One thing that has been on my mind lately is some crazy ideas for finding information and the lengths that people go to. Even in the movies, these ideas are never really that far fetched as they could be. For example, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) I’ve never seen in the movies, yet there is the technology in the public that make these things real. Imagine having a UAV flying a 5 mile radius over the place you’re infiltrating, giving you a heads up on any problems that you may encounter? For more information on amateur UAVs, one great site to look at is http://diydrones.com Anyway, what are some ideas you’ve seen or have had?
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Ever wonder how to gain ownership of a building with least amount of work regardless of legality? The New York Daily News “acquired” the Empire State building in about 90 minutes of work. Here is their story: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/12/02/2008-12-02_it_took_90_minutes_for_daily_news_to_ste.html Seems like there is a lot of money in these mortgage fraud cases, not that I’m encouraging anything.
Last week a 22 year-old was sentenced to 6 months jail for running a file-sharing site carrying links to copyright works. On the surface it appeared that court ruled that due to placing advertising on the site, the admin had profited from infringement and therefore committed a crime, but all is not as it seems. A week ago we reported that a Spanish Court made its decision in the case of file-sharing site Infopsp.com. According to the complainants – Spanish Association of Publishers and Distributors Entertainment Software (ADESE) and the Spanish Videographic Union (UVE) – the site, which had around 17,300 members, operated illegally. InfoPSP didn’t host any illicit content itself but instead offered...
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss bank Credit Suisse has started closing down the offshore accounts of U.S. clients who have not declared the money to the U.S. authorities, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Sonntagszeitung newspaper said the bank had about 2,500-5,000 U.S. clients with undeclared offshore accounts worth about 3 billion francs, without citing its sources. The paper said Credit Suisse had started parting company with its U.S. offshore clients, giving them the option of moving their accounts to its CS Private Advisors subsidiary, which would report the accounts to the U.S. tax authorities, or writing them a check. It quoted an unnamed Credit Suisse manager as saying the bank was only applying the new “zero...
Dave has announced the next Identity conference, now with added Privacy: [Dave Birch] Here’s another date for your calendars: London, 14th and 15th May 2009. The Digital Identity Forum and the Enterprise Privacy Group will be hosting the first Identity & Privacy Forum, sponsored by Consult Hyperion with support from HP, Microsoft, Symantec, Verisign and VoicePay. The Forum will be held at the Guoman Charing Cross Hotel, London, and I’m looking forward to seeing you there. Toby Stevens and I will be sending out a detailed agenda in a couple of weeks, but just as a heads-up there are going to be four sessions: “a snapshot of electronic identity”, “co-evolving privacy and consent”,...
We don’t have any Canadian’s on the staff here at PlanAHeist, but I hear that not only is Quebec going to issuing RFID enabled driver’s licenses, but that they will be required for entrance into the USA starting June 1, 2009. These enhanced driver’s licenses cost $40CAD, if you wait for your current one to expire, otherwise it costs $51.97CAD. Quite spendy considering I only paid $20USA for mine (albeit non-RFID). Putting aside the security issues of RFID in general, they claim they are going to only include a code that a US Border agent can read. This code is then required for a lookup of your file in a database that is managed by the Canada Border Services Agency. One concern, if that the...
It seems like the gas stations are prime targets for scams because people really want free fuel. In the past there have been a few exploits. One I distinctively remember about 5-10 years years back was when people started using other cards instead of credit cards at the pumps. Namely drivers licenses. People would run their licenses through and it would let them pump gas, of course you wouldn’t get charged for it since they didn’t have your CC info. I don’t remember what happened to all the people that did this, I don’t know if it recorded their names and other info. This post over at Philosecurity sheds some light on the workings of the pumps. Gasoline Glitch worth a read.
