How East Germany’s Stasi Perfected Mass Surveillance The state has a monopoly on violence. However, abusive repression harms government credibility and alienates public support in the long run. A more subtle and effective way to exercise power is to surveil the population and to prevent open manifestations of discontent. This article analyzes the case…
Tag: The Surveillance State
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,…