February 20, 2005

Newsweek reports at some length on the operations of the so-called “torture flights”, the two no-titles jets allegedly used by certain parts of the US government to transfer suspected terrorists to countries where they may face a worse fate. The Ranter of the 15th of November 2004 covered a previous version of the story, however…

The outstanding Gene Expression has a brief post with links to a variety of guides on how to spoof automated fingerprint readers. It’s clear that, using fairly simple and widely available technology, spoofing is feasible. It’s also clear that, whatever the ID-control technology, criminal creativity will catch up with it – after all, the same…

Phil Carter’s Intel Dump reports on a Wall Street Journal story on a rash of apparently unauthorised irregular forces appearing in Iraq. (Note: original story is locked in a subscription ghetto) It is reported that “The unplanned units — commanded by friends and relatives of cabinet officers and tribal sheiks — go by names like…