UK Indymedia - UK Technology Newswire Archive

Ken’s Spy in the Sky: Behind the smoke and mirrors

01-04-2007 09:24

Last week Ken Livingstone was reported to have agreed to spend £12 million pounds on ‘a spy in the sky’ that will have the ability to track motorists. The truth is that the UK has already signed up for a road charging and satellite tracking scheme via an EU directive.

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University project wants YOU to help spot suspicious behaviour on CCTV

31-03-2007 13:44

Appearing around Nottingham University around the weekend, a leaflet offering 4 quid for 30 mins volunteering tells you to email Anthony Carse,

epyyamc@nottingham.ac.uk or phone mobile no. 07921 706 198 to take part.
"Absolutely anyone is suitable to undertake the experiment". "WHY NOT SEE IF YOU ARE UP TO THE CHALLENGE"

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Try out indymedia mobile on your mobile phone or PDA

30-03-2007 16:51

Over the last few weeks a crack team of developers have been slaving away on an experimental new version of the indymedia site that aims to deliver improved access for the growing number of internet enabled mobile devices. Try it out yourself...

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Ken Livingstone's Spies in the sky?

29-03-2007 22:35

Another day, another wheeze from the man who makes the Stasi look laissez-faire on surveillance, London mayor Ken Livingstone.

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Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to Speak at Oxford Students Union Next Week

28-03-2007 15:28

Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer takes time out from his busy schedule to talk to students and members of the public on the subject of technology and its effects on the modern media, and in turn politics.

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The brain scan that can read people's intentions

27-03-2007 17:38

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday February 9, 2007
The Guardian

The brain scan that can read people's intentions

Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation

Using the technology is 'like shining a torch, looking for writing on a wall'. CT image: Charles O'Rear/Corbis

A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists' ability to probe people's minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.

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Announcing IMC-UK-PHOTO

27-03-2007 00:26

A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list.

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Manchester No2ID @ Oxford Road Station, Thursday 29th March 5:30pm-6:30pm

26-03-2007 22:56

Manchester No2ID will be holding a Fortnightly Flyering event at Manchester's Oxford Road Station on Thursday 29th March at 5:30pm. These events raise awareness of the anti-ID Card cause among the public, as well as generating attention in the press and elsewhere.

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Navigating the web of lies and hoaxes seeded against Venezuela’s Government

24-03-2007 00:49

VHeadline en Español News Editor Jesus Nery Barrios writes: Continuing our cyber crusade, navigating the web of lies and hoaxes seeded against Venezuela’s Bolivarian Government, President Hugo Chavez and its brave people in the mainstream media, and to show readers the other side of the coin, allowing them to achieve some balance in the information they receive and to arrive at their own conclusions, we find yet another oft-reiterated topic concerning the land of Simon Bolivar, Luis Aparicio and Jacinto Convit (the Venezuelan physician who discovered a vaccine for leprosy).

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Belgian MPs Unanimously Confirm Uranium Weapons Ban

23-03-2007 11:02

On Thursday 22th March 117 MPs from across the political spectrum unanimously backed the Chamber Commission on National Defence's March 7th decision to outlaw uranium weapons and armour plate.

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THIS SUNDAY Manchester's "ID Day" Demonstration

23-03-2007 00:36

In January, NO2ID declared 'ID-Day' to mark the predicted opening of the first National ID Register interrogation centres. On Sunday 25th March, Manchester No2ID will be holding an event in Manchester City Centre as part of a nationwide series of events.

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10 ways to get free MP3s

21-03-2007 10:46

10 ways to get free MP3s

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pleasure of the president

20-03-2007 19:19

US Attorneys don't serve "the pleasure of the president", they
serve freedom lovers dedicated to defending America from
willful criminality. But, americans are too stupidly weak to
demand Coast to Coast hosts allow open communications on
America's highest of concerns. Bushite america would rather,
in silence, thieve from God as our Humanity, than serve the
protections of Justice as ourselves.

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Belgium Bans Depleted Uranium Weapons And Armour

13-03-2007 14:23

They were first with land mines, first with cluster bombs - now Belgium has become the first country in the world to ban uranium weapons!

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Build your own wind turbine

03-03-2007 09:24

Wind turbine building course 9th - 11th March

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Invitation to Trans Hack Meeting 2007 in Oslo

01-03-2007 18:41

This meeting won’t be organized by anyone else other than you: bring your workshop, your debate, the things you’ve studied this year, the things you want to talk about, the reasons and projects why you’d like to meet other hackers - and you don’t need to be a geek to be a hacker!

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Violation of Civil Rights by the ATS system

22-02-2007 16:06

Over the past month, there has been public uproar over the American Automated Targeting System (ATS), which has been operating secretly to create 'risk profiles' for all passengers departing or entering the US without their knowledge. The ATS severely violates the civil rights of millions of passengers and is an example of the danger of collecting and transferring personal details in the absence of legislation ensuring that these data banks are properly used.

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iMobile - indymedia on the move

20-02-2007 12:47

This is an invite to anyone who might be interested in helping to shape and develop initiatives to make indymedia more mobile. (see

http://mobile.indymedia.org.uk for a general rant on what this might mean).

MEETING WED 21ST FEB
7PM @ the hacklab - 15-17 rampart street E1 2LA (off commercial road)

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Cryptometrics;New Zealand Passport Office Used By U.S. Penny Stock Criminals ?

20-02-2007 03:47

Valinoti's Jag Notes also successfully touted Charles Schwab at the time of the London bombings,even getting it to rise on high volume on that same day.Reuters even picked up on the false 'rumor' of a buyout without citing their source - jagnotes.com. But why this free Forbes pr and the jagh scamsters use of it bothers me is now they would purport to be in the passport verification business !

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McKiegate - judicial coverup in Scotland

16-02-2007 16:13

Back in 1997, Shirlie McKie, a Scottish cop, was stitched up by fingerprint experts at the Scottish Criminal Records Office. They mistakenly identified her print at a murder scene she hadn't visited. Then they criminally tried to cover up their errors. Eventually unanimous evidence from 171 foreign fingerprint experts cleared her, but many were initially warned off the case by the FBI who feared it would damage their Lockerbie show trial of Libyan agents. Scottish ministers - who have known the facts for 6 years - refused to have a public enquiry. Noone has been charged with the initial murder and none of the fingerprint experts face disciplinary charges let alone criminal charges for their criminal coverup.

Shirlie McKie was able to clear her name partly because she was a cop with an unblemished record, the daughter of a cop with an unblemished record. However, when the SCRO are caught faking evidence and covering it up in one case, it is fair to assume this isn't an isolated case.

The reason for the McKie coverup is stop the Scottish judicial system being discredited - to help keep covering up the Lockerbie bombing.