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The Spy Factory. www.pbs.org/nova/spyfactory For the first time on television, NOVA exposes the hidden world of the high-tech, 21st-century eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency. Today, the NSA is the world’s largest intelligence agency, three times the size of the CIA and far more secret. Its mission is to eavesdrop on the world—from [...]
TSA’s ‘behavior detection’ draws scrutiny in light of few arrests. Counterterrorism effort is crucial, agency says. By Thomas Frank USA TODAY. WASHINGTON — Fewer than 1% of airline passengers singled out at airports for suspicious behavior are arrested, Transportation Security Administration figures show, raising complaints that too many innocent people are stopped. A TSA program launched [...]
What the data miners are digging up about you – New Scientist by Amanda Gefter and Tom Simonite. In today’s technological world we leave electronic traces wherever we go, whether shopping online or on the high street, at work or at play. That data is the raw material for a new industry of number crunchers [...]
Researchers have demonstrated that speech sounds and voices (such as those in the audio waves depicted above) can be identified by means of a unique ‘neural fingerprint’ in the listener’s brain. (Credit: iStockphoto) Neuroimaging Of Brain Shows Who Spoke To A Person And What Was Said
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles. Canada has CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency? On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons [...]
‘Tying the room together’: DARPA’s Project Gandalf. In the 1998 Coen brothers cult film The Big Lebowski, southern California slacker Jeffrey Lebowski aka “The Dude,” bemoans the desecration of his living room rug by criminals out to collect a debt in a hilariously absurd case of mistaken identity. After the thugs urinate on his prized possession, [...]
A giant knitted rabbit in Italy can be seen from space by visitors to Google Earth. The giant bunny was “knitted by dozens of grannies” Photo: BARCROFT The knitted rabbit can be seen from space Photo: BARCROFT The 200-foot-long toy rabbit lies on the side of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern [...]
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones. By David Leppard. Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. Phone buyers would have to present a passport or other official form of identification at the [...]