Author Archives: Cloak Meister

Feb 25
2017

Ping GPS Tracker

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Cloak Meister

Ping Cut No Sound v2 from Joshua Lippiner on Vimeo. Inside Ping is a GPS module, Bluetooth, and 3G cellular module. Bluetooth is used for short distance, while the 3G cellular lets owners find things that are miles away. Users … Continue reading →

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Feb 19
2017

Office Monitoring Has Begun

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Cloak Meister

Because legally an employer can track anything you do at work (except for bathroom breaks), it is clear what the end result will be – total tracking. The only question is how long it will take to become commonplace. The … Continue reading →

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Dec 03
2016

Is Big Brother Coming to China?

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Cloak Meister

As with just about everything else reported on here, it will likely come to be because, good honest people have nothing to fear. It would be far nicer if the focus was only the positive, getting plus points for community … Continue reading →

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May 18
2016

Passport Acquires Verizon

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Cloak Meister

Company from the future Passport has announced that they will be buying Verizon in a cash and stock deal. This means that a company that has made its name monitoring and tracking drones and other vehicles, will now be in control of a … Continue reading →

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May 11
2016

Sweden: First Cashless Society?

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Cloak Meister

When a former member of ABBA says a cashless society will have less crime, people listen. Already Sweden has laws restricting cash deposits in banks, as well as 80% of transactions being non-cash (USA is 50%). Read the full story at Wired. Yes, … Continue reading →

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Dec 07
2015

DarkMarket / OpenBazaar

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Cloak Meister

Open Bazaar (previously known as DarkMarket) has a major advantage over the now closed Silk Road – it is peer to peer. That means no central website that the authorities can take down. DarkMarket works in a fundamentally different way … Continue reading →

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Sep 06
2015

How Legal is Stingray?

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Cloak Meister

Judge Kendra Ausby ruled last week that the police should not have used a stingray to track Andrews without a search warrant, and she said prosecutors could not use any of the evidence found at the time of his arrest. … Continue reading →

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Sep 02
2015

Laser Drone Destroyer

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Cloak Meister

Given the potential for unaccountable, untraceable attacks with drones, it isn’t surprising that science is developing ways of blowing them out of the sky. The HEL MD’s laser weapon is accurate enough to target specific sections of an unmanned aerial … Continue reading →

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Aug 29
2015

Legal in the USA: Drones That Can Attack You

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Cloak Meister

Either this will get reversed in due course, or it is a sign of a future we need to get used to. In North Dakota it is now legal for the authorities to fly unmanned vehicles that can use non-lethal … Continue reading →

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Jun 24
2015

Google Listening – Without Permission

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Cloak Meister

Google’s Chronium is supposedly open source and open to scrutiny. However Google added some code without telling anybody: Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone … Continue reading →

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