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Showing posts with label Technology - Communications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology - Communications. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

iPHONE 7 AIRPODS ARE RADIOACTIVE and could harm your health. - It's like microwaving your brain, warns scientist. - Apple says that the emissions are within FCC guidelines.

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There is an uncontrollable profit-driven race to come up with 'smaller and better' in personal communications technology.  This may result in products that are not always safe.  Case in point lately is the exploding Samsung cell phones.   The following article warns us about another item that should give us concern.  
  • The new iPhone 7 airpods are wireless, Bluetooth, and radioactive.
  • Dr Joel Moskowitz, a professor at the UC Berekely School of Public Health, said people would be ‘putting a microwave-emitting device next to your brain’.
  • Apple’s engineers argue that the frequencies are well within the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) guidelines.  
  • Dr Moskowitz said more than 200 scientists who study electromagnetic radiation safety believe that the FCC guidelines are inadequate to protect human health.
  • Animal studies have found that exposure to very low intensity microwave radiation can open the blood-brain barrier enabling chemical toxins in the circulatory system to penetrate brain tissue.
  • The findings are nothing new, Dr Moskowitz explains. 'This has been observed over several decades.  It's like we keep rediscovering that Bluetooth is harmful and trying to forget it because we don't know how to handle it from a policy standpoint." 
Man with new iPhone 7 headphones

iPhone 7 Wireless and Bluetooth headphones by Apple.
Microwaving your brain.

 
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

FBI botched Clinton investigation: Never disclosed Hillary and aides used covert Google server to hide Benghazi emails

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  • The corruption and incompetence of one individual in power is not as scary as finding evidence that the political system enables such corruption and incompetence to thrive. 
  • Whether Hillary Clinton becomes president or not, the system is the real problem.  As many say with despair, it's rigged.
  • There can be no checks and balances when much of the system is compromised.  
  • The following article by True Pundit reveals more on how government institutions and individuals, along with the media, have allowed the subversion of the American political and justice systems. 
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 FBI Botched Clinton Investigation: Never Disclosed Hillary, Aides Used Covert Google Server to Hide Benghazi Emails
 
By True Pundit
 
It's like a bad spy movie involving a third-world government. Or perhaps a slap stick comedy. The Secretary of State of the United States reading, sending, receiving sensitive emails with national security secrets, threats and classified or top secret intelligence over Google’s public Gmail.   We expect this from chatting soccer moms but not from the top diplomat of the United States and her aides.
 
But it gets even worse. The FBI either never discovered this blatant and clandestine violation of federal laws or did and simply covered it up.  Following the Benghazi consulate attack in 2012, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton secretly worked with Google to reroute email traffic away from her private computer server and use public Google Gmail servers instead.
 
That clandestine move served to cloak her inner circle’s communications from lawmakers, public scrutiny and would-be criminal investigators, according to intelligence sources who provided documents to True Pundit.
 
These bombshell revelations shatter Clinton’s repeated claims and testimony that she solely used her private server in her Chappaqua NY home to conduct government business at State. But it also reveals that previously undisclosed computer servers were employed by Clinton and her aides for conducting official government business.
 
Lawmakers have been on a dogged and often frustrated quest to secure all of Clinton’s emails during her tenure as Secretary of State. She has maintained in interviews and testimony that all emails were warehoused on a single home brew server during her four years in office.
 
Perhaps more alarming, none of these revelations, or the intelligence which follows in this expose were included in the FBI’s recent “comprehensive” report released to the public detailing the bureau’s alleged dogged investigation into Clinton’s emails and home servers.
 
According to its report of the year-long investigation by 30 agents and administrative personnel and a secondary detail of its interrogation of Clinton, the FBI:
  • Failed to report that Clinton along with her top aides routed official State emails through Google’s public Gmail
  • Failed to pinpoint these missing post-Benghazi emails
  • Failed to subpoena Google for such stored or archived messages from its servers
  • Failed to even question Clinton or her aides about use or rerouting of emails through Google
  • Failed to question Google personnel involved with the setting up the server to handle Clinton’s emails
  • Failed to disclose Clinton’s use of Gmail for State business during sworn Congressional testimony
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Monday, August 29, 2016

URGENT: IN ONE MONTH OBAMA SURRENDERS THE INTERNET TO ISLAM VIA THE CORRUPT UN with its powerful 56-member Org.of Islamic Cooperation - This giveaway of something he does NOT own VIOLATES THE US CONSTITUTION - Will the pusillanimous US Congress allow it? Will the American public allow it?

