Recent Developments in Paranoia: Stealth Clothing and More
Apr 22,
2013
Anti-surveillance scarves, signal-attenuating fabric, drone-proof architecture — has it really come to this? Apparently. The New-York-based artist Adam Harvey has designed a line of “Stealth Wear” clothing for the fashionably paranoid market. It includes a metalized anti-drone hoodie and scarf to defeat thermal imaging, and a cellphone pouch with radio-frequency shielding to defeat tracking and […]
The Patriot Act and the Cloud
Jul 11,
2012
A year ago, Microsoft’s U.K. managing director surprised many people by publicly admitting that Microsoft will hand over data stored in any of its worldwide facilities when asked to do so by the U.S. government. In fact, the cloud customers and their data subjects would not even be informed if there was a gag order […]