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Commercial face recognition software claims 90% accuracy

Source: Daily Mail/Vigilant

A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet.

Face.com has produced technology that can identify individuals on social networking sites and online galleries by comparing their image against a known picture of them.

It means detailed profiles of individuals can be built up purely from online photographs and critics have said it could lead to exploitation…

Feds found Pfizer too big to nail, so they looked the other way on massive fraud

(NaturalNews) When the world’s largest pharmaceutical company was found to have engaged in a massive illegal marketing campaign, federal prosecutors decided the company was too big to punish — so they let it set up a shell corporation to take the blame.

In 2001, the FDA approved Bextra for the relief of arthritis and menstrual cramps, but did not approve it for more severe surgical pain. Yet Pfizer aggressively promoted the drug to anesthesiologists and surgeons — “anyone that use[d] a scalpel for a living,” in the words of one internal company document. Company employees also told doctors that the FDA had approved Bextra as safe in doses as high as 40 milligrams, whereas the agency had actually only approved doses up to 20 milligrams.

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Iris scanners to create the LEAST secure city in the world.

NO.

Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls “the most secure city in the world.” In a partnership with Leon — one of the largest cities in Mexico, with a population of more than a million — GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. That will help law enforcement revolutionize the way we live — not to mention marketers.

Just hold it right there.

As I’ve written about previously, biometric authentication is inherently insecure.  I guarantee you in 15 years this article in “Fast Company” magazine is going to sound sophomoric.  I had boss at an e-commerce job once who read Fast Company.  Biggest ^$$-hole you’d ever want to meet.

If they weren’t trying to sell us on the benefits of a biometric city-wide slave-tracking grid, this would be comical.  It’s all for the human cattle and NOT for the criminals. Criminals will have little difficulty spoofing biometrics (see my previous post, and below). It’s a rather trivial task, when considering the reward to hackers if they can steal your identity (permanently) in a system that relies on biometric authentication.

Mark my words, if they do implement this it will be a disaster.  I have a feeling that many Mexican people are not going to submit to being tracked like farm animals though.

If they tried to implement this in the US, we’d probably have more people here voluntarily participating than in Mexico, since this country full of drugged morons who subject themselves to endless hours of brainwashing every day in front of the TV.

Eventually, they’ll try to force everyone onto it.   It will be nearly impossible to “opt out.”  Even if you wear sunglasses all the time, between the gait (walk) analysis, voice recognition, finding your address, place of business, etc, they’ll be able to piece together who you are.   Automated systems could easily do this by tracking you in public with high-res cameras (constantly scanning your irises) and correlating this with publicly available data.

Just because a biometric system doesn’t know your name currently, doesn’t mean it can’t identify and track you until it does figure out your name later.

More about biometric spoofing: FIDIS. (click thru for pics, emphasis mine)

Experiments with spoofing

The Dutch Forensic Institute has done extensive tests with the various biometric systems. Several fingerprint systems and an iris system have been tested for possibilities of tampering. In most case it appeared to be easy if a person allowed to enrol into the system is cooperating. Some biometric features can also be copied without this person’s awareness and consent (for example fingerprints taken from a glass).

A low cost (Panasonic) iris scanner in our laboratory could easily be faked with a photograph of a person revealing the iris (). Punching a hole in the place of the iris turned out to be sufficient to mimic the light absorption exhibited by a real iris and fool the system into falsely accepting the photo as a real iris. It is claimed that high end scanners do not have this disadvantage: [which is where the contact lens comes in]

Northrop Grumman awarded $44M contract for illegal immigrant detention

Qbit.cc has learned that in 2008 ICE and Homeland Security awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to provide “Bed Space, Transportation and Detainee Location Tracking” of illegal immigrants, from 2009-2013.  Northrop Grumman is one of the suppliers of weapons to the US Military.

You can download the contract PDF here. Itemized dollar amounts have been redacted but it does indicate the total amount of the award: $44,348,547.00

Also attached:

US Dept of Homeland Security
Office of Detention and Removal Operations DRO
Briefing Book

Feel Better™

There’s a new University of Michigan web site, purportedly to help students get help with mental health issues, called “Campus Mind Works.”

It contains a lot of info about therapy and seems rather benign and even potentially helpful, at first glance. But once you know who’s running the site- U-M Psychiatry, this deceptive little piece of marketing makes a lot more sense.

First Check out the scrolling slideshow

Frame 2 caption:

“The sooner you seek help, the sooner you will feel better.”
- Jenna, U-M student

Frame 6 caption:

“The sooner you seek help, the sooner you will feel better. Why wait?”
- Leena, U-M student

Oh well then, since both Leena and Jenna think I need some pills, let me just march right on over there ask my doctor.  I mean, I do want to Feel Better™, right?

Ladies- the fact that there are 13 women and 4 men in this thinly-veiled commercial should give you a clue that you are being targeted by the drug industry disproportionately.

Is it because you’re more trusting of authority than men?  Are you just more likely to use drugs because you’re more emotional?  Or are they targeting you as part of a larger agenda that is not purely market driven?

I don’t know the answers to these “why” questions, but one thing I do know is there are a lot of women out there hooked on antidepressants and anxiety drugs.  Based on some studies, women are about twice as likely to take antidepressants as men.

You probably won’t realize that the main purpose of this site is slinging happy drugs to students until you actually follow thru and speak with a doctor.  Thats when they sell you hard on the drugs.

There’s no free lunch.  Good luck with the brain zaps.

Many truckloads of explosives “go missing” over several months in India

I’m sure we’ll be hearing about these explosives again soon.

Bot-like scanning/indexing from Lockheed Martin

whois 192.31.106.34?

[Querying whois.arin.net]

NetRange:       192.31.106.0 – 192.31.106.255
CIDR:           192.31.106.0/24
OriginAS:
NetName:        LM-192-31-106
NetHandle:      NET-192-31-106-0-1
Parent:         NET-192-0-0-0-0
NetType:        Direct Allocation
NameServer:     NS2.LMCO.COM
NameServer:     NS3.LMCO.COM
NameServer:     NS1.LMCO.COM
RegDate:        1997-06-17
Updated:        2001-09-26
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-192-31-106-0-1

OrgName:        Lockheed Martin Corporation
OrgId:          LHMC
Address:        1401 Del Norte
City:           Denver
StateProv:      CO
PostalCode:     80221
Country:        US
RegDate:
Updated:        2010-01-21
Comment:        Unauthorized use of this system may be subject to disciplinary action, and
Comment:        if such use is violative of state and federal laws it may be subject to
Comment:        legal action as well. Reminder: Information transmitted to a foreign person
Comment:        on this network may be subject to US Export Control laws. Contact your
Comment:        Export Coordinator for assistance.
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/LHMC

OrgTechHandle: LMN-ORG-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Lockheed Martin Corporation
OrgTechPhone:  +1-303-430-2064
OrgTechEmail:  lm-nic@lmco.com
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/LMN-ORG-ARIN

Related: Federal Bureau of Investigation Awards Lockheed Martin Biometric Card Scanning Service Contract

“We’re proud to continue our decade-long partnership with the FBI on the Card Scanning Service program,” Read more …

Nuke that thing now, part 4

Holy sh*t.  This may be the biggest BP media deception yet. The gist of it is that the main well is still leaking and the “capped well” we’re looking at video of a 2nd nearby well from this drilling operation.

“Use skimmers to siphon off the oil” …. “Send a bomb down there”

And suddenly Matt Simmonds is dead.

See also:

Nuke that thing now
Nuke that thing now, Part 2
Nuke that thing now, Part 3