H/T Montana A USSOCOM to Use AI to Detect Disinformation Threats on Social Media For an Example of how AI can be used for Mass Deception, check out this Deep Fake of DeSantis “Dropping Out” of the 2024 Presidential Race. Tell me that does not look like a Polished Media Sound…
Category: Technology
The Surveillance State: The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect ‘Sentiment and Emotion’
H/T Lenny Ladner The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect ‘Sentiment and Emotion’ Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security, has bought millions of dollars worth of software from a company that uses artificial intelligence to detect “sentiment and emotion” in online posts, according to a…
The Surveillance State: Dronesense – A Spectrum Scanning Jammer and Controller for Drones
H/T WRSA Dronesense: A Limesdr Based Drone Detector and Jammer Over on the LimeSDR CrowdSupply blog, Ogün Levent has submitted a short article about his “Dronesense” project. Dronsense is a spectrum-scanning and jamming system based on the LimeSDR. The LimeSDR is a US$299 12-bit TX/RX capable SDR that can tune between 100 kHz –…
Smile, the Brave New World is Here
Facial Recognition is required to use almost all public services in China including cell phones.
Comm Corner: Encrypted Radio Comms Compromised
H/T WRSA An Intentional Backdoor discovered in Encrypted Radio Comms used Globally for over 25 years. Via Source Article from WIRED. This backdoor could allow someone to snoop on communications and potentially send harmful commands. The researchers also found a second vulnerability that could let someone decrypt encrypted voice and data communications…
Literary Corner: Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World
Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World “Those who don’t build must burn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth,…
Know Your WW2 Weapons: The German Panzerfaust
Panzerfaust — The Story of Germany’s “Tank Fist” Panzerfaust literally translates to “tank fist,” and it was one of several desperation weapons fielded by the Germans in the closing months of World War II to blunt the Soviet juggernaut and the increasing threats on the Western Front. First developed in 1942, as Germany’s fortunes…
A.I.: The New Buzzword
The following article was published over at Politically Incorrect Daily. The New Buzzword Working in I.T. for over 25 years, I often get a chuckle when business manageers and the media starts touting the latest tech buzzword, making it sound way more complicated and science fictiony than it really is. Growing…
Dystopianism Becoming Painfully Accurate
The Surveillance State: Cell phone Surveillance, Can They Hear You Now?
CELL PHONE SURVEILLANCE: CAN THEY HEAR YOU NOW? It’s safe to assume our readers fall into one of two groups: you know your cell phone tracks you constantly without your permission, or you’re unaware of the potentially serious privacy risks from the neat little device in your pocket. Being in the latter category doesn’t make you wrong…