This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Government Surveillance, Corporate Surveillance over land, sea and air, Personal Surveillance, and a vague but pervasive sense that you’re being monitored at this very moment.
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Matthew Burton has a podcast: “Let’s Talk Calmly About Security and Privacy”
Don’t call me Shirley: Sherlybox is a private Dropbox based upon Raspberry Pi

See also the ‘NSA-proof’ Protonet


Economics of Bulk Surveillance
This week in irony: Tech leaders unite on government data collection reform
Do as I say, not as I do: Google Edition

Google Fit to curate steps, calories, heart rate, other biometric data


Control Google Glass w/telekinesis using MindRDR
Google launches SkyNet
Google to offer low-cost Wifi hardware to businesses, free access to customers
Do as I say, not as I do: Facebook Edition

Tyranny of the default: Facebook to show ads based on your browsing history, but let you change them
Why online tracking is getting creepier
The (PSYOP) product is you: Facebook tries to explain motives for secret user experiments
Facebook and Newspeak


Speaking of altruism, end-to-end encryption in Gmail
Almost related: More Corporations Using Tag And Release Programs To Study American Consumers
Defense in Depth 2014 on July 30
Lowering Cost of Government IT on August 21
Lauren’s new Raspberry Pi project’s maiden voyage: Impossible Deceptions, Charles Peachock & Jason Alan Magic on August 23
Do as we do: Red Hat doesn’t want your data

HT Jamie Duncan: soscleaner!



Cutting Room Floor

HT Matt Micene: Fake followers can improve your prevalence Bing search results
Animal Farm: Watch the Animated Adaptation of Orwell’s Novel Funded by the CIA (1954)
How the CIA secretly published Dr Zhivago
Ayn Rand’s Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Collectivism
Totally incognito: Designers create a Faraday-cage cloak to foil NSA, other spies
Know Your Double: A doppelgänger field guide
Free Internet, free nightmares: The Clown Motel
LettuceBot is an open source killer robot for lettuce
“The machine worked fast. Very fast. I’ve never seen anything work so fast.“

We Give Thanks

Jamie Duncan for soscleaner!
Matt Micene for the Gunnarbait

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