[via Wired] “Preservation of human life is a premium when one is attempting to generate support of the local population, stability and security while not increasing grievances.” – Dr. Mark Maybury . . . Maybury even lists “Metropolitan Area Persistent Sensing” — city-wide spying — as well as “micro munitions that limit collateral damage” and [...]

- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. Electronic Frontier Foundation launched an FOIA lawsuit a week ago – the outcome will be telling for the future of the United States’ many citizen-suspects. Did you mean “If the American people find out” ..?

I have had an idea of a utopian society in which Bentham’s Panopticon is realized with omnipresent surveillance and sousveillance of every citizen which is viewable by every other citizen and a sufficient number of negative votes cast against an individual results in the individual’s execution (i.e. if footage of your actions against another individual [...]

When you search for inurl:”axis-cgi/mjpg” you may find some treasures… The Monday Grind See also: inurl:”viewerframe?mode” inurl:”multicameraframe?mode” Update: and apparently there are a few sites devoted to unsecured webcams… somehow this should have occurred to me before now.

If you’ve been following along over the past few months, you’ve read about institutionalized electronic surveillance (and how to protect yourself), a public relations cover-up, fabricated news stories, where spyware comes from, collectors using cute Facebook decoys, and social networking being used against its users – there’s a good chance that you won’t be surprised [...]

An addendum to my prior post regarding Civilian Information Networks as Weapons and Intelligence should duly include a reference to additional evidence of Iran’s leverage of information networks against its citizens. In commenting upon the potentially-positive aspects of mass surveillance, Sherri Davidoff, an independent security consultant, has this to say: Here’s an e-affirmative action proposal: [...]

George Orwell’s Big Brother represents the totalitarian rule of the party: a figure of dubious veracity imbued with absolute authority and control whose omniscient watch over its subjects is permanent and unquestionable. Surveillance underpins the efforts of any totalitarian state – the power of an authority is limited to the information upon which it may [...]

The basis for my short, sweet, and to-the-point The time has finally come… post – Short Cuts by Daniel Soar – has made it to cnet news for an “exclusive” review of ThorpeGlen‘s telecommunications data analysis and extraction offerings. With the passage of laws like the FISA Amendments Act and the USA Patriot Act, in [...]

It is official… you are not alone. You are not anonymous. You are watched. If you want to see how ThorpeGlen’s systems work for yourself, just log on to https://81.143.55.50:58443; all you need to do is figure out a username and password. Who isn’t a spy now?