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Surveillance State: Proof “Being the Gray Man” is an Urban Myth

Posted on 5 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you.   It’s time to come to terms with the fact that regardless of how “off the grid” or “careful” or “Gray” you THINK you are online, you have been made. An extensive online profile exist…

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Cyber-War: The Big Hack of NYC

Posted on 21 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A scenario that could happen based on what already has.   On December 4, 2017, at a little before nine in the morning, an executive at Goldman Sachs was swiping through the day’s market report in the backseat of a hired SUV heading south on the West Side Highway when his car suddenly swerved to the…

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Surveillance State: Hackers Have Found a Pulsating New Way to Spy on You on Your Phone and FitBit

Posted on 8 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Hackers may be pickin’ up good vibrations from your phone. All the better to surveil you with, my dear. Researchers at the Electrical and Computer Engineering school of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discovered that the vibration motor in your devices can operate like a microphone, according to the researchers’ paper. That means, if…

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Surveillance State: DIVA Software Designed to Spot Suspicous Behavior BEFORE it Happens

Posted on 7 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

The program is called Deep Intermodal Video Analytics—or DIVA—and it seeks to locate shooters and terrorists before they strike. The intelligence community is working on amping up people-recognition power to spot, in live videos, shooters and potential terrorists before they have a chance to attack. Part of the problem with current video surveillance techniques is the difficulty…

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Surveillance State: Warrantless Cell Tracking Now Legal

Posted on 1 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

One more thing to check off in that very short list of “Reasonable Expectations of Privacy”. Whats Next I wonder? -SF A split federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that police do not need a search warrant before obtaining cell tower location data that can trace the long-term movements of a suspect’s mobile phone, while conceding…

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Surveillance State: New Israeli Facial Imaging Claims to Be Able to ID Terrorist and Pedophiles?

Posted on 25 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

I know we joke a lot about national security technology becoming more and more like “Minority Report”, but folks, this is already been purchased by DHS. This is Happening. -SF “Faception” Technology can match an individual with various personality traits and types with a high level of accuracy  A  Tel-Aviv based start-up company says it…

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Surveillance State: Inside The NSA’s Real-Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG)

Posted on 18 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

It is a very common trend to see “Counter-Terrorism” programs and technology that were once used to save American Military and Civilian lives in war get re-directed to spy on American citizens in Peace time. This is something to keep in mind with this program. -SF Relentless attacks on American military personnel at the height…

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Surveillance State: Everything We Know About How the FBI Hacks People

Posted on 17 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

RECENT HEADLINES WARN that the government now has greater authority to hack your computers, in and outside the US. Changes to federal criminal court procedures known as Rule 41 are to blame; they vastly expand how and whom the FBI can legally hack. But just like the NSA’s hacking operations, FBI hacking isn’t new. In…

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The Surveillance State: Twitter and Data Mining

Posted on 9 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Twitter has barred Dataminr, a service that analyzes tweets from across the globe to inform users about news events, from providing its information to US intelligence agencies, according to the Wall Street Journal. The social network has not confirmed that it cut the agencies off from the service, which claims to have informed clients about the…

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The Surveillance State: Police are Creating Fake Social Media Accounts To Monitor You

Posted on 24 April 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Police Create Fake Profiles on Facebook and Attempt to Build Relationships Along With Monitor Your Friends and Events Kristan T. Harris | American Intelligence Report Police departments around the nation have taken predictive crime prevention to a new level by building fake user accounts, as well as posing as genuine people to gather information about local events, Tech.Mic reports….

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