According to opinion polls in both the US and Britain, a whopping 75% of those surveyed wanted more, not less, surveillance. For better or worse that wish is quickly being fulfilled, and when it comes to surveillance tech, the US is clearly leading the pack.
There was a time when you could walk down the street with an index finger on a spelunking mission, fairly sure the world wouldn't share a chuckle over a photo of the act. Thanks to the Street View feature of Google Maps, Murphy's Law dictates that this will happen to you. Tomorrow. The defense? Wear a very large hat.
Scientists and industry have been working together to create a global surveillance network. It naturally weights itself to provide greater coverage for greater populations, contains more distributed computing power than the entirety of NASA, doesn't cost a single tax dollar and people waste it all talking about 'Lost'. Yes, you and your cellphone friends are part of one of the most powerful network in the world and researchers at Purdue University have found a more important use for it than arguing about where to eat lunch.
In an advance so ironic it could be an Alanis Morisette lyric, army spy planes are being reconfigured to act as medical couriers. By transporting blood samples, transfusion packs or medicines these automatic aircraft could save lives where no other transport options can reach.
Are you having trouble with funding? Is your research unable to attract major media attention? Just add Terror (TM)! That's what Dr Stoica of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did, and it could work for you too.
Dr Stoica's research is based on gait analysis - the idea that everyone has a distinctive walking pattern, and no matter how many fake beards or dark glasses you put on you can't disguise your stride unless you're wearing so many your knees break.
I wonder if anyone in the CIA Google'd the Treadstone Project? Where is Robert Ludlum when we need him!
With the increasing intensity of global USA and British electronic and
satellite surveillance of al Qaeda, the leadership of the global
terrorist groups have gone "dark," an unintended consequence of
successful surveillance by NSA and other intelligence sources -many using sophisticated keyword analysis of the daily global electronic communications traffic.
To make the spooks job even more difficult, most of the top terrorists have switched from using satellite phones and email to
employing centuries-old hand-delivered messenger networks, cutouts at
Internet cafes, and a vast network of honey stores that have existed
throughout the Islamic world since biblical times to generate income
and secretly move weapons, drugs, and agents.
Like a scene out of a sci-fi version of Miami Vice, Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, drone technology to beef up their fight against crime.
You can run, but you can't hide!
For the past decade, Pentagon-backed researchers have been trying to create cyborg insects that could serve as living, virtual remote-controlled spies. Until recently, the '007 bugs have never survived long enough to provide real intelligence. Now, Georgia Tech professor Robert Michelson says he's managed to get the insect 'borgs to live into adulthood.
When somebody tells you that they're being spied on by giant flying insect cameras, the standard response is to back away carefully not making any sudden moves. This should not be changed by the fact that soon, they'll be right.
The Department of Homeland Security recently announced the development of futuristic sounding technology with a bizarre “Minority Report” twist. The criminals they’re looking for haven’t committed a crime yet.
The program called Project Hostile Intent is part of the Human Factors Division of the DHS. DHS says that they need a way to detect possible “future” terrorists without a criminal past and with no known ties to terrorist organizations and therefore do not appear in any government databases. The technology will use advanced biometric technology in an attempt to “read minds” of people in public places, like airports.
According to opinion polls in both the US and Britain, a whopping 75% of those surveyed wanted more, not less, surveillance. For better or worse that wish is quickly being fulfilled, and when it comes to surveillance tech, the US is clearly leading the pack.
There was a time when you could walk down the street with an index finger on a spelunking mission, fairly sure the world wouldn't share a chuckle over a photo of the act. Thanks to the Street View feature of Google Maps, Murphy's Law dictates that this will happen to you. Tomorrow. The defense? Wear a very large hat.
Scientists and industry have been working together to create a global surveillance network. It naturally weights itself to provide greater coverage for greater populations, contains more distributed computing power than the entirety of NASA, doesn't cost a single tax dollar and people waste it all talking about 'Lost'. Yes, you and your cellphone friends are part of one of the most powerful network in the world and researchers at Purdue University have found a more important use for it than arguing about where to eat lunch.
In an advance so ironic it could be an Alanis Morisette lyric, army spy planes are being reconfigured to act as medical couriers. By transporting blood samples, transfusion packs or medicines these automatic aircraft could save lives where no other transport options can reach.
Are you having trouble with funding? Is your research unable to attract major media attention? Just add Terror (TM)! That's what Dr Stoica of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did, and it could work for you too.
Dr Stoica's research is based on gait analysis - the idea that everyone has a distinctive walking pattern, and no matter how many fake beards or dark glasses you put on you can't disguise your stride unless you're wearing so many your knees break.
I wonder if anyone in the CIA Google'd the Treadstone Project? Where is Robert Ludlum when we need him!
With the increasing intensity of global USA and British electronic and
satellite surveillance of al Qaeda, the leadership of the global
terrorist groups have gone "dark," an unintended consequence of
successful surveillance by NSA and other intelligence sources -many using sophisticated keyword analysis of the daily global electronic communications traffic.
To make the spooks job even more difficult, most of the top terrorists have switched from using satellite phones and email to
employing centuries-old hand-delivered messenger networks, cutouts at
Internet cafes, and a vast network of honey stores that have existed
throughout the Islamic world since biblical times to generate income
and secretly move weapons, drugs, and agents.
Like a scene out of a sci-fi version of Miami Vice, Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, drone technology to beef up their fight against crime.
You can run, but you can't hide!
For the past decade, Pentagon-backed researchers have been trying to create cyborg insects that could serve as living, virtual remote-controlled spies. Until recently, the '007 bugs have never survived long enough to provide real intelligence. Now, Georgia Tech professor Robert Michelson says he's managed to get the insect 'borgs to live into adulthood.
When somebody tells you that they're being spied on by giant flying insect cameras, the standard response is to back away carefully not making any sudden moves. This should not be changed by the fact that soon, they'll be right.
The Department of Homeland Security recently announced the development of futuristic sounding technology with a bizarre “Minority Report” twist. The criminals they’re looking for haven’t committed a crime yet.
The program called Project Hostile Intent is part of the Human Factors Division of the DHS. DHS says that they need a way to detect possible “future” terrorists without a criminal past and with no known ties to terrorist organizations and therefore do not appear in any government databases. The technology will use advanced biometric technology in an attempt to “read minds” of people in public places, like airports.
According to opinion polls in both the US and Britain, a whopping 75% of those surveyed wanted more, not less, surveillance. For better or worse that wish is quickly being fulfilled, and when it comes to surveillance tech, the US is clearly leading the pack.
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