By Devin Coldewey Want to switch off the living room lights from bed, change channels while washing dishes, or turn the heat up from the couch? A team at the University of Washington has rigged a standard Wi-Fi home network to detect your movements anywhere in the home and convert them into commands to control connected devices.
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Turkish government networks were hacked on Wednesday, compromising the private information of staffers in PM Tayyip Erdogan’s office, a source in PM’s office confirmed to Reuters. The attack was in support of the ongoing anti-government protests.
By Ryan Gallagher It appears the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance is not something only Verizon customers should be concerned about. The agency has also reportedly obtained access to the central servers of major U.S. Internet companies as part of a secret program that involves the monitoring of emails, file transfers, photos, videos, chats, and even live surveillance of search terms.
The state of Connecticut has become the first to successfully enact a law requiring food containing genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, though it comes with the unusual requirement that four other states must pass similar legislation. Though supporters of GMO product labeling will likely laud the state legislature’s approval of the new bill, it represents a significant weakening of the initial proposal with the introduction of a bipartisan ‘compromise’
By Natasha Lennard For Thomas Drake, the former National Security Agency employee who blew the whistle on the agency’s expansive post-9/11 surveillance programs in 2006, the latest revelation of blanket surveillance is simply “déjà vu.”
The US Transportation Security Administration is unable to prove that an expensive and controversial pat-down program does not screen airline passengers based on race, according to a report by the inspector general in the Department of Homeland Security. The Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) program was instituted in 2004 and has long been criticized for allowing untrained officers to use race as an excuse to scrutinize travelers.
A four-story building has collapsed in central Philadelphia, killing two people and injuring over a dozen. Rescuers have pulled 13 people from the rubble, while at least two remain unaccounted for. The accident occurred at 10:45am local time in a pair of four-story buildings, reportedly slated for demolition, on the corner of 22nd and Market Streets.
The chairwoman of the US Senate Intelligence committee has said that the state has been collecting the telephone records of millions of US Verizon customers since 2006, and the order is a three-month renewal of a continuing practice.
Executive Order — Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions Set Forth in the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012 and Additional Sanctions with Respect To Iran
The first week of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning’s military trial wrapped up Wednesday, recessing until next week when the court-martial of the Army private will resume with a new roster of witnesses scheduled to take the stand.
by Evan McMurry Addressing the NSA’s phone data grab on Bill O’Reilly’s show Thursday night, Laura Ingraham strayed into rethinking the haste with which the Patriot Act was passed in 2001. “To be fair on the surveillance deal,” O’Reilly admitted, “it started under the Bush administration, apparently. It has continued and expanded under President Obama, with 121 million Americans being a part of Verizon deal. All our records are in the hands of the government.
By Gianni Valente Francis had spoken about geographical peripheries and more importantly about existential peripheries, like the mystery of sin, pain, the lack of faith and “every form of misery”, in his address to fellow cardinals before the Conclave. In this morning’s mass at St. Martha’s House the Pope described what it means to show Christian kindness to those who are in so much pain that they curse the day they were born and hope to die. With the evangelical freedom that is typical of Francis’ speeches, the Pope managed to dodge the misleading diatribes about values which often make…
During the world’s most secretive gathering the Bilderberg Group is set to discuss topics including cyber warfare, US foreign policy, “developments in the Middle East” and “Africa’s challenges” despite the glaring absence of regional representatives. The Bilderberg Group, long criticized for a lack of transparency, has revealed details of its upcoming meeting. This year 138 politicians
BY DAVID KRAVETS If a judge orders you to decrypt the only existing copies of incriminating files, are your constitutional rights against compelled self-incrimination being violated? That’s the provocative question being raised as a Wisconsin man faces a deadline today either to give up his encryption keys or risk indefinite imprisonment without a trial. The defendant’s attorney, Robin Shellow of Milwaukee, said it’s “one of the most important constitutional issues of the wired era.”
By Brett LoGiurato The National Security Agency and FBI have been engaging in a highly classified program that mines data from leading U.S. internet companies, according to a bombshell report in The Washington Post Thursday night. The program is code-named PRISM, and the Post reports that it was established in 2007. According to the report
The U.S. is holding 27,000 kidnapped people in secret prisons including thirty-two ‘ghost ships’ according to Reprieve Founding Director, Attorney Clive Stafford Smith. Reprieve is a London based non-profit organization using law to enforce human rights ‘from Guantanamo Bay to Death Row.’ The organization has been dedicated to helping people kidnapped, tortured and used for experimentation in America’s planet battlefield ‘war on terror’ system.
By Carey Gillam A U.S. wheat farmer has sued Monsanto Co, accusing the biotech seed giant of gross negligence for not containing an experimental genetically modified wheat discovered in an Oregon field that has put U.S. wheat export sales at risk.
About 25 Twitter users have been arrested in Turkey on charges of inciting demonstrations and spreading propaganda following days of at times violent protests against the government, CNN Turk reported Wednesday. Nine of those arrested were detained in the city of Izmir. It remained unclear which comments on the microblogging site prompted the detentions.