Topic: Phone - on December 17, 2011 at 2:46:00 PM CET
How to Stop Your Smartphone from Constantly Tracking Your Location
Your smartphone tracks your location for all sorts of useful things—driving navigation, updating the weather forecast, and even live traffic updates. However, if you'd rather not have Google and Apple tracking that information—not to mention having it available on your phone for thieves to find—here's how you can turn off location tracking.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 17, 2011 at 2:32:00 PM CET
Iran Arrests Another CIA Spy
Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday that it has arrested an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Iran immediately after he started his spying activities inside the country.
The Ministry's public relations office said in a statement that the US administration had designed a very complicated and massive plot to pave the way for infiltrating the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Republic; in the same line, the CIA tasked one of its intelligence analysts with putting this complicated intelligence-operational plan into action.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 17, 2011 at 12:01:00 PM CET
US spy drone hijacked with GPS spoof hack, report says
The US stealth drone broadcast last week on Iranian state television was captured by spoofing its GPS coordinates, a hack that tricked the bird into landing in Iranian territory instead of where it was programmed to touch down, The Christian Science Monitor reported.
The 1700-word article cited an unnamed Iranian engineer who said he's studying the inner workings of the American bat-wing RQ-170 Sentinel that recently went missing over Iranian airspace. He said the spoofing technique made the craft “land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the remote-control signals and communications” from the US control center.
theregister.co.uk techspot.com Debka: Whoever hacked the drone, hacked the CIA Lost U.S. Drone Was Monitoring Iranian Nuclear Facilities, Sources Say dailytech.com Did Iran hijack the 'beast'? Iran Shows Off Downed US RQ-170 Sentinel Spy Drone [youtube] IN-DEPTH PHOTO ANALYSIS OF THE SUPPOSED RQ-170 SENTINEL DRONE IN IRANIAN HANDSComputer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet [October 8, 2011] April, 2011 report identifying problems with drone communications including the risk of jamming and "lost link" events CIA Drone Run On Warez [Oct 14, 2010] Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones [December 18, 2009] Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students [July 4, 2009]
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 17, 2011 at 9:51:00 AM CET
Police Brutality Coloring Book Begs Question, ‘What Color Is Pepper Spray?’
Don’t let the cops see your kid coloring in this book — they might confiscate that box of Crayolas, or worse.
Forty-six artists, including Shepard Fairey, have contributed black-and-white artwork to the Police Brutality Coloring Book, a 48-page DIY publication inspired by incidents of violent police action against Occupy Wall Street activists.
“I wasn’t directly involved with the movement, but I had been down there a few times and was sympathetic to the cause,” said Police Brutality Coloring Book creator Joe “Heaps” Nelson in an interview with Wired.com. Then it turned out that Chelsea Elliott, one of four women pepper-sprayed during a Sep. 24 protest march in Manhattan, was a friend of a friend of the New York artist.
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Topic: Space - on December 17, 2011 at 9:44:00 AM CET
Awesome ISS Space-Timelapse in HD
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them.
HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible, avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original footage itself already has an almost surreal and aestethical visual nature.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
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