Posts Tagged ‘Spooks’

Ignorance Is Futile: It wasn’t until I saw my employer pull out a new Android phone recently did I realized the next level in privacy matters: business trade secrets. You’d be hard pressed to find a much stauncher critic of cute & cuddly Google than yours truly, yet somehow I hadn’t pondered this realm. Of [...]

NZHerald: …there is a dark side to the success story that’s been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defence. The CIA is, though, using a Facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexy sounding National Clandestine Service. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography Steganography is the practice of hiding messages within media. The picture below is a form of physical steganography, but don’t worry, you don’t have to be both an artist and an expert in exotic ciphers to be able to encode messages. Modern digital steganography tools make this process a snap. Steganart example. Within this [...]

Government Computer News: The research organization for U.S. intelligence agencies is looking to fund projects designed to yield revolutionary innovations in intelligence collection. That organization, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), has asked industry and academia through a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)  to propose research that dramatically improves the value of collected data. IARPA [...]

This monster sized parody video has a much larger story: a story so large what else could top it? When machine intelligence surpasses humans and embraces its own power as a ‘living’ god what event in history is a bigger story? Google’s model from the ground up is in building what they call “the mind [...]