UK Indymedia - UK Technology Newswire Archive

Avoiding automated facial recognition / computer surveillance

05-01-2012 16:18

There is an interesting article here about how to avoid facial recognition from CCTV cameras, etc.

TOR vulnerabilities discovered

24-12-2011 22:36

TOR is a popular technology used to increase the anonymity of web users.

Recently vulnerabilities have been discovered which make this software insecure.

Users are advised to upgrade to the latest (fixed) version

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Three more jailed for Facebook comments on UK summer riots

17-12-2011 21:36

Two teenagers from Dundee, Scotland, and a 22-year-old man from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in England, were imprisoned for years for statements posted on the social media site Facebook at the time of riots in English cities last summer.

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Mil-Tech

17-12-2011 12:28

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Hackers successfully attacked police computer systems during riots

14-12-2011 14:02

Hackers successfully managed to shut-down the website and email system of West Midlands police during the height of riots in August.

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The US Air Force’s New Mind Control Wing

10-12-2011 23:47

The use of RF Directed Energy Weapons is roughly similar to other ‘electroshock’ weapons. Just as the cattle prod-like ‘taser’ has been widely adopted in American law enforcement to temporarily disable (or permanently kill) those targeted, pulsed microwave directed energy weapons have been covertly adopted by the US military for remote incapacitation of human targets, such as political dissidents. More properly classified as weapons of electronic warfare--a type of information war--RFDEW are used for the “jamming” of “enemy information systems,” which also happen to be human brains.

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The Orwellian 'Non-Lethal' War Waged Against Peaceful Citizens

06-12-2011 13:02

Non-lethal weapons are being distributed by the West into protest zones throughout the world, as well as being utilized in crowd suppression within the borders of the Land of the Free.

The producers of weapons such as rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray are quick to point out that it is not the weapons themselves that are the cause of fatalities, but rather it is their misuse through faulty training. The Orwellian nature of such a statement is staggering, as the admission of lethality is actually buried in the justification. In fact, one of the main manufacturers, NonLethal Technologies Inc., states in their own search description that they are a "Manufacturer of Less-Lethal riot and crowd control products." Less-lethal is not non-lethal. Moreover, it seems disingenuous that major players in the military-industrial complex, which has been quite lethal to a large number of nations and peoples, should themselves be developers of supposedly non-lethal technology.

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You Can Shove Your Rubber Bullets...

28-11-2011 23:57

Take cameras to EVERY protest. Photograph the cops. Video the cops. Focus on their faces and ID numbers. Close up.

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Ground the Drones: Protest the Drones Industry - Wed 16 Nov, London

09-11-2011 08:54

As unmanned drones become the latest 'must have' weapon, and drone strikes become an almost daily occurrence, the drone industry will be gathering together in central London.

Protest: Wednesday, 16th November, 12noon-2pm, Copthorne Tara Hotel, Scarsdale Place, Kensington, London, W8 5SR
(nearest tube High Street Kensington)

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Occupy history: Luddite uprising began in Nottingham 200 years ago last night

05-11-2011 13:00

BCfm’s weekly politics show
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

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What lies beneath the Ark Academy in Brent?

30-10-2011 17:21

Email correspondence with Brent Council Planning Department, December 2008.
Although the links to the Brent Council website have long broken, links to these images is at the bottom of this document, so can still be accessed.

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Daily Mail dirty tricks continue at OLSX

29-10-2011 21:44

The latest Daily Mail bullshit about Occupy London Stock Exchange alleges that, as temperatures plummet to near zero at the occupation in New York's Zuccotti Park, thermal imaging cameras can show when tents are full after all. This might, in context of New York only, be true, but it is not true in what even The Daily Mail admits is "a much warmer London" - where, in contrast to New York, temperatures remain around 17 degrees... contrast settings on the FLIR thermal cameras are adjustable! ...

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Video proves Daily Telegraph + Mail lied about OLSX

28-10-2011 15:33

New video evidence proves the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail lied in their dirty tricks campaign against OLSX

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Weekly blog roundup

15-10-2011 10:28

The following is drawn from a variety of local activist blogs

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UG#569 - The Light Within (Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole?)

15-10-2011 09:32

This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of "Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places", on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

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MI5 recruiting telephone spies in West Midlands

11-10-2011 11:20

MI5 will be eavesdropping on the telephone conversations of Arabic speaking people in the West Midlands during the Olympics

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#rebelliousMC book a space for a meeting

07-10-2011 10:46

The interactive section of the Rebellious Media Conference website is for anyone who is passionate about radical media.

http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org

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Online booking of event spaces at Rebellious Media Conference

02-10-2011 15:36

If you are coming 2 the #rebelliousMC you can book a meeting space DIY style online, limited number available so get in quick

http://bit.ly/o3j68Q

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The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian: A Thought Police for the Internet Age

28-09-2011 17:58

There could be no better proof of the revolution – care of the internet – occurring in the accessibility of information and informed commentary than the reaction of our mainstream, corporate media.

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Wikileaks latest

10-09-2011 18:25

heres lots of stuff-

wikileaks.org may not work, try wikileaks.nl