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FBI Pushing Hard For Real-Time Online Spying Powers

The FBI wants more power. That’s not any particular kind of surprising, since the FBI always wants more power, but this push is notable for what’s it’s after: real-time spy privileges for online communication.

15 March 2013

Geek Out

US Air Force Is Considering A Sprawling Tunnel System For Nuclear Missiles

In an effort to upgrade its ageing nuclear weapons and accompanying silos, the US Air Force is exploring the possibility of chauffeuring its missiles around in a massive, underground network of tunnels. Driving Miss Daisy, meet the Apocalypse.

14 March 2013

Online

The NSA Is Training Covert Hackers To Attack Other Countries

For the first time, the United States has officially disclosed plans to develop counterattack measures against foreign nations’ cyberattacks. General Keith Alexander, chief of the military’s Cyber Command and the National Security Agency (NSA), told US Congress yesterday the military is training 13 teams of programmers and computer experts to carry out offensive attacks.

7 March 2013

Online

Pentagon: Let’s Threaten Nuke Strike Against Hackers

Most of us are content keeping hackers away with a firewall and decent password. But the Pentagon isn’t nearly content, and in a new report, insists we should keep our nuclear arsenal ready for internet retaliation. What could go wrong?

5 March 2013

Mobile

White House Says People Should Be Able To Unlock Phones They Own

The White House has responded to a 100,000+ signature petition opposing the recent decision by the Librarian of Congress to remove DMCA exemptions for unlocking mobile phones in the US. The official response? You should be able to unlock your phone with no legal penalty. So long as you own it.

2 March 2013

Online

This Is What The Copyright Alert System In The US Looks Like In Action

By now, you’ve heard enough about the Copyright Alert System in the US to know what it is and, perhaps, how useless it could be. But what the hell will it look like in reality?

27 February 2013

Mobile

US Government Can Use People’s Phones To Figure Out Where Someone Has Been

US court documents obtained by the American Civil Liberies Union (ACLU) reveal just how vulnerable information about people’s private lives are to prying government eyes that get a hold of their phones. It’s more than just your text messages, folks. It’s every connection point their phones have used.

26 February 2013

Online

What Is The Copyright Alert System?

The Copyright Alert System was conceived all the way back in 2011 as a new way to deal with seemingly unstoppable online piracy. It finally goes into effect in the US today, and it will impact a huge portion of American internet users. Sounds scary, but what is it exactly?

30 January 2013

Mobile

Is Unlocking Your Phone Really Illegal?

Legal protection for Americans who unlock their mobile phones to use them on other networks expired last weekend. According to the claims of major US wireless carriers, unlocking a phone bought after January 26 without your carrier’s permission violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) whether the phone is under contract or not. In a way, this is not as bad as it sounds. In other ways, it’s even worse.

3 January 2013

News

It’s Time For The US To Go Metric

The US has a love affair with imperial units: height in inches, milk in quarts, weight in pounds. You name it and it’s measured in imperial. The only problem? Imperial is dumb. The US should cast off those shackles and join the rest of the world by embracing units that make sense. It should go metric, once and for all.

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