Check to See if You’re On the No-Fly List, Maybe
A company who's trying to seel their solution to the TSA is out to prove that the no-fly list is bogus. By going to their site, you can enter a name and see if you have a good chance of being on the no-fly list yourself. Hopefully, enough people will try this and see what a stupid idea it .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Security Theater, TSAEasily the Coolest Keyboard Ever – Optimus
I’ve seen this around before, but apparently, they’re getting closer to releasing it. What is it? A keyboard where the keys are made of tiny displays so the keyboard can change to suite the application that you’re using. Just go check it out and you’ll see what I mean.
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Google Gets the Point, Stops data brokering
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Tags: Big Business, GoogleDC Residents Get Credit Freeze Protection!
According to the Washington Post if you live in DC you are eligible for a Credit Security Freeze as of July 1st. There's a $30 fee for doing it ($10 per credit reporting company). The article fails to mention if the freeze is permanent or requires yearly fees, but it does say that if you have been a victim, .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Credit Freeze, DC, Identity TheftIdaho Tells REAL ID Act to Shove Off
Idaho has joined a growing trend of states that are flat out telling the federal government to jump off a cliff. The REAL ID act has been attacked by privacy organizations for being a national ID card which will have far reaching implications to personal freedom. Not only that, but implementation of the system is extremely expensive and .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Big Brother, George Bush, Idaho, Real ID, Security TheaterAmerican Express Plan to Tag and Track Humans Exposed, Shamed
Thanks to the good work of the people over at Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering - CASPIAN, a plot by American Express to patent technology that would "identify people, track their movements, and observe their behavior" has been exposed. According to their article:
That patent application, titled "Method and System for Facilitating a Shopping .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Walmart Profiles Customers, Treats them According to their “Value”
The Consumerist found a Walmart PowerPoint presentation outlining their new focus on profiling customers into value groups and treating them accordingly. This is not new (read my Angel/Demon Customer Profiling article for details), but the funny part of it is that WalMart is so mad that it's dirty laundry was aired, that they sent a DMCA takedown notice .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Angels and Demons, Big Business, WalmartFBI Abuses Power – Accountability No Where In Sight
Bruce Shneier says it better, with more sources, but the FBI is abusing it's powers to circumvent the subpeona process.
The Justice Department's inspector general has prepared a scathing report criticizing how the F.B.I. uses a form of administrative subpoena to obtain thousands of telephone, business and financial records without prior judicial approval. Vista Firewall Useless
There's buzz online about how a Symantec researcher has already broken Vista's firewall to pieces. This is hardly surprising, but what is surprising is how easy it was. While the firewall has a dialog box asking if a user wants to allow a program to access the Internet, Microsoft allows the program itself to click the OK button for .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Windows VistaAnd the Top Reason To Avoid Vista Is….
Microsoft has now admitted that their software validation tool will check in with Microsoft servers even if you tell it not to.
But if you cancel the installation of WGA, maybe because you dislike the privacy implications, the software will still phone home. Microsoft stresses that WGA does not take any information which could identify you as .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]