Seeing Through Shower Curtains and Other Light Scattering Materials

via Gizmodo.com...Taking a shower while secure in the knowledge that no one can see through the curtains may soon be a thing of the past. Researchers Ori Katz, Eran Small and Yaron Silberberg of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, have developed a method for de-scattering light to form coherent images in real time. In other words, they have found a way to look through shower curtains, frosted glass and other image-blurring materials....

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The Washington-Moscow Hotline

(Updated: August 28, 2013)In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended and the world was saved from falling into a nuclear war. In order to prevent this risk in the future, the United States and the Sovjet Union established a direct communication line between their two capitals in August 1963. This Washington-Moscow Hotline became one of the most famous top level communications systems in modern history. In popular culture, the Washington-Moscow...

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Maltego - For the PI and Security Director of the Future

via techhive.com...What Maltego does is quickly and succinctly draws on public data sources to put together a graphical digital footprint...Click to enlarge.Maltego is highly efficient at quickly assembling digital crumbs and linking those pieces together, which would be tedious work otherwise. Roelof Temmingh (co-creator) used Maltego to search Twitter with coordinates for the vicinity of the NSA's parking lot... Temmingh pulled up a web of...

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FBI Issues Warning Regarding Android Malware

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued a warning alerting users about malware that targets the Android mobile operating system. The intelligence note from the IC3 was issued last week, and highlighted on Monday by Apple 2.0. It noted there are various forms of malware out in the wild that attack Android devices. Two forms of malware cited byt he IC3 are Loozfon, which steals information from users, and FinFisher, which can give...

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New Burglar Alarm... not for you, for the burglar.

Criminals no longer need to stake out a home or a business to monitor the inhabitants' comings and goings. Now they can simply pick up wireless signals broadcast by the building's utility meters.In the US, analogue meters that measure water, gas and electricity consumption are being replaced by automated meter reading (AMR) technology. Nearly a third of the country's meters - more than 40 million - have already been changed. The new time-saving devices...

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Bike Race Dopes - Another DIY TSCM Failure

via a Blue Blaze Irregular...On page 218 of the new book, "The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs" by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle, is a description of the TSCM techniques allegedly used by the U.S. Postal Service cycling team against covert audio and video surveillance: "According to Landis, Postal performed two transfusions to the entire team during the 2004 Tour de France. The first was after the first rest day in a hotel in Limoges. Riders were taken in small groups to...

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$89.99 Wi-Fi Bug You Control With Your iPhone... from anywhere!

"WeMo Baby conveniently turns your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into a baby monitor so you don't have to carry an extra device to keep in touch with your baby. It works with your existing Wi-Fi router to wirelessly stream audio from your baby's room to your mobile device." (more)Why is this scary?• It will be repackaged into a covert listening device.• Unlike previous baby-mon mods, this one is digital.• Its signal hides among legitimate...

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Common Problem - Technology Outpaces Spies

Australia's domestic spy agency has revealed there have been intelligence failures in recent years because of changing technology. Speaking exclusively to Radio National's Background Briefing program, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) director-general David Irvine says new ways of communicating electronically are white-anting* his agency's surveillance powers."We have had not near misses, we have had misses," he said."In recent...

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Today in Eavesdropping History

On Oct. 20, 1973, in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, President Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox, accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus. (more)...

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Chinese Communications Equipment Maker ZTE Cuts Connection with Surveillance Equipment Maker ZTEsec

Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE has sold its majority stake in ZTE Special Equipment (ZTEsec) – a company that sells surveillance systems.The under-fire Shenzhen-based firm said in a little-publicized filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the end of September that it would “dispose of its 68 per cent equity interests” in ZTEsec. (more)Apparently not in time to impress Congress. (pdf of repo...

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Silent Circle Has Launched - An Affordable Secure Communications Package

Their opening salvo..."We want to fight for your right to privacy. We are pushing back against the tide of surveillance. We don’t like oppressive regimes, indiscriminate wiretapping, big brother, data criminals, intellectual property theft, identity thieves or governments that persecute their citizens for saying or writing their opinions." — Silent CircleServices: • Silent Phone• Silent Text (with a self-destructing feature) • Silent Eyes (video call encryption)• Silent Mail (coming soon)All sold together as Silent Suite for $20.00 per month. Coming...

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Future Room Lighting to Double as Light "Wi-Fi"... or eavesdropping device.

VLC transmits data wirelessly using visible light as its medium instead of radio waves... Harold Haas, professor of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh, successfully demonstrated the VLC technology at a TED conference. He streamed a HD video to a screen using a LED light bulb as transmitter.Haas co-founded PureVLC, a corporate spin-off of the university’s research project, to turn the technology into commercially viable devices....

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