Thursday technology link round-up

  • The intelligence community's research arm, Iarpa, wants to predict the future of, well, everything. Check out details on the far-out "Open Source Indicator Program." Darpa is currently running a similar program in Afghanistan.
  • Amidst the Lulzec and Anonymous hacking episodes, the Office of the Inspector General has found some pretty gaping holes in the cyber security at DHS.
  • The Technology Liberation Front wrote a good breakdown of Ed Markey and Joe Barton's "Do Not Track" bill.
  • The Indian government has asked Skype and Google to cooperate with its surveillance plans. No word yet from the companies. 
  • Apple releases its new Safari version, chock full of privacy enhancements.
  • Texas will get another drone to police the US-Mexico border. This drone, the Predator, is weaponized.
  • The Northern Ohio Fusion Center has set up a hotline for people to call in with tips about...teenagers planning flash mobs. Not joking.
  • Telecommunications and surveillance giant Verint is acquiring a data-analytics firm called Vovici.
  • A judge has decided that it's not such a big deal if a company renting out laptops secretly spies on users who rented the machines.
  • Uh-oh, is Google spying on you?
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