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UK Gov't May Track All Facebook Traffic 204

Posted by timothy from the posted-before-curfew dept.
Jack Spine writes "The UK government, which is becoming increasingly Orwellian, has said that it is considering snooping on all social networking traffic including Facebook, MySpace, and bebo. This supposedly anti-terrorist measure may be proposed as part of the Intercept Modernisation Programme according to minister Vernon Coaker, and is exactly the sort of deep packet inspection web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned about last week. The measure would get around the inconvenience for the government of not being able to snoop on all UK web traffic."
Privacy

Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers 740

Posted by timothy from the criminalize-everything-spread-the-guilt dept.
Houston 2600 writes "Chicago could rake in 'at least $200 million' a year — and wipe out the entire projected deficit for 2009 — by using its vast network of redlight and surveillance cameras to hunt down uninsured motorists, aldermen were told today. The system pitched to the City Council's Transportation Committee by Michigan-based InsureNet would work only if insurance companies were somehow compelled to report the names and license plates of insured motorists. That's already happening daily in 13 states, but not here."
The Internet

The Men Who Fix the Internet 162

Posted by kdawson from the physical-side-of-things dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Remember all those undersea cables breaking? PopSci.com introduces John Rennie, who '... has braved the towering waves of the North Atlantic Ocean to keep your e-mail coming to you. As chief submersible engineer aboard the Wave Sentinel, part of the fleet operated by UK-based undersea installation and maintenance firm Global Marine Systems, Rennie — a congenial, 6'4", 57-year-old Scotsman — patrols the seas, dispatching a remotely operated submarine deep below the surface to repair undersea cables.' The article goes on to outline the physical infrastructure of the Internet, including some of its points of vulnerability."
Censorship

Names of Advisors Cleared To Access ACTA Documents 186

Posted by kdawson from the who-sees-what-you-can't dept.
1 a bee writes "With the White House claiming national security grounds for failing to release ACTA related information, including negotiating documents and even the list of participants, the spotlight is now on just who does have access. Turns out, according to James Love, hundreds of advisers, many of them corporate lobbyists, are considered 'cleared advisers.' The list looks a who's who of captains of industry."
The Military

US Pentagon Plans For a Spy Blimp 374

Posted by kdawson from the unblinking-eye dept.
nloop writes "The Pentagon is intending to develop a new spy ship — a dirigible. At 65,000 feet it would provide a 10 year, solar power based, unblinkingly intricate and continuous view of the surface via radar surveillance. Because of its altitude it would be safe from surface-to-air missiles and most aircraft. A 1/3-scale prototype, now being designed, is 'known as ISIS, for Integrated Sensor Is the Structure, because the radar system will be built into the structure of the ship. ... 'If successful, the dirigible... could pave the way for a fleet of spy airships, military officials said.'"
United States

WSJ Says Gov't Money Injection Won't Help Broadband 647

Posted by timothy from the at-least-they-can-pay-with-free-money dept.
olddotter writes "According to the WSJ, The US government is about to spend $10 Billion to make little difference in US broadband services: 'More fundamentally, nothing in the legislation would address the key reason that the US lags so far behind other countries. This is that there is an effective broadband duopoly in the US, with most communities able to choose only between one cable company and one telecom carrier. It's this lack of competition, blessed by national, state and local politicians, that keeps prices up and services down.' Get ready for USDA certified Grade A broadband."

Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067

by tux_attack (#26355841) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
1. That plan took what was a free, independent state and began carving it up for no reason at all, the Palestinians hadn't run the holocaust.
2. Israel didn't accept the plan either and began carrying out offesive operations in the no man's land.

The Jewish militias continued to make plans for the construction of airfields and carried-out offensive operations, like the one against Deir Yassin, within the area of the proposed UN trusteeship (the Corpus Separatum)

Link

Shorty after that Israel went to war and began expanding beyond any specified boundaries, pushing the palestineans into refugee camps etc.

Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 1) 1067

by tux_attack (#26355727) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
I fully echo your sentiment.
It should be noted though, that Arabic cultures are semeitc too. Sadly, the term seems to have been appropriated by Zionists to label all their enemies as nazis in accordance with Godwin's law.
Since you are supporting the basic human rights of the Arabs you are semetic and can't be an anti-semite.

Maybe you could join an anti-treating people like shit organization, I'll join too.

Comment Re:Sudden Peace? (Score 1) 1067

by tux_attack (#26355621) Attached to: In the next 12 months, the Middle East will be ...
Mod parent up.

BTW, the Israeli assault has resulted in the deaths of 107 children.
I fail to understand how anyone can rationalize such atrocities. The Isreali's have bomb shelters and warning systems in place so deaths are rare. The Gazans have no such shelter and so whole families get killed by American made, Israeli operated warplanes.
More complete death-count comparison here

Paraphrase:

It's called proportional response, people. Civilized nations use it

You're making quite a few assumptions about the nation/government we're dealing with here.
(read: Israeli government is a mess of religious war-hawks)
Privacy

UK Police To Step Up Hacking of Home PCs 595

Posted by kdawson from the must-be-ok-if-the-good-guys-do-it dept.
toomanyairmiles writes "The Times of London reports that the United Kingdom's Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain to routinely hack into people's personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union's council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state that drives 'a coach and horses' through privacy laws."

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