Category: Technology
NSA’s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need
The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. Here are some excerpts from...
Google buys military robot-maker Boston Dynamics
Google buys military robot-maker Boston Dynamics Google has acquired the engineering company that developed Cheetah, the world’s fastest-running robot and other animalistic mobile research machines. Boston Dynamics, which contracts for the US military, is...
Kerry to urge Congress to halt sanctions bill, as Iran threatens ‘dead’ deal
Secretary of State John Kerry is under pressure to convince Congress to hold off on new sanctions legislation against Iran, as he prepares to testify Tuesday amid a renewed effort in the Senate to...
State surveillance of personal data: what is the society we wish to protect?
What in principle would justify the scope of the surveillance revealed by the Snowden leak? Would it be enough, for example, if it could be shown that a specific potential act of terrorism had been prevented...
Iran says it produced laser guided ballistic missiles with increased range
Iran has made a laser-guided ballistic missile with increased range, according to its defense minister. “The fixed precision of our long-range missiles has increased to the extent that we can hit every point we...
‘Great Satan’ meets ‘Axis of Evil’ and strikes a deal that Israel has called a “historic mistake”
(Reuters) – Saturday night had turned into Sunday morning and four days of talks over Iran’s nuclear program had already gone so far over schedule that the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel had been given over...
Iran unveils “Fotros” drone, says it’s their biggest yet
Iran unveils “Fotros” drone, says it’s their biggest yet TEHRAN, IRANIran unveiled a new aircraft Monday that it says is the biggest drone yet to be developed in the Islamic Republic, capable of staying...
Bad Deal With Iran Could Lead to War: Israel’s Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that war could result from a bad deal between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program. Netanyahu has been lobbying against any...
US-Israeli computer super-worm hit Russian nuclear plant
The CEO of one of the world’s foremost computer security firms says the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities may have also infiltrated similar critical systems in Russia. If accurate, allegations that Stuxnet...