Articles

• Building the Beast
  1 January 2007

  Happy New Year all... here is some food for thought...
  You have probably all heard the terms "Total System Integration" and "Total Informational Awareness" (TIA) but I suspect very few have any idea of what this really means and where it will end.
  Ah, where to start, there are so many facets, so many angles, and you are so conditioned to NOT see... in fact, you have been carefully conditioned to be so biased that you are addicted to it and under current conditions legally insane. (...)

• Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet
  28 December 2006

  Dec 27 5:04 AM US/Eastern
  Internet and phone services have been disrupted across much of Asia after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving one of the world’s most tech-savvy regions in a virtual blackout.
  From frustrated traders seeking in vain for stock quotes to anxious newshounds accustomed to round-the-clock updates on world events, millions of people from China to Japan to Australia were believed to have been affected.
  There was no chaos on the stock exchanges or any of the (...)

• Blueprinting the human brain
  17 May 2006

  Blueprinting the human brain
  May 16, 2006 CNET News.com
  By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com SAN JOSE, Calif.—A 3D computer simulation of 10,000 neurons firing in the human brain produces a terabyte of data—a fraction of what it would take to map the brain’s billions of neurons in algorithms. That’s according to Henry Markram, a scientist working on the Blue Brain project, a collaboration of IBM, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, or EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland, (...)

• Presidential Votes Miscast on E-Voting Machines Across the Country
  5 November 2004

  Voters from at least half a dozen states reported that touch-screen voting machines had incorrectly recorded their choices, including for president.
  Voters discovered the problems when checking the review screen at the end of the voting process. They found, to their surprise, that the machines indicated that they voted for one candidate when they had voted for another. When voters tried to correct the problem, the machine often made the same error several times. While in most cases the (...)

• Anomalies, Prisons, and Geophysics: How Governments Use Data and How to Stop Them
  6 October 2006

  A common definition of an anomaly is "a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form." This definition, however, can be simplified by stating that an anomaly "is a deviation from specific parameters." The defining characteristic of an anomaly is that it can only exist in a comparative setting, implying that it can only be detected within a certain data set. Once a data set is obtained then parameters can be specified to filter out so called anomalies for evaluation. Depending (...)

• Diebold AccuVote touch-screen voting machine: No voters required.
  26 February 2006

  Why do Diebold’s Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports?
  IrDA Protocol Can ’Totally Compromise System’ Without Detection, Warns Federal Voting Standards Website
  So far, no state or federal authority — to our knowledge — has dealt with this alarming security threat
  We hate to pile on... (Or do we?)
  But, really, with all the recent discussion of California Sec. of State Bruce McPherson’s mind-blowing about-face re-certification of Diebold — against (...)

• Growing Collection of Vote Fraud links: ATTN Global Media
  7 November 2004

  The list of evidence is growing that the US election was anything but a fair vote. Who could possibly think that all of these voting problems are just a minor aberation? The long lines are always in Democratic counties, that the computer ’glitches’ always favor Bush, and the new e-machines were made by a Bush ’Pioneer’ (top donor) that pledged to deliver for Bush. Funny how Diebold makes bank machines which print paper receipts millions of times daily, but they couldn’t get the printer to (...)

• Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software
  7 December 2004

  by Wayne Madsen
  The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.
  An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican (...)

• Domestic Spying: NSA has Backdoor Key to Microsoft Windows
  18 December 2005

  Sept 3, 1999
  A careless mistake by Microsoft programmers has shown that special access codes for use by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) have been secretly built into all versions of the Windows operating system.
  Computer-security specialists have been aware for two years that unusual features are contained inside a standard Windows driver used for security and encryption functions. The driver, called ADVAPI.DLL, enables and controls a range of security functions including the (...)

• 9th Circuit: Laptops May Be Subject To Customs Inspections After Overseas Trips
  16 September 2006

  9th Circuit: Laptops May Be Subject To Customs Inspections After Overseas Trips By Steve Seidenberg Friday, September 15, 2006 With a conviction for online child exploitation, Stuart Romm is hardly a sympathetic advocate for computer privacy.
  Still, what happened to Romm when he crossed the border into the United States worries some legal experts. The laptop computer that he carried with him was intensively searched by customs officials. On July 24, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (...)

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