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VIDEO:  BREAKING THE INTERNET By Black Pigeon
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URGENT!!! 
Tell your representatives to stop Obama's unilateral surrender of control of the internet to the UN and 56-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
 
Obama has NO right to do this. Obama does not own the internet even though America invented it.   Unless Congress stops him before October 1st, foreign governments will control the internet and have the ability to censor free speech. This could be regarded as akin to treason.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

GOOGLE EAVESDROPPING TOOL INSTALLED ON COMPUTERS WITHOUT PERMISSION - The feature is part of Google's Chromium - SAMSUNG'S SMART TV can also eavesdrop on your conversations - See list of devices that may be spying on you IN YOUR OWN HOME

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  • Google secret software can listen in to your conversations.
  • The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser.
  • googleIt also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process.
  • The default install will wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, says expert.
  • Samsung Smart TV can also listen to your conversations.
Privacy advocates claim always-listening component was involuntarily activated within Chromium, potentially exposing private conversations

The Guardian - Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.
 
First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.
 
Continue reading about this, about Samsung's Smart TV snooping capabilities, and see article listing the many household devices that may be spying on you, and how they do it.

Sunday, October 12, 2014

GOOGLE AGREES TO DELETE ONLINE INFORMATION ON THOUSANDS OF CRIMINALS IN THE EU - Your new boyfriend, babysitter, or doctor could be one of them, and you'll never know

In total, members of EU countries have sent nearly 500,000 requests for links to be removed from GoogleThe more profound question is whether Google even has the right to censor legitimate information.  
 
Google has been manipulating content for a long time, as you may have noticed during your searches.   But with enough patience, Europeans still had the hope of finding what they were looking for.  Not anymore.
 
Daily Mail - Google deletes 18,000 UK links under 'right to be forgotten' laws in just a month: 60% of Europe-wide requests come from fraudsters, criminals and sex offenders.

  • Law allows EU citizens to ask for links to be removed from Google searches
  • The ruling was widely criticised for allowing murderers, rapists and paedophiles to erase information about their past 
  • UK has third highest number of requests, behind France and Germany 
  • In total, Google has received nearly 500,000 requests to remove links
  • Within a month of the ruling ten per cent of requests came from paedophiles
  • It includes the online removal of newspaper articles.
  • Daily Mail likens it to the burning of library books.

  • Requests from Britain included a former clergyman who wanted to remove links to articles about a sex abuse investigation and a doctor who botched a medical procedure.

    Thursday, September 4, 2014

    FAKE CELL PHONE TOWERS MAY BE SPYING ON AMERICANS

    Fake mobile phone towers could be spying on US citizens

    More than a dozen “fake cell phone towers” could be secretly hijacking Americans’ mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
     
    ESD America, which markets heavily-encrypted cell phones built within the body of a Samsung Galaxy S3, said it was able to locate numerous towers intercepting mobile communications – but does not know who is running them.
     
    Speaking to Popular Science, ESD America CEO Les Goldsmith recently said that the company has used its phone – the CryptoPhone 500 – to map 17 different fake cell phone towers, dubbed “interceptors,” across the United States. Locations include New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, and more.

    Monday, June 9, 2014

    HOW TO PROTECT YOUR POWERED-OFF iPHONE FROM NSA SPYING

    photo Josh Valcarcel - Wired
    Just because you turned off your phone doesn’t mean the NSA isn’t using it to spy on you.
     
    Edward Snowden’s latest revelation about the NSA’s snooping inspired an extra dose of shock and disbelief when he said the agency’s hackers can use a mobile phone as a bug even after it’s been turned off.

    The whistleblower made that eye-opening claim when Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, holding his iPhone aloft during last Wednesday’s interview, asked, “What can the NSA do with this device if they want to get into my life? Can anyone turn it on remotely if it’s off? Can they turn on apps?
     
    “They can absolutely turn them on with the power turned off to the device,” Snowden replied.
    Snowden didn’t offer any details on this seemingly magical feat. But a group of particularly cunning iPhone hackers say it’s possible. They also say you can totally and completely turn off your iPhone so no one—not even the NSA—can use it to spy on you.

    Read more, watch video and learn how to protect your phone from the NSA  -  http://www.wired.com/2014/06/nsa-bug-iphone/

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    Sunday, April 13, 2014

    ARAB HACKERS ATTACK ISRAELI ORGANIZATION FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER

    One of the primary targets of (the cyber) attack was Larger than Life, an NGO for children with cancer.

    "The website of Larger than Life has been under attack from pro-Palestinian hackers for a week," Larger than Life wrote on its Facebook page several days after the attack began, "and every day they take down our site and plant different content – flags, a skull, symbols and all sorts of hate-related things."

