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Leaked Zerofox documents outline Baltimore network infrastructure vulnerabilities

Several days ago a document from the corporation Zerofox was leaked on the internet. Zerofox is a domestic spying organization there is no other word for them. They are paid obscene amounts of money to monitor people's Twitter and Facebook accounts, and provide the results of their stalking to police departments and other people who are in theory bound to respect the autonomy of free political speech. In the document that was leaked, Zerofox claimed to have "mitigated" 19 "threats" and "monitored" hundreds of others. The document is available here . What constitutes a threat? Political speech that is critical of the police. At the top of the list of "physical threats" are #blacklivesmatter activists Deeray McKesson and Johnetta Elzie , neither of whom have ever been convicted of a violent crime AFAICT. The report recommends that police engage in "continuous monitoring" of the pair and justify this absurd response because they ha...

Best to Hush on the Bus - Cities Across the US Install Surveillance Equipment on Public Transit

This IP camera with microphone , the Safety Vision SVC2200, is being installed on buses in San Francisco, California; Eugene, Oregon; Traverse City, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio; Baltimore Maryland; Hartford, Connecticut; and Athens, Georgia. The microphones are sensitive enough to record conversations audibly. This leads one to wonder what such technology could possibly be used for. Cameras can be used for evidence in cases of violent crime. Recordings are not nearly as important in establishing proof of violence as they are in assisting with more subversive forms of surveillance. No doubt this information is headed in a roundabout way to your local DHS "Fusion Center", where it will be shuffled, cataloged and shuffled again. The IP cameras are listed as supporting the following protocols: IPv4/v6, TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, FTP, SMTP, DHCP, PPPoE, UPnP, IGMP, SNMP, QoS & ONVIF, although one wonders in what capacity they 'support' QoS ... a few of t...