Feds and Local Cops Team Up To Surveil EVERYONE
My favorite YouTube attorney covered this story, and there are some interesting extra details given.
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Border Patrol Expands Surveillance Network: Secretive Program Monitors Millions of U.S. Drivers
This gives more details on a previous post where a driver was flagged and pulled over for a suspicious driving pattern, with his constitutional rights violated, now suing the sheriff department. Given the bodycam video I saw, I think he’ll…
Why Chevy Switched To A Flat Plane Crank In The Corvette
Personally, I thought the whole move to a hypercar was a bad move, as what made the Corvette an interesting sports car was it’s comparable affordability. Though when pickups and Jeeps can be over $100,000, I suppose the Stingray at…
Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento
Though currently ended, it’s a wonderful example of how this data tracking gets abused, and for financial gain. Asset forfeiture is the driving force that seems to corrupt government and law enforcement officials to take shortcuts, violating people’s privacy and…
Secretive Border Patrol Program Is Detaining US Citizens for ‘Suspicious’ Travel
This is an indication of how the Flock ALPR cameras and other tracking can be abused for police fishing expeditions. And for some police or sheriff departments, asset forfeiture is the reason to abuse the civil rights of Americans in…
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety’s ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
These Flock ALPR cameras are trouble, and for them to remain there needs to be clear regulations on needing warrants with data being protected and deleted within a short time to preserve privacy, and not gobbled up by third parties.…
Dell and HP Disable Hardware H.265 Decoding on Select PCs Due to Rising Royalty Costs — Companies Could Save Big on HEVC Royalties, but at the Expense of Users
This is just ridiculous. By Anton Shilov No money, no hardware decoding. Dell and HP have begun to ship some of their PCs with disabled HEVC hardware decoding, potentially in a bid to avoid paying royalties to patent holders,…
Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down
This rush to Rust isn’t going so well. And as I’m one to point out, memory safe Rust is primarily for corporations that want to hire coders right out of school, as the other languages are safe when you properly…
XLibre on Arch
I was previously using the repository for XLibre that was setup for Arch on my laptop, but it’s not keeping up with the new versions. I found the AUR package from XLibre at bottom, and did the three step process…
DEF CON 33 – Unmasking the Snitch Puck: IoT Surveillance Tech in the School Bathroom, Section 8 Housing, Senior Homes… Coming to Your Living Room One Day?
Warning for a little bad language, but this is an extremely important presentation on a device that can significantly undo your privacy. And along with the post on the Flock ALPR cameras, they’re not engineered very well. And pay close…
Mempool Queen Weighs In On Spam
The SPAM is a direct attack on Bitcoin node runners, as it’s going to blow up the UTXO database further and fill up your drive, requiring you to need much larger drives and computers with more memory if you need…
Google Sued for Allegedly Using Gemini AI Tool to Track Users’ Private Communications
I want to know how Gemini had access to 16 years of emails. You can go into your Google account page and configure all of your privacy settings, and even set it up to delete data after 90 days. Also…