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Current Topic: Surveillance

No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society
Topic: Surveillance 3:03 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005

"... a thoroughly researched and naggingly disquieting chronicle ..."

In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex.

Recognizing the appeal of state-of-the-art systems, the author recognizes, too, that the same devices can mistakenly destroy reputations and cast a pall over a free society.

No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society


Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms
Topic: Surveillance 2:09 pm EST, Jan 17, 2004

To a post-cold-war generation of Americans, the prospect of living under surveillance is no longer scary but cool.

... essentially a scam: propaganda for a new business model that only pretends to give consumers more control while in fact subjecting them to increasingly sophisticated forms of monitoring and manipulation.

The true beneficiaries are the marketers, advertisers and corporate executives who have a large stake in seeing surveillance portrayed as benign.

If you opt to follow this link, you can look forward to another one of those silly juxtapositions of disparate statistics that is supposed to be deeply insightful but is really meaningless.

Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms


Some Rental Cars are Keeping Tabs on the Drivers
Topic: Surveillance 12:57 am EST, Jan 14, 2004

About a quarter of the rental cars in the United States are equipped with tracking technology, analysts estimate.

Recent efforts have quietly focused on catching renters who ... break speed laws.

"What if you're doing your due diligence on a transaction? It could threaten the whole deal."

These stories should not be news to anyone here, but I didn't know the technology had been deployed so extensively. I can't imagine there are too many business customers who are pleased to see this.

Some Rental Cars are Keeping Tabs on the Drivers


Nemesysco Ltd.
Topic: Surveillance 2:50 pm EST, Jan 10, 2004

Nemesysco's R&D develops technologies in various fields, all supporting our main voice analysis technology:

... accurately analyze your subject's current state-of-mind;
... analyze the conversation as a whole;
... automatically flag "Interesting" telephone calls.

Nemesysco Ltd.


Too Much Power
Topic: Surveillance 4:21 pm EST, Jan  3, 2004

The FBI now has more power to compel ... with no court oversight and in nearly total secrecy.

Congress should be finding ways to curtail the use [of authority], not expand it.

Now, to issue a national security letter, the FBI merely has to certify that the information is "relevant" to a national security investigation.

This is more unchecked power than the agency ought to have ...

... Congress has taken action that really is worth worrying about.

The Washington Post is not pleased.

Too Much Power


Cryptome
Topic: Surveillance 8:06 pm EST, Dec 22, 2003

Chock full o' good "insider" information on the military and intelligence communities internationally.

Cryptome


Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs
Topic: Surveillance 6:13 pm EST, Dec 20, 2003

Privacy advocates say the lack of legal clarity about who can gain access to location information poses a serious risk. Cellphones that report your location promote the scrutiny of small decisions -- where to have lunch, when to take a break, how fast to drive -- rather than general accountability.

"Your location is going to be known at all times by some electronic device. It's inevitable."

There are few answers, but the debate is already taking shape.

Critics worry that it will become ubiquitous before legal guidelines are established.

Just Say No.

Lost? Hiding? Your Cellphone Is Keeping Tabs


The Blocker Tag [PDF]
Topic: Surveillance 9:15 pm EDT, Sep 27, 2003

We propose the use of "selective blocking" by "blocker tags" as a way of protecting consumers from unwanted scanning of RFID tags attached to items they may be carrying or wearing.

While an ordinary RFID tag is a simple, cheap (e.g. five-cent) passive device intended as an "electronic bar-code" for use in supply-chain management, a blocker tag is a cheap passive RFID device that can simulate many ordinary RFID tags simultaneously. When carried by a consumer, a blocker tag thus "blocks" RFID readers. It can do so universally by simulating all possible RFID tags. Or a blocker tag can block selectively by simulating only selected subsets of ID codes, such as those by a particular manufacturer, or those in a designated "privacy zone."

We believe that this approach, when used with appropriate care, provides a very attractive alternative for addressing privacy concerns raised by the potential (and likely) widespread use of RFID tags in consumer products.

We also discuss possible abuses arising from blocker tags, and means for detecting and dealing with them.

You might consider this paper to be Ron Rivest's reply to Barry Steinhardt's concerns about RFID.

The Blocker Tag [PDF]


British Concern to Help US Track Terrorists
Topic: Surveillance 10:17 am EDT, Oct 23, 2002

Autonomy, a British developer of sophisticated information retrieval software, plans to announce on Monday that it has been chosen to provide an analysis system to help the United States government track suspected terrorists.

This is a John Markoff article from Monday's NYT.

Autonomy is the maker of Kenjin, a now-defunct product that was basically a Windows version of the Remembrance Agent for emacs on Unix.

The company won a GSA contract to support the future Department of Homeland Security. (Even agencies that don't yet exist are giving away money!)

British Concern to Help US Track Terrorists


Camera Zapper
Topic: Surveillance 6:07 am EDT, Oct  8, 2002

How to ZAP a Camera:
Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors

Cameras are ubiquitous today, and, from a technology perspective, the revolution is just beginning. To many, this is good news. But there is a dark side. ... When cameras are everywhere, is it possible to become invisible from them? Yes and no.

I began by aiming an inexpensive laser pointer directly into the lens of a video camera. The results were striking.

On Monday, John Markoff published a story about the author of this research, Michael Naimark.

This work has a certain "Steve Mann meets Ross Anderson" appeal to it.

Camera Zapper


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