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Faraday Cages In Your Kitchen

By on July 2, 2013 in Culture, Hardware, Odds And Ends, Politics, Science, Smartphones
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Paranoiacs rejoice! Last week, Heather Murphy of the New York Times explained that Edward Snowden had lawyers place their cell phones in a refrigerator to block the signals, using the fridge as a makeshift Faraday cage. Murphy quoted Adam Harvey, a countersurveillance products designer, who said that a martini shaker is a foolproof Faraday cage that can […]

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Big Brother On Speed — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By on March 23, 2012 in Culture, Future Tech, Software
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It’s an advancement in surveillance technology that most of us knew was coming eventually, and it comes from the video monitoring division of Hitachi Kokusai Electric. This surveillance camera system can search through data on 36 million faces in one second. Developed by Hitachi Kokusai Electric, the system can automatically detect a face from either […]

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