    "It is too bad that this is happening, of all places, to a website for an organization whose purpose is one of love, and assistance to every cancer stricken child under treatment in Israel, without differentiating on the basis of religion, race or nationality."

    Read more
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/178596#.U0tPwZuPKM9

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    Tuesday, April 8, 2014

    ISRAELI TECH COMPANY DEVELOPS SYSTEM TO RECHARGE CELLPHONE BATTERIES IN 30 SECONDS - Will be on the market in two years.

    Israeli startup StoreDot said on Tuesday that it was working to develop a bio-organic system that can recharge a smartphone battery in just 30 seconds.
     
    Tel Aviv-based StoreDot's prototype battery and charger is currently being tested with Samsung's Galaxy phones, but the startup's founder and CEO Doron Myersdorf told AFP that a product compatible with all makes of smartphone should be on the market by 2016.  He said that at the core of the new technology was the use of peptides, compounds containing amino acids.
     
    "We are modifying the surface of the electrodes with bio-organic compounds, peptides, to increase the chemical reaction to produce extra energy," he said.  Myersdorf added the breakthrough "allows us to avoid the most annoying aspect of our smartphones, of which we are demanding more and more, and to ensure that we have a charged telephone all day."
     
    StoreDot has not received capital from global smartphone market leaders Apple or Samsung but is getting backing from a Chinese manufacturer, Myersdorf said, without naming the investor.

    Source
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179409#.U0Q2qZuPKM8
     
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    Friday, January 31, 2014

    ANGRY BIRDS WEBSITE HACKED - AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF GATHERING DATA ABOUT USERS


    The web site of Angry Birds app maker Rovio has been hacked two days after reports that the personal data of its customers might have been accessed by U.S. and British spy agencies. 
     
    Rovio spokeswoman says the hacking lasted a few minutes early Wednesday and that end-user data 'was in no risk at any point.'  The hacking came after documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden suggested that the NSA and Britain's GCHQ had been able to extract information through a host of smartphone apps across the globe, including the Angry Birds game franchise.  Rovio has denied the claims, saying it does not "share data, collaborate or collude" with any spy agencies and that it would re-evaluate third-party advertising networks.
     
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    MILLIONS OF YAHOO E-MAIL PASSWORDS HAVE BEEN STOLEN

    How many Yahoo email passwords have REALLY been stolen? Firm admits 'coordinated attack' - but refuses to say how many of its 237 million accounts are affected
    • Usernames and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and used to access accounts in a 'coordinated attack'
    • Users affected have been emailed or sent an SMS
    • Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google's Gmail
    • Company 'working with federal law enforcement' on the issue
    Read more
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2549123/Have-millions-Yahoo-email-account-passwords-stolen-Firm-admits-theft-refuses-say-237-million-accounts-affected.html

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    Tuesday, January 28, 2014

    VIDEO PHONE FOR PETS SO THAT THEY AND THEIR OWNERS CAN STAY IN TOUCH

    US company PetChatz has developed the novel device.  It allows owners to speak to pests through their smartphones.  The makers claim it will help assuage the guilt of leaving pets alone.
     
    The system features a colour camera that allows the owner to check on their pet.  And with animals said to be able to follow images much better on modern screens, it can see their owner’s familiar face once they are taught to respond to a calling tone.  It can also record clips over a wi-fi network.  Both cats and dogs can see in colour, although neither animal’s eyesight is as good as a human’s.  A special tone tells pets their owner is calling so they can be trained to run to the video phone.
     
    Read more and see pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2547788/Even-Fidos-got-dog-bone-Owners-stay-contact-pooch-using-video-phone-pets.html

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    Monday, January 20, 2014

    ELEPHANTS JOIN TWITTER



    Four tagged bull elephants in Laikipia, Central Kenya are now "tweeting" through the fingers of their human supporters using the hashtag #ElephantsLive Pioneered by the charity organization Space for Giants, the initiative is meant to educate people and raise awareness about elephant conservation.  "Our mission [is] to secure a future for the largest mammals on earth forever," reads the organization's website. "To be enjoyed by humanity forever, by ensuring that they have the space and security to live and move freely in the wild forever."

    Friday, January 17, 2014

    BIG CALIFORNIA QUAKE COULD CRIPPLE INTERNET, CELLPHONES


    Twenty years after the Northridge earthquake, experts say a huge temblor across Southern California today could cripple cellphone and Wi-Fi Internet service.  Seismic safety officials increasingly have been studying how telecommunications would be affected after a quake even bigger than Northridge and expressed concerns it would make communications difficult for days or longer.  Like water and gas lines, most Southern California Internet lines run across the San Andreas Fault, and officials fear the Big One could cut off service.