Pros: They’re cheap They’re maneuverable They’re hard to detect by radar They can loiter over a surveillance target They don’t have predictable flight paths like satellites It can intercept short-range radio transmissions and cellphones Cons: They’re more obtrusive (and[...]
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Pros and cons of spy balloons
BREAKING NEWS: Defectors May Blow the Whistle on Putin-Trump Intrigues
Russian Spy Whistleblowers Turn on Putin A husband and wife who were members of the Russian parliament have defected to Ukraine. The Kremlin calls them ‘enemies of the people.’ Enemies of Putin is more like it. They may be the west’s verson of Snowden! For the moment, at least, they say [...]
ACLU, Wikipedia, et al., sue NSA to limit spying on internet users
Wikipedia and other organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and The Nation magazine, sued the U.S. National Security Agency today in an effort to halt the NSA’s pervasive eavesdropping on internet users. They’re represented by the ACLU. The Constitution is not[...]
Bloggers Should Not Have Freee Speech!
Feinstein: You’re Not a Real Journalist Unless You Draw a Salary Senator Dianne Feinstein. Photo: Bay Area Rapid Transit California Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed an amendment to the Media Shield Law – an irrelevant law ignoring protection already afforded by the First Amendment – that [...]