The new U.S. intelligence czar is developing a computer system capable of data-mining huge amounts of information about everyday events to discern patterns that look like terrorist planning. The technology is reminiscent of the axed Total Information Awareness program. Civil liberties and privacy advocates criticized the effort, called Tangram, which is being developed by contractors working for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Read more about it here.
The much anticipated version 2.0 of Mozilla’s popular web browser will be available for download tomorrow.
Firefox 2.0 sports an inline spell-checker, anti-phishing technology and improved tabbed browsing - a feature Microsoft have been eager to adopt. Firefox’s share of the browser market has grown to 9.8 percent of the U.S. market this month, from 2.9 percent in October 2004 and statistics indicate an ever increasing move to Firefox by Windows users. 2600uk.com itself showing 83.8% Windows users with 64% of total users preferring Firefox.
Firefox 2.0 will be available as a 5meg download from www.getfirefox.com
A comprehensive review of the new features found in Firefox 2.0 can be found here
The Irish government has begun issuing RFID passports with biometric data that can be read at a distance to comply with US regulations for its visa waiver programme.
But unlike the RFID passports the USA is now issuing, the Irish ones lack a security feature preventing them from being skimmed, or read surreptitiously.
The US government has gone to the trouble of fitting its passports with a layer of foil that interferes with skimming attempts when the document is closed. The Irish government has not. A local lobbying outfit called Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has complained that the new passports are ripe for remote privacy invasion. As of course they are.
Unfortunately, DRI has taken that a step further, fretting in a recent interview with the Sunday Times that the unprotected passports could leave Irish travelers “open to targeting by terrorists”.
Read More : The Register - Irish passports go RFID, and naked
As some of you may have noticed, 2600uk.com has dropped off the face of the Google planet. Asking around it would appear that a number of other websites have also fallen from googles grace and, interestingly enough, each of those interviewed contained information on the darkside of Googles CodeSearch facility.
I swift email to Google produced no reply and checking Google’s cache of 2600uk.com lists our CodeSearch post at the top spot. With its frequent intrusion in to our lives not enough, could it be that Google is also trying to censor those with whom it fails to agree?
I’ve always said, “He who controls Google, controls the world”. Yet with the Google hole becoming ever deeper, it wouldn’t be ludicrous to suggest that Google itself will fall from grace in the not too distant future.
Update: It looks like Google has now relisted the site. Interestingly this comes as the CodeSearch post drops off the homepage and into the archives. Again, there has been no response to previous emails querying Google.
A bit of background information…
Terrorstorm is a documentary made by Alex Jones & Infowars; which sheds light on issues such as the NWO, 911 and past government false flag operations. This documentary is pretty powerful and as such has had millions of viewings on Google video.
However, Google has reset Terrorstorm’s place in the “top 100″ list over 4 times now, they have admitted to this in a recent press statement but it is still unclear as to why they have done it or who is making them.
This is quite clearly an attempt to reduce ratings and avoid it becoming as big as “Loose Change” and other such documentaries.
Its becoming increasingly clear that the government is stamping all over pro-freedom material in an attempt to silence and squash the growth of “free-thinkers” and anti-NWO activists.
For those of you who are thinking “So what?! Who gives a shit about crackpot conspiracy theorists” you couldnt be MORE wrong, the government is attempting to make websites that host videos require a special broadcasting license. This one act would fundamentally devastate the freedom of the internet and pave the way for many more laws to destroy the internet as we currently know it.
The “reasoning” behind such legislation is said to be in order to set minimum standards on areas such as hate speech and the protection of children.
Its quite obvious that they throw in “protection of children” to make it sit better with clueless pram pushing fools and tree hugging techno-weenies, they also link “hate speech” to terrorism to make that sit better with the supposed “pro-freespeech” MP’s.
As many of you will know, the U.S. Air Force is preparing to create a new command to develop techniques for fighting in cyberspace, how long will it be before security websites that provide exploits and exploit tutorials get shut down because they could “provide terrorists with tools to harm the national infrastructure”?.
Do you want to get shoved in one of the many opening FIMA camps for being a terrorist just because you know something which the government class as “dangerous”????
We must wake up and get involved in the fight for our freedom before its too late!
Check out this article by the London Times for more information.
As the standard 419 scams become common knowledge, idiot fraudsters are looking for more ways in which to dupe the naive societies of the western world.
In their latest attempt, scammers operating from Amsterdamn and Rotterdamn have cloned well known courier websites, such as DHL and Lufthansa Cargo, in a bid to defraud the common citizen.
