It seems I’m not alone in taking the Air Force to task for their new ad campaign. DANGER ROOM patches together a pretty scathing attack piece calling the ads ‘scare mongering:’
No one expects commercials to be word-for-word accurate — not even ads from the U.S. military. But a new Air Force commercial, about the [...]
Cell phone technology allows carriers to imprecisely triangulate the locations of its users assuming they have their cell phones with them. Police have come to appreciate this new tool in finding missing persons.
While this information certainly helps find missing people, the police do not need a warrant to access it and that’s a little troubling:
In [...]
Washington Post reports today on documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that depict a FBI communications dragnet consisting of open circuits from telecom companies:
The circuits — little-known electronic connections between telecom firms and FBI monitoring personnel around the country — are used to tell the government who is calling whom, along with the time [...]
Joe Giuliano, Deputy Chief of the Border Patrol in Washington State, was sent to San Juan to calm privacy fears of local residents who were concerned with ‘citizenship checks’ on ferries to the island. In an ironic twist, he ended up exacerbating the problem after describing the Border Patrol’s creepy use of radiation detectors:
“Vehicle goes [...]
A cartoon character on the NSA’s web site for kids — Cryptokids — describes his ‘favorite computer project’ as setting up a LAN for his family and then monitoring its use. [Sarcasm] ‘Listen kids, internet spying is fun, but it’s also necessary to win the War on Terror…’ [/Sarcasm].
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The Air Force has a new slogan, “Above All.” Unfortunately, I don’t think they realized it was already taken…by Nazi Germany. That’s right, “Above All” translates into German as “Uber Alles.”
2008 - US Air Force:
1939 - Nazi Germany:
If haven’t been to TSA’s new blog, I suggest you check it out. EVOLUTION OF SECURITY essentially consists of TSA personnel huddling in their Alamo while under siege by a mob of haters. It’s gotten so hostile that TSA now moderates comments, which, of course, has only played into dissenters hands. “Stasi-lite” and “though [...]
From the US Northern Command’s website:
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces [...]
I just passed through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint in Phoenix. The other passengers on my flight can rest easy now that my 3.5 oz. bottle of shaving cream has been confiscated. Interestingly enough, my razor was allowed.
Is anyone even taking these guys seriously anymore?
Here’s why the TSA is bullshit: It can’t possible protect against [...]
The military now says it was mistaken when it said it had no aircraft deployed over Erath County on the date that dozens reported seeing UFOs near Stephenville, about 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Ten F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations between 6 and 8 p.m. on Jan. 8 in the [...]
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is reporting that the previously anonymous Area 51 now has a name and airport identifier. It’s now known as ‘Homey Airport.’
The airport identifier and location of Nevada’s Groom Lake—you know, where they keep the space aliens at Area 51—has been appearing in flight-planning software and on handheld GPS [...]
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