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[EFF] EFF Sues for Information on Electronic Surveillance Systems
FBI refusing to disclose how they use new technologies for surveillance (or how they spy on people who are communicating through new technologies). interesting that the obviously malicious Carnivore was renamed something a little more abstract (and maybe cute, like a robot) DCS-3000. -sd
FBI Withholds Records on Tools to Intercept Personal Communications
Washington, D.C. - The FLAG Project at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed its first lawsuit against the Department of Justice Tuesday after the FBI failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records concerning DCS-3000 and Red Hook -- tools the FBI has spent millions of dollars developing for electronic surveillance.
Submitted by seandockray on 3 October 2006 - 1:02pm.
[BLDBLG] Radio Astronomy
This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've read in months: in order to combat light pollution, city officials in Reykjavik, Iceland, "will turn off street lights on Thursday evening and people are also being encouraged to sit in their houses in the dark." The clincher: "While the lights are out, an astronomer will describe the night sky over national radio."
(Via WorldChanging and Categories: astronomy | lights | news | radio | radio
Submitted by seandockray on 6 October 2006 - 7:11pm.
(Via WorldChanging and Categories: astronomy | lights | news | radio | radio
Submitted by seandockray on 6 October 2006 - 7:11pm.