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  • Diebold AccuVote touch-screen voting machine: No voters required.
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 — (…)

  • Police State Technology
    23 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I found this on Global Research website. I’m sure if the good ’ole US of A doesn’t have a boatload yet, they are on their way!!!!!!!!!
    _Police State Technology: Implanting a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle
    _February 22, 2006 NewsWithViews.com - 2004-04-24
    _Empire North, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, has introduced a new law enforcement tool called an ID Sniper Rifle™.
    _According to their marketing material, the ID Sniper Rifle™ is used (…)

  • Bush wants to be able to round up dissenters, the poor, and the sick ASAP for FEMA’s camps and KBR’
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. agency pushes use of electronic health records Wants consumer demand to spur adoption of e-records News Story by Heather Havenstein
    FEBRUARY 13, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - SAN DIEGO — In a new tactic to build support for the use of health care IT, the Bush administration office charged with promoting the use of electronic health records is setting its sights on consumers. The (…)

  • In Memoriam For Joan LoDato
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    – long read but worth it A little note before we start. I learned with God all things are possible. I also learned with God you can forgive. Finally from God, I learned that truth shall be my sword and gentleness and patience shall be my armour.
    (What you are about to read are my findings of the secret NON USA Echelon base on Dominica: Why it was set up by the Cabal; and finally, why my investigation was performed is based on two questions: why, when my sister, Joan Lodato, was murdered (…)

  • US group implants electronic tags in workers
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Waters in San Francisco
    An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them.
    CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police.
    Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the (…)

  • Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Police blotter” is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law.
    By Declan McCullagh , Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    What: The Justice Department asks a judge to approve Patriot Act e-mail monitoring without any evidence of criminal behavior.
    When: Decided Feb. 2, 2006 by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington, D.C.
    Outcome: E-mail surveillance approved.
    What happened: As part of a grand jury investigation that’s still secret, the Justice Department asked a (…)

  • A watched America is not a free America
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Doug Thompson
    I stopped for gas on my way home last night, inserting my credit card into the reader at the gas pump at the Exxon station on North Main Street in Floyd, Virginia. It cost just under $40 to fill the 19-gallon gas tank on my Jeep Wrangler.
    With the tank filled, I retrieved the receipt and climbed back into the Jeep but before I could start the engine a bank of high speed computers operated by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at 3801 Fairfax Drive in (…)

  • Administration Paper Defends Spy Program Detailed Argument Cites War Powers
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carol D. Leonnig
    The Bush administration argued yesterday that the president has inherent war powers under the Constitution to order warrantless eavesdropping on the international calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens and others in this country, offering the administration’s most detailed legal defense to date of its surveillance program.
    The Justice Department’s lengthy legal analysis also says that if a 1978 law that requires court warrants for domestic eavesdropping is interpreted as (…)

  • The future is here - and it works
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There is nothing very exciting about the sliver of silicon in a computer chip, the slab of coated aluminium in a hard disc or the strands of glass used in optical fibre. These basic components have become so commonplace that most of us long since learnt to take them for granted.
    But something has been happening to the fundamental building blocks of the computing and networking age, along with the systems into which they are assembled. In short, the foundations upon which our (…)

  • Domestic Spying: NSA has Backdoor Key to Microsoft Windows
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 (…)