#56: Surveillance and PSYOPs

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