pure powder

consumer electronics giant Hitachi has created a RFID "powder" that is 0.05 x 0.05 mm. you can see in the picture how they compare to a strand of hair. these little chips have a 128-bit ROM, which can store a 38-digit number. and, most likely, this number can be read with some sort of RFID scanner. probably not from too far away, who knows... the original source is in Japanese anyway.

a tag of this size could be used to track anything basically. they made a version of this before which was 9times larger (0.4 x 0.4 mm) called Mu-chips. probably good for paper, printer ink, currency, or even a food-additive. LOL

anyways, it seems that the government of Malaysia has bought the rights to it. i'm sure they'll find some fun use for it.

oh yea, the Mu-chips work @ 2.5GHz if you want to go hunting. dunno what the new ones work @.

sources:
http://www.spychips.com/blog/2007/02/hitachis_weaponized_rfid_powde.html
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/02/hitachi-develops-rfid-powder/
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/mu-chip/

how the FBI is watching the net

some details of the FBI's net surveilance technique have been made public last Friday at the Search & Seizure in the Digital Age symposium held at Stanford University's law school.
basically, this is what they are doing:

- if there is a badguy they want to watch, they get a court order and if the Internet Service Provider can tell which IP address the badguy is on, they watch a whole block of IP's.

every time you sign on the internet, you get an IP address. this comes from your ISP, and with always-on connections, rarely changes. but if someone with the same ISP is being bad, the FBI will watch a whole set of IP's to make sure they get 'em. and by watch, i mean record all net activity. email, web requests, etc.

source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6154457.html

the NSA in your ASS

this is fairly old news (1999), but new to me and most likely you.
however:

The National Security Agency (NSA), the official codebreakers / digital information gatherers / cryptography department of the United States, might have had access to any Microsoft Windows computer since Windows95.

yea, that's right:
see, there are high-encryption keys in your computer. i would think of these as wicked-good passwords, big-ass passwords that you unlock data with. these basically allow Windows to encrypt information, to an extent. in reality, there is a federal limit on encryption that can be used in or exported by the United States. what that means is that if you encrypt some information, a file, a message, whatever, you can only make it as unbreakable as the NSA said you can.

anywayz...

what i didn't know is that in Microsoft Windows, there is a key that microsoft put in, as well as one that is for use by the NSA. supposedly, these keys could allow the NSA, or maybe even microsoft, to gain full control of your computer.

not that it matters, and as if you care.

source: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

What's in your wallet?

Reports are just coming in about canadian coins that were embedded with tracking devices. These coins were found on high-security US contractors working in canada. The canadian government is denying any knowledge of them.

Such small transmitters should only be detectable from a few feet away. Who knows tho.

So that's cool.

Source: http://wap.usatoday.com/news.jsp?key=533869

now THIS is fucked up. what fun!

apparently, cell phone companies can place software on your phone, without you knowing, that will activate and transmit your microphone! 'they' can listen in whenever the fuck they want.

this is done by using the auto-update feature of some newer phones (nextel, razr). when it updates, they flash the bug onto your phone and make you a walking microphone for The Man.

this was recently done, with reasonable evidence, to convict some criminal.

but now we know that it does and can happen.
privacy and unlawful search are the issues here. i just realized the other day of the widespread proliferation of video cameras and microphones in today's toys. maybe all the talk of implants and RFID and other tracking methods of the sort are a sort of distraction to the real threat:

cellular phones.

They can already record all communications and pinpoint your location with your phone.
now They show us that They can possibly stream & record audio/video from your phone at anytime without your knowledge.
all that seems to be missing is using your phone as money. i'm sure this goes on somewhere in the world, but i'm too lazy to search for it.

have a nice night!

link: news.com.com article

Yahoo Gave Search Data To Bush Administration Lawyers

in other news, Yahoo! bent right over and gave up their info to the government. it is concerning child porn, which i don't think is legal anywhere on this planet, but there is still a slight sting from a broad sweep like this. it's not exactly a warrant.

"Yahoo Inc. on Thursday acknowledged handing over search data requested in a subpoena from the Bush administration, which is hoping to use the information to revive an anti-porn law"

read more | digg story

Feds want Google search records

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases...Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.''

google almost suprises me with this. on one hand, they know everything that is on the internet, and who else would love that besides a government agency. on the other hand, the constitutional right to search.

read more | digg story

"i can see my house from here!"

not google this time, but microsoft.
they just released their version of Google Earth on live.com: Windows Live Local.

what's Great about this product is that it is pictures of land taken by planes. you can zoom in on "your house" and also rotate 45degrees. from the north, the south, the east, and the west.

nice little angled shots.

related posts: THC_HELL:look-earth-for-free

another gruesome display

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/06/scoop_stick_you.php
the pig-bastards over @ google want to start driving around major cities photographing and measuring buildings. this data will be used for their Google Local and Google Earth projects most likely.

i don't really like the idea of google blanketing neighborhoods with surveillance equipment.

but whatever.

look @ Earth... for FREE!!!

Google Earth is now FREE. travel most of the world w/ pretty good resolution! turn on 3D buildings, and see what some buildings would look like if they were all grey! high rez textures for these can't be too far away.

if your too scared to use Google's, then you could always use NASA's WorldWind.

as if i was completely wrong.

i just found keyhole.com, recently acquired by google. it was initially funded by Sony Broadband and also invested into by the CIA's non-profit investment fund, In-Q-Tel. satellite imagery of the entire Earth and Mars, on your screen and updated every 2 months to 3 years, with resolution down to about a foot. all for $29 a year.

sources:

• http://www.keyhole.com/body.php?h=about
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/28/google_buys_keyhole/

images:

"don't be evil"

well that was quick.
someone from a forum i haunt hooked me up. all my usual aliases were already taken tho, so that's a bit annoying. not that i give a fuck of course.

who's to say that Yahoo or Hotmail or AOL or your own ISP doesn't have a searchable database of your emails?

it's the fucking internet.

just so i remember tho:
my IP address, everything in this blog, the Gmail account, what i search for at google.com, could, technically, all be in the same searchable database.