The new scam works like this; Potential fraudsters advertise used motor vehicles on popular sites, such as autotrader and car.com, for next to nothing. Would be buyers then discover that the item is housed abroad, often in Spain or another European country. At this point the fraudsters inform the buyer that transport costs need to be paid in advance, and recommend couriers such as “DHL Shippers” and “Lufthansa Worldwide Cargo”, and polished escrow services.
Of course the items dont exist. The advance fee is taken and nothing more is heard from the seller. The transport company websites use branding from the websites they mock in an effort to appear legit. The obvious advice to anyone looking at buying a used car or bike is that if it looks too good to be true, then it probably is. Refrain from buying items that require shipping from abroad and never pay upfront to unknown sellers.
(Please note that DHL Shippers and Lufthansa Worldwide Cargo are fictional companies used by scam scum.)
At the beginning of the second half of 2006, British Telecom began the migration of approximately 350,000 customers in the Cardiff, Bridgend and Pontypridd areas (UK) to an extraordinary new telecommunications network, a network that will radically transform the way in which we communicate. But what exactly is 21CN?
The initial release of our 21CN article series is now available at the following location.
http://www.2600uk.com/21st-century-network/
Be sure to check back as more articles and announcements are released and additional information becomes available.
From The Register’s John Leyden:
The Swiss government is “considering” the use of a spyware application called Superintendent Trojan to eavesdrop on IP telephony conversation, Heise Security reports.
Swiss firm ERA IT Solutions said it hopes to supply the Superintendent Trojan only to government agencies, a policy it hopes will leave it off malware blacklists compiled by anti-virus and anti-spyware developers.
Even if we accept ERA’s assertion that the use of the technology would be restricted to government agencies, anti-virus firms would be honour bound to blacklist the app if any of their customers complained about it.
As well as allowing VoIP calls to be monitored, the software is surreptitiously turning on the built-in microphones or webcams on target PCs. All this assumes, of course, that the software can be successfully planted in the first place - a tricky proposition without physical access to a PC, as HP leak gum-shoes might attest.
Altogether the plan seems fraught with difficulties, without even considering whether evidence obtained via such covert methods would be legally submittable.
Charles Gudet, the head of the Special Services Department at UVEK (the Swiss government department in charge of telecoms, among other things), told Sonntags Zeitung there’s no basis for using such Trojan techniques under federal wiretap laws (such as the Federal Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Act). However, local laws and federal police procedures permit the use of software wiretaps providing surveillance has being authorised by a court.
Source: The Register - Swiss gov ‘mulls’ spyware to tap VoIP calls
The U.S. Air Force is preparing to create a new command to develop techniques for fighting in cyberspace. Air Force Print News reported Oct. 5 that Air Force leaders will gather in Washington in early November to discuss the plans. On Dec. 7, 2005, cyberspace became an official Air Force domain after Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. T. Michael Moseley introduced a new mission statement.
The statement informed Air Force personnel that their new mission was to “deliver sovereign options for the defense of the United States of America and its global interests — to fly and fight in air, space and cyberspace.”
Moseley said that Air Force leaders establishing a new “cyber command” to be responsible for fighting in that domain, commenting: “To deliver the full spectrum of effects we will evolve a coherent enterprise, with war fighting ethos, ready to execute any mission in peace, crisis and war. We will foster a force of 21st Century warriors, capable of delivering the full spectrum of kinetic and non-kinetic, lethal and non-lethal effects across all three domains. This is why we are standing up an operational command for cyberspace, capable of functioning as a supported or supporting component of the joint force.”
The following text is taken from Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com
Each time a new flash application requests permission to run on newer computers, you will notice that a privacy setting box pops up asking if the particular website you are surfing can access your microphone and webcam. Though the webcam is external, the microphone is internal and is a standard feature of all new models.
Now Google have announced that they will use in-built microphones to listen in on user’s background noise, be it television, music or radio - and then direct advertising at them based on their preferences.
“The idea is to use the existing PC microphone to listen to whatever is heard in the background, be it music, your phone going off or the TV turned down. The PC then identifies it, using fingerprinting, and then shows you relevant content, whether that’s adverts or search results, or a chat room on the subject,” reports the Register.
Google’s ceaseless drive to dominate Microsoft and reap untold profits has come at the expense of privacy as the company jettison’s its “don’t be evil” mandate and merges itself into a proxy NSA outfit, creating all the tools necessary for the state to suffocate its subjects under an inescapable high-tech panopticon control grid.
