#spy
U.S. SENT “WEATHER” BALLOONS TO SPY ON CHINA AND THE SOVIET UNION IN THE 1950S
Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/china-balloon-soviet-union/
#china #usa #military #history #spy #surveillance #politics #news
3D models of humans created from your #WiFi router
Source: https://vpnoverview.com/wp-content/uploads/densepose-from-wifi.pdf
What can you use it for? People can be observed and tracked unnoticed through walls.
All the ways #TikTok tracks you and how to stop it
Source: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-data-privacy
#privacy #surveillance #china #bigdata #internet #technology #spy #orwell
#UK #government ban for Chinese Hikvision #CCTV cameras
source: https://techmonitor.ai/government-computing/hikvision-ban-uk-government-oliver-dowden
#Security cameras made by Chinese company #Hikvision can no longer be installed in or on government buildings after cabinet minister Oliver Dowden declared them “current and future possible security risks”.
US bans sale of #Huawei, #ZTE #tech amid #security fears
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63764450
Because the #ban is not retroactive, the firms listed can continue to sell products previously approved for sale in the US.
So it's just a matter of escalating the #trade #war, because if the products were really dangerous, they would have all been banned.
#politics #technology #china #usa #economy #news #problem #spy
#Mexico continues to illegally #spy on activists and journalists with #Pegasus from #NSO Group.
source: https://ejercitoespia.r3d.mx
#software #surveillance #freedom #humanRights #politics #government #fail #crime #cybercrime #news #problem #journalism #press
#Twitter #whistleblower alleges at least one Chinese #spy is at the #company
source: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-whistleblower-says-chinese-spy-at-company-fbi-warning-2022-9
#Zatko's complaint, which was submitted to US authorities in July, indicated that the US government had provided Twitter with specific information that at least one of its #employees, perhaps more, may be working for a foreign #intelligence agency, but it did not specify which countries the agents were allegedly working for.
#china #economy #politics #news #security #job #surveillance
Tech #tool offers #police ‘mass #surveillance on a #budget’
Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million #mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create #location analyses known among law enforcement as “patterns of life,” according to thousands of pages of records about the #company.
#gps #spy #tracking #navigation #app #software #fail #problem #smartphone #news #economy
These three #series show powerfully the problem with the #DeepState ...
1) Slow Horses - https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/95480-slow-horses
2) Condor - https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/71146-condor
3) Homeland - https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407-homeland
How #Twitter employees ratted out user identities to #SaudiArabia
source: https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/how-twitter-employees-ratted-out-users-to-saudi-arabia/
“At around the same time Abouammo was lying to #FBI agents” — under questioning, he claimed that the watch was worth only $500 and that he received no more than $100,000 — “I wrote a story for Vanity Fair about spies from other countries, specifically rogue nations, who were coming to #SiliconValley to try to steal corporate #secrets and spy on foreign nationals,” Bilton told The Post. “I remember sitting in the offices of a major tech #company and an executive said, ‘Absolutely, there are spies working here. Who are they? I have no idea. But they are here.’”
#CosmicStrand #UEFI #malware found in #Gigabyte, #ASUS motherboards
Researchers at #cybersecurity company #Kaspersky called it CosmicStrand but an earlier variant of the threat was discovered by malware analysts at #Qihoo360, who named it #Spy Shadow #Trojan.
Follow the Leader
source: https://magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-leader-nazi-putin-sonntag-cold-war/
In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues #Germany today. He was also a Communist #spy—and worked for Vladimir #Putin.
Some prisoners viewed #Nazism as the purest form of opposition to #communism, the ideology whose agents had put them behind bars. Indeed, embracing far-right beliefs was, ironically, a demonstration of anti-authoritarianism.
#ColdWar #Intelligence #RainerSonntag #noNazis #History #USSR #news #politics #KGB
#Security Breach in #Strava Exercise #App Used to #Spy on Israeli Officials, Reveals #Army Bases
The #exploit in the app Strava, which was revealed by the Israeli open source investigative group FakeReporter, also exposed the locations of a number of highly sensitive sites in #Israel, including the precise location of army and air force bases, #Mossad headquarters and Military #Intelligence bases.
#fail #privacy #gps #sports #tracking #cloud #technology #online #news #surveillance
