Technological Revolution

Tap-to-pay terminals can charge you for things you have not even purchased

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 12:36

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - December 31, 2023 - Have you noticed a charge on one of your cards that you can’t explain? If so, you may be a victim of one of the “tap-to-pay” terminals that are being installed all over the nation.

The television commercials that promote RFID technology that allows us to pay just by tapping a card are designed to make us feel warm and fuzzy about this new method of conducting transactions, but it turns out that this technology is not nearly as secure as most of us thought.

Mass surveillance methods: cybersecurity primer

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 15:21

We examine typical approaches to mass surveillance as I imagine they would be implemented by any country. This is broken out in 3 separate areas of surveillance: Web traffic, Email, and Notifications. Rob Braxman reports.

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Tesla robot attacks engineer at factory!

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 15:08

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - December 26, 2023 - A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company’s Giga Texas factory near Austin.

Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminum car parts.

Scientists claim they have had a 20-minute conversation with a whale

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 14:59

Say it could pave the way for conversations with aliens.

JUNEAU, Alaska (PNN) - December 18, 2023 - It might sound like a scene out of Avatar: The Way of Water.

But scientists claim it's now possible to have a conversation with a whale, following a 20-minute chat with a humpback whale in Southeast Alaska.

Solution to fix screwed-up Internet encryption

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 15:23

Web Encryption (HTTPS/TLS) no longer guarantees us any security or privacy because of the abuse by various stakeholders of the Public Key Infrastructure. Anyone currently can call himself or herself a Root Certificate Authority and intercept Internet traffic and strip away the encryption. In this video, I make a proposal that if implemented would eliminate the risk of a Man-In-The-Middle and "Make the Internet Great Again" (reducing mass surveillance). Rob Braxman reports.

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New jetpack that can fly at the speed of a car goes on sale next year

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 11:57

PALO ALTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - December 13, 2023 - A new jetpack product called Jetson ONE made
its inaugural flight in the Fascist Police States of Amerika this week, and the company behind it says that it expects to begin deliveries to customers in 2024.

Incredible dangers to privacy in browsers

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 12/07/2023 - 11:13

Most people do not realize the privacy risks in browsers and spend their time thinking about which browser is better. It's time for you to understand the flaws in every single browser and this has a significant effect on your privacy and security. Rob Braxman reports.

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Programming failure in voting machines leads to election chaos

Submitted by Freedomman on Thu, 11/09/2023 - 12:14

What you read and what the computer reads are two different things.

EASTON, Pennsylvania (PNN) - November 8, 2023 - A human programming error in a series of voting machines used this week in a Pennsylvania county has left chaos behind - and confirmed what many who have watched suspicious results trotted out in recent elections as absolute truth feared: electronic voting machines are susceptible to major errors.

Privacy attacks may be defeated by moving to Linux

Submitted by Freedomman on Sat, 10/07/2023 - 18:22

Our basic expectation of private conversations using End-to-End Encryption is under attack. The Fascist United Kingdom just passed the Online Safety Bill and its intent is to bypass encryption via client side scanning. But we can fight back with Linux. Let me explain how. Rob Braxman reports.

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Commentary: Reality is escaping out the back door

Submitted by Freedomman on Sat, 10/07/2023 - 18:03

by Patrick Wood

September 27, 2023 - There’s a big word that you can add to your vocabulary: Simulacrum. It is a hard word around which to wrap your head, but one you are not too likely to forget. Indeed, you should not forget it!

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