Missouri University of Science and Technology attempts to paint file-sharers as mentally ill, recommends snooping software be deployed

Dr. Sriram Chellappan of Missouri University of Science and Technology recommends monitoring students’ file sharing behavior with spyware to identify signs of “mental disorders.”

http://www.scribd.com/doc/93950152/12-Tech-soc-Kcmwl-1

Proactively discovering depressive symptoms from passive and unobtrusive Internet usage monitoring:

Using the correlating Internet usage features derived in our study, we are currently attempting to build a classifier to proactively discover depressive symptoms among students by passive, unobtrusive and run-time monitoring of their Internet usage. The classifier can be readily deployed at campus settings to discover depressive symptoms among students. If privacy is a concern, it is straightforward to deploy the classifier into students’ personal computers also. Privacy is implicit,and the student can voluntarily seek support services. We believe that such an approach will significantly improve both the quality and timeliness of detection and treatment of mental disorders today.

According to the paper, if use p2p file sharing networks you may be mentally ill and need treatment.  Let me guess what this treatment would involve: Anti-depressants, amphetamines, and therapy by one of the school’s commie social worker therapists? After all, they wouldn’t want any brainwashed slaves-in-training to have access to unapproved information from the underground p2p networks that might interfere with their “education.”

The Internet usage monitoring spyware they have developed represents a fusion of medical nanny state surveillance with copyright enforcement.  I’d bet money that government, copyright lobby, elite foundations, or some combination thereof funded this abomination.

Remember, every time you download a copyrighted file, God kills a kitten, because file sharing is terrorism.

Machine vision software tags and tracks humans across camera networks

For your own safety, of course.

Facebook saves everything forever, has ‘shadow profiles’ for non-users

From http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201

Message from Anonymous: Operation Facebook, Nov 5 2011

This ought to be interesting. I’ll get the marshmallows.

NY Cop makes self famous

If he hadn’t gotten all enraged, this video wouldn’t have drawn attention to him doing whatever it is he didn’t want us to know about, probably just standing there to look tough or terrorize citizens in the form of random searches, here in police state America.

They have to fund their parasitic bureaucracy somehow, and the prison system needs fresh meat, so don’t be shocked when we see a lot more jackboots storming around and hauling people off under National Security, Patriot Act, Military Commissions, etc.  Federalized police officers will get away wtih even more violence and criminal activity in the name of fighting terror, and  maintaining “order” – their kind of order, a New World Order governing over the human cattle.

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authorityshould take a stand for liberty and the Constitution, and fire this officer for breaking the law while on duty.   He threatened this citizen for doing something perfectly legal under the First Amendment- filming in public. Freedom of the press. We have the right to collect information in a public space and disseminate that information.

An officer is a public servant, and being in a public space has no expectation of privacy, and has no right to threaten this person.  Police and government, Google, and many other private businesses have cameras all over the place, and don’t get anyone’s permission first.  The officer is clearly breaking the law by threatening bodily harm and prosecutors should file charges against him.

Feds to Mandate Black Box on all New Cars

Kurt Nimmo

Prison Planet
May 24, 2011

The feds will mandate next month that all new cars be fitted with a black box, according to news reports. So-called black boxes record information about speed, seat belt use and brake application.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been involved in the use of black boxes since their introduction. In 2006, the safety administration encouraged but did not require automobile manufacturers to install the systems and also did not set a single standard for the way data would be recorded, according to the New York Times.

In February, NHTSA administrator David Strickland said the government was considering making the technology mandatory in the wake of recalls of millions of Toyota vehicles. Strickland made the disclosure to a subcommittee hearing by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Now they will make the installation of these device mandatory under federal law. If we are to gauge the reaction of the corporate media, this story is not very important. Outside of industry and technology publications, the story was not reported.

Computer chip manufacturer Intel showed off its event recorder last year following the Toyota recall. “With new vehicles, there will very likely be video cameras inside and outside,” said Intel’s chief technology office, Justin Rattner, in a July, 2010, interview. “It’s not particularly new or stunning, but when you combine the cameras with GPS, you’re geo-tagging the video.”

In other words, your car – like your smart phone – may soon become a surveillance device and high-tech snooping will be mandated by the federal government.

Tweeting again

I was using a service to tweet my posts to twitter but that stopped working so I installed a plugin for the blog which will auto-tweet posts.   Additionally I’m running a local url shortner, so there won’t be any 3rd party tracking of your clicks (excluding the NSA vacuuming up most if not all internet traffic).

But anyhow, this blog doesn’t use Google Ananlytics or URL forwarding services like bit.ly (sorry, working on that), facebook iframes with “Like Buttons” (and javascripts), or other shady code, so just be aware I’m trying to prevent any 3rd party tracking and protecting your privacy as much as possible.  If you browse this site thru a proxy, you can rest assured I’m not going to have your browser pinging the mothership and wasting your efforts, but hopefully you’re blocking cross site JS anyway.  It’s not just the government that wants to sniff our data, it’s private corporations like credit reporting agencies, and marketers who want to buy and sell your infos and annoy the living crap out of you.

I don’t have a privacy policy posted, but I do log IP addresses for my own protection in case someone hacks the blog.

Thanks for reading and here’s the Twitter feed

By the way, I can send tweets from my phone in case TSHTF and I can’t post directly to the blog.

Snuggly the Security Bear