rocket launchers at helicopters and storming blasted edifices, guns in hand. “There’s a soldier in all of us,” it promises.”
GunSafe iPhone App
Posted by Brian in News, Warrior Tools on 22/Nov/2010 16:25
Defense Review has a nice review of a new iPhone app that logs all the information for all your firearms.
GunSafe allows you to securely load, store, and categorize information on every firearm they own. You can load the weapon’s make, model, serial number, purchase/transfer location, date of purchase/transfer, purchase price, and provide notes on it. You can also store a photo of the weapon.
SOCOM Wants Android Devices
Posted by Brian in Comms, News, Warrior Tools on 1/Nov/2010 17:04
SOCOM wants to use Google’s Android devices instead of developing a proprietary system:
From Danger Room:
SOCOM calls it the Tactical Situational Awareness Application Suite, or TactSA, and it has to work in low-connectivity areas — the middle-of-nowhere places you’d expect to send the military’s most elite troops. It’s got to be peer-to-peer, encrypted “at the application level†and able to recover from “network outages and substantial packet loss.â€
Electronic Frontier Foundation Needs Your Support!
Dear Friend of Digital Freedom,
In 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) took an unprecedented stand for technology users’ civil liberties by suing the Secret Service for seizing and damaging Steve Jackson Games’ computers. Twenty years later, EFF remains passionately engaged in protecting civil liberties at the forefront of technology. In 2010, EFF rose to meet new challenges and secured new freedoms for users everywhere.
In 2010:
EFF made it possible – for the first time in history – for artists and educators to excerpt from DVDs without fear of breaking the law;
EFF defended political bloggers and peer-to-peer users from copyright “trolls” bullying them into bogus legal settlements;
EFF conducted groundbreaking research on privacy and security, and used the findings to lobby for improved user protections; and
EFF collaborated with local groups throughout the world to advance privacy and free expression through technology.
These victories were only possible thanks to donations from individuals like you. Charity Navigator, a leading evaluator of non-profit efficiency, has given EFF its highest rating — we make each and every contribution count in the fight for freedom on the electronic frontier.
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Using powerful technology, U.S. authorities intercept telephone calls in Mexico resulting in spectacular arrests
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 20/Oct/2010 17:14
“Washington, D.C. – Investigations by United States federal authorities included the monitoring of telephone calls of Mexican drug cartels, according to The Washington Post.
Using powerful, modern technology, U.S. authorities have been able to intercept telephone calls in Mexico that resulted in spectacular arrests such as that of Jesus Quinonez Marquez, Prosecutor General of Baja California, who was an operative in a narcotics ring. Quinonez was known as “El Rinon,†and he was arrested by the FBI last July in San Diego, California in an investigation that resulted in criminal charges against 42 more people.
Besides Quinonez, 34 other suspects were detained in the United States and 8 more are fugitives.”
Mexico: Drug Cartels using internet social media, and Government proposals to fight it
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 11/Oct/2010 18:41
“What we do know is that drug cartels don’t merely depend on anonymous websites … they are quite capable of publishing that information online – and anonymously – themselves. In fact, according to the the blog “Last of the Dodos,†the Gulf Cartel even temporarily had its own official YouTube channel. (The account was quickly suspended.)
Mexican officials also say that drug cartels are using Twitter and Facebook to avoid military raids and police checkpoints. In the border town of Reynosa, where fighting between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel has been the most intense, a Facebook message that warned of an upcoming shootout caused the entire city, including schools and shops, to shut down. (The predicted shootout never did take place.)
Mexican politicians have responded by proposing a law that would give them power to block websites that facilitate the breaking of the law. It would also make illegal the publishing of information that helps anyone break the law or avoid the police.
In practice, the law could provide the government a handy excuse to censor legitimate information that helps hold government officials accountable.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/citizen-journalism-and-drug-trafficking.html