Browsing Posts published in November, 2007
Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn—and the West is struggling to keep up
First They Team Up with NSA
Now AT&T wants to FILTER your content.
Where are the damn politicians with their stupid laws when you need them?
As mentioned last week, AT&T has been testing copyright filtering technology from Vobile called “Video DNA,” which the company claims has “a near-zero false positive rate.” This week theWall Street Journal reports that AT&T has become an investor in the company alongside Disney. AT&T is the first U.S. ISP to announce they’ll voluntarily deploy anti-piracy filters across their entire network.
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By publishing his TOR hack, Swedish researcher Dan Egerstadt recently provided users with a timely reminder that The Onion Router (TOR) anonymisation network should be enjoyed with caution. By setting up five exit-nodes, Egerstad sniffed out large amounts of e-mail access data from embassies and government agencies and published some of this data on the internet. Since a user cannot know who operates the individual exit-node through which his traffic passes, TOR users are advised to always make use of additional encryption.
Consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure, according to a study released Monday.
The Transportation Security Administration touts its programs to ensure security by using undercover operatives to test its airport screeners. In one instance, however, the agency thwarted such a test by alerting screeners across the country that it was under way, even providing descriptions of the undercover agents.
Defense comes to forefront at China’s Communist Party Congressina’s President Hu Talks IT WarfarePresident Hu Talks IT Warfare
We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.
