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Watching You

Posted by michael on from the masquerade dept.

BWJones writes "National Geographic is running a story this month on surveillance. I received my copy today and the article is reasonably extensive (for National Geographic) and well written, covering many issues that get attention here on Slashdot both good and bad. There is coverage of what's good with the technologies (a program called Poseidon that helps ensure folks don't drown in swimming pools) and what's bad (death of privacy). In between are some additional details on backscatter X-ray and a taste of some of the security for the 2002 Winter Olympics here in SLC. I got to see a little bit more than the average person of the security during the winter games as our building was the emergency backup headquarters if anything went wrong and was routinely crawling with FBI and other folks including the Secret Service making for some interesting nights at the lab."

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  1. Problems? by anaphora · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Buffer.Overflow();
    Timer1.Interval = 10000;
    Private Sub Timer1_Timer()

    MsgBox "You're eating too much. You're going to get fat."
    End Sub


    Instant annorexia.

  2. A vote for 1984 is a vote for paranoia! by Neophytus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Vote for it in the BBC's Big Read final.

  3. Slashdot popups? by zapp · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Has anyone else noticed lately that slashdot has had some popups? I don't know what they were, but my blocker did notify me that it blocked a efw from slashdot.org.

    --
    no comment
  4. Not OT, Please Mod Parent Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, you aren't the only one. For the past couple of days I've been getting frequent popups when browsing Slashdot, most of them seem to be exit popups which appear when I close a page. These are even worse than normal popups in my opinion.

    They're all coming from an outfit called QuestionMarket. The following entry in your hosts file will get rid of them:

    127.0.0.1 amch.questionmarket.com

    C'mon, Slashdot. As a non-subscriber, I don't mind seeing ads, but popups are over the top. Some of us have to use IE while we're working, and don't have the option of browsers which block popups...

    1. Re:Not OT, Please Mod Parent Up by Remik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I just got one of these, and I was kinda pissed.

      But, then I ran Adaware and found that somehow I'd picked up Gator in the last few days. It's possible that one of the links on the main page resulted in many people getting Gator installed recently, and now they are seeing these.

      Run Adaware, then see if you get any more.

      -R

  5. Re:Uhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Poll: 100% of Palestinians want the land back that Israel has stolen from them via "settlements".

  6. MOD UP PARENT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It appears to be authentic and accurate. Research and observations has led us to the conclusion that michael is actually "a fucking queer who sucks it".

    Bravo!