Sepp Hasslberger: ABC Censors Wi-Fi Risk Story

07 Health, Corruption, IO Impotency, Media
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Report about WiFi health effects aired in Australia was found to be too revealing and was withdrawn, along with a suspension of the reporter… was industry applying pressure?

ABC Censors Catalyst Wifi Report, Suspends Reporter, and Embarrasses Itself

Why the censorship, ABC? “Wi-Fried”: Why fried? What is the ABC trying to hide by taking down the Catalyst wifi report (February 2016) by Dr Maryanne Demasi? Who are they covering for? (Well, okay, that should be fairly obvious.) Perhaps “ABC” is really an acronym for Abominable Broadcasting Censorship?

 

Mongoose: ATM Skimmer Alert

IO Impotency
Mongoose
Mongoose

Tip of the Hat to Benjamin Tedesco at LinkedIn.

Finding an ATM Skimmer: It pays to be paranoid!

While on vacation with my family in Vienna, Austria, I went to grab some cash from an ATM. Being security paranoid, I repeated my typical habit of checking the card reader with my hand as I have 100's of times… today's the day when my security awareness paid off! Check out  my discovery of a custom made card skimmer that perfectly matches up to this ATM machine!

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Antechinus: GAO Says Huge FBI Facial Recognition Database Flawed…

Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Law Enforcement
Antechinus
Antechinus

Huge FBI facial recognition database flawed: GAO audit

The FBI's facial recognition database of 411 million photos includes some 30 million criminal mugshots, drivers' license pictures from 16 US states, 140 million images from visa applications by foreign nationals and 6.7 million photos of individuals detained by US forces abroad, but lacks adequate safeguards for accuracy and privacy protection, a congressional audit shows. Alvaro Bedoya, who heads the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University's law school, called the report “startling,” saying it revealed that facial recognition is being used on a much larger scale than had been disclosed.

 

Stephen E. Arnold: Search Engine Intelligence Gathering — Interview with Singularity Weblog’s Nikola Danaylov

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Government, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

If you are curious to learn more about the purveyor of the Beyond Search blog, you should check out Singularity’s interview with “Stephen E Arnold On Search Engine And Intelligence Gathering.”  A little bit of background about Arnold is that he is an expert specialist in content processing, indexing, online search as well as the author of seven books and monographs.  His past employment record includes Booz, Allen, & Hamilton (Edward Snowden was a contractor for this company), Courier Journal & Louisville Times, and Halliburton Nuclear.  He worked on the US government’s Threat Open Source Intelligence Service and developed a cost analysis, technical infrastructure, and security for the FirstGov.gov. Singualrity’s interview covers a variety of topics and, of course, includes Arnold’s direct sense of humor:

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