Archive for July, 2012
Toxic Clenbuterol in Chinese and Mexican Meat
July 29th, 2012Via: CBC: Fearing tainted meat, China’s women’s volleyball team has stuck to a strict vegetarian diet for the last three weeks — which the team’s coach is now blaming for his athletes’ abysmal performance. The Chinese team lost four of five matches at a world tournament that ended Sunday in Ningbo, China, falling to the […]
Cryptocat
July 28th, 2012Out of my 4 DHS interrogations in the past 3 weeks, it’s the first time I’m asked about Cryptocat crypto and my passport is confiscated. —Nadim Kobeissi From what I’ve read so far, Cryptocat looks interesting, mainly because it might be usable by regular computer users. Cryptogon is read by many people with multiple propellers […]
Basketball Players On a DLR Train: All Seeing Eye in British Government Transportation Advisory for 2012 Olympics
July 28th, 2012Check out the tattoo on the right arm of the standing basketball player. Via: Get Ahead of the Games – Basketball Players On a DLR Train (.pdf): This website has been developed by Transport for London on behalf of the Olympic Delivery Authority, London 2012, the Department for Transport, the Highways Agency, National Rail and […]
Facebook Slaughter: Down Another 15%
July 27th, 2012Via: CNN: Facebook’s stock opened at an all-time low, after its first earnings report failed to ease worries over slowing sales growth and its plan for mobile advertising. Shares of Facebook (FB) tumbled nearly 15% to below $23 on Friday, 40% below the company’s initial offering price from May.
The Gentleperson’s Guide to Forum Spies
July 27th, 2012Via: Cryptome: 1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of an internet forum 2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation 3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist 4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent) 5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
CIA Says No Problem with Its NYPD Partnership
July 27th, 2012Via: AP: The CIA said Friday its internal watchdog found nothing wrong with the spy agency’s close partnership with the New York Police Department. The agency’s inspector general concluded that no laws were broken and there was “no evidence that any part of the agency’s support to the NYPD constituted ‘domestic spying’,” CIA spokesman Preston […]
Controlling Monkey Brains and Behavior with Light
July 26th, 2012Via: PhysOrg: Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells. The findings represent a key advance for optogenetics, a state-of-the-art method for making causal connections between brain […]
Skype Makes Chats and User Data More Available to Police
July 26th, 2012Via: Washington Post: Skype, the online phone service long favored by political dissidents, criminals and others eager to communicate beyond the reach of governments, has expanded its cooperation with law enforcement authorities to make online chats and other user information available to police, said industry and government officials familiar with the changes. Surveillance of the […]
Barrels of Human Fetuses Found In Russian Forest
July 26th, 2012Via: AP: Villagers in Russia’s south Urals region have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery – four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses, prompting an official probe, officials said Tuesday. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags marked with surnames and numbers. The […]
Spoofing Eye-Scanners
July 26th, 2012Via: Wired: Remember that scene in Minority Report when the spider robots stalk Tom Cruise to his apartment and scan his iris to identify him? Things could have turned out so much better for Cruise had he been wearing a pair of contact lenses embossed with an image of someone else’s iris. New research being […]
