Kibey at instructables has posted a simple how-to video on detecting pinhole spy cameras using a flashlight. Just another way to fight back against Big Brother’s surveillance tactics. Watch the video below.
A while back we posted an article titled “Fight Big Brother with an Invisible Mask” which involved embedding some IR LEDs into a baseball cap to conceal your face to digital and video cameras. Well here is then next step in countering big brother’s tactics. Infrared Sun Glasses. This makes use of the very same concept as the cap but instead, this time it is with a pair of sunglasses. Check out the “Lunettes anti paparazzi” how-to video on making a pair of these bad boys. Link to video…
[via techdigest and WIRED]
If you are traveling internationally, you may want to leave your digital anythings home on your next trip. The ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was proposed some time ago and recently leaked to WikiLeaks. From what I understand, if passed, the act will give border patrol agents the right to search your digital apparatuses for pirated or illegal copies of digital products such as songs or movies. You can view a PDF of the proposed agreement here and it is also mirrored here. Link…
Those who control the past control the future.
Those who control the present control the past.
-George Orwell - 1984
There is talk in the UK government to implement a database that will store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page visited by British citizens in an act of anti-terrorism. Another perfect example of how global terrorism is forcing George Orwell’s prediction of the future to a frightening reality. All the while a 15-year-old in the UK is facing prosecution for using the word ‘cult’ to describe the Church of Scientology at an anti-Scientology demonstration in London earlier this month which “violates” the Public Order Act, which ‘prohibits signs which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or insulting. I think ol’ George about hit it right on the money. Perhaps he was off by about 30 years or so however, say he was dead on, you probably wouldn’t even know anyway. Watch out for those “tele-screens”!
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