spies
Random Stuff
Want to Be the Real Q? Apply Here
9:25PM Jesus Diaz | If you want to be the gadget inventor for Her Majesty’s Intelligence Service, the MI5—British Military Intelligence Section 5— is actually offering the real post now. The best thing: It’s part-time. More »
Random Stuff
Scary: Spies Have Totally Infilitrated Our Electricity Grid
12:10AM Matt Buchanan | This is frightening: Cyberspies from China and Russia have penetrated the US electricity grid, leaving behind software that could be triggered to mess up our infrastructure, reports the WSJ.
Business
Microsoft Says Former Employee Spied On Them For His Startup Company
6:00AM Sean Fallon | The guys at SeattlePi have uncovered a bit of espionage going on in Redmond. According to Microsoft, a former employee took a position with the company in order to spy on them for his startup. More »
Press
PlayStation Cases, The Tools of International Espionage
3:20AM Mark Wilson | Harold Nicholson was a CIA operative convicted of espionage for selling CIA identities to Russia. Since 1997, he’s been in jail. But allegedly, his son Nathan has carried on the family business… More »
Gadgets
Pentagon Mitex Satellites Are the First to Actively Spy… On Other Satellites!
8:30AM Jack Loftus | Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? If we’re talking spy satellites, the answer this week became “U.S. satellites,” two of which completed a first-of-its kind manoeuvre that had wide-ranging ramifications for all satellites currently in orbit. More »
Gadgets
DIY Laser Communicator Sure to Create Wannabe Geek Super Spies
3:00AM Jack Loftus | This handy DIY laser pointer communicator requires little more than time, an old laser pointer, some parts from your local RadioShack, and, of course, a tuxedo. More »
Gadgets
Hollow Spy Coins Are Perfect Metaphor of Current Economy
11:45PM Jesus Diaz | Back in the good old days of the Cold War, spies didn’t have encrypted mobile phones or digital thingamajigs to do their thing, so they did their spy business with classic spy stuff like spy camera-pens, spy shoe transmitters, spy bacon strips, and messages encoded on their spy underpants. Or these Hollow Spy Coins, which were used by the CIA and the KGB to hide poison or microfilms. Now you can buy them to store whatever is small enough to fit in them, like discarded nail bits. The coins are still in use by modern spies, however: Last year, the US Department of Defence cautioned its American contractors about hollow Canadian coins containing radio transmitters. More »
Design
IBM Laptop Concept Features Built-In Scanner, Shredder
3:20AM Sean Fallon | Whether you are a spy or a shady CEO, this laptop concept by Nicolas Lehotzky has features that will fit the bill. I’m not crazy about the giant protruding lock / finger scanner, and the USB slots hidden behind a lockable metal cap may be a bit of a nuisance—but I love the built in scanner and paper shredder to archive and / or eliminate incriminating evidence. I’m sure a product like be snatched up lightning quick by corporate America. [Coroflot via The Awesomer via Ubergizmo] More »
Cameras
Google GeoEye-1 Satellite Takes First Pic (Is that Your House?)
12:50PM Wilson Rothman | We warned you that Google would soon be snapping shots of your backyard with GeoEye-1, a military-controlled satellite with the highest-resolution terrestrial camera now in orbit. Well, yesterday at high noon Eastern time, Larry and Sergei’s little baby started snapping. But according to Wired, GeoEye’s communications guy says “this is the opposite of a spy satellite.” More »
Cameras
