Sunday, July 6, 2025

It Costs The NSA Almost Nothing To Tap Your Mobile Phone [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Snowden leaks of 2013 revealed the frightening and possibly abusive global capabilities of the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA). But you have nothing to worry about as a a good guy, right? Wrong. A fairly disturbing new paper in the Yale Law Journal illustrates how cheap it is for the NSA to track an […]

At What Point Do We Panic? Security Firm Develops Software To Work Out Exactly Where You Are – All The Time

In this video above, Raytheon’s “principal investigator” Brian Urch explains how their Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT) software uses photographs uploaded to social networks and data logged by networks like Foursquare, Facebook and Twitter to determine the exact, real time location of an individual. These images sometimes contain latitude and longitude details – automatically embedded […]

Nestle’s Creepy Mandate To UK Customers, “We Will Find You”

In an attempt to recreate Willy Wonka’s famous “Golden Ticket”, Nestle has launched a new, not-dodgy-at-all, marketing campaign. They will be “stalking” six “lucky” customers using GPS-trackers that have been embedded in selected chocolate bars.

Hey Guys, TomTom Is Sharing Your Data Too

And you thought it was just Apple and Google! Gosh. TomTom has admitted that its satellite navigation devices can track users and report to third parties about how fast they’re going – like the police, for instance. Your TomTom is a speed camera now.Yay future.

We Can Barcode Animals Now

The University of Illinois, collaborating with the Equid Research and Conservation lab at Princeton, have put together software that can uniquely identify any striped, spotted or otherwise marked animal with a clear digital photo. Like a barcode!