Residents in California are trying to fight attempts by military contractor Blackwater USA to build an 842-acre military training facility. …
Continue reading Blackwater seeks to build 800+ Acre Military Training Site in California
“A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and …
New York Magazine has a spectacular spread on one man’s vision: a cluster of 30-story towers on Governors Island or in …
60 Minutes tells the story of how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists literally wrote the historic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and twisted …
Continue reading Under the Influence: How Lobbyists Wrote and Bought the Rx Drug Bill
One of Vista’s coolest features is (ironically) one nobody talks about. Speech recognition is built into every copy of Vista, …
The office involved in this breach has a special responsibility: tracking and countering efforts to steal information on nuclear weapons. …
Continue reading Twenty computers missing from US counter-nuke intelligence office
A scholarly essay in 1947, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper, had an awful lot to say about how we live …
Continue reading The most important computer theorist you’ve never heard about
Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell’s fictional world of ‘1984’. On …
Continue reading George Orwell’s Home Surrounded By Surveillance Cameras
In an era defined by free information exchange via the wide open, largely unregulated internet, the concept of federal bodies …
Continue reading Net neutrality and the FCC: what’s being done to preserve it
See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap …
I wonder how many times mistakes like this happen these days, when PR disaster is often just a click or …
Continue reading Microsoft Sends Secret Dossier on Reporter, to Reporter
The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay …
Continue reading Defense Contractor fined $100M for sharing classified secrets
