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Portfolio.com has published a lengthy and interesting article on the world of ex CIA agents who are using their “Company” skills to do private-sector spy work for corporations and businesses.
The article discusses numerous current hot topics like pretexting and privacy issues.
From the article –
They’re leaving “the Company” to snoop on your company. How C.I.A. agents are pushing corporate espionage to ominous new extremes.
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The best estimate is that several hundred former intelligence agents now work in corporate espionage, including some who left the C.I.A. during the agency turmoil that followed 9/11. They quickly joined private-investigation firms whose U.S. corporate clients were planning to expand into Russia, China, and other countries with opaque business practices and few public records, and who needed the skinny on international partners or rivals.
These ex-spies apply a higher level of expertise, honed by government service, to the cruder tactics already practiced by private investigators. One such ploy is pretexting—obtaining information by pretending to be somebody else. While private detectives have long posed as freelance reporters or job recruiters to get people to talk, former agents have elevated pretexting to an art.
You can read the Portfolio.com article @ Spy vs. Spy
TheStreet.com is reporting that bad credit could end up costing you around $1 million during your lifetime. For people with poor credit scores, the added cost of borrowing could exceed $1 million USD over a 30 year period.
Here is a bit of unusual law enforcement news. The Associated Press is reporting that hot pink Hello Kitty armbands will be used in Bangkok Thailand to punish police officers who break the law. The offending police officers will be required to wear Hello Kitty armbands around the office as a mark of shame and embarrassment.
From the article –
Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring “Hello Kitty,” the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.
Police officers caught littering, parking in a prohibited area, or arriving late — among other misdemeanors — will be forced to stay in the division office and wear the armband all day, said Police Col. Pongpat Chayaphan. The officers won’t wear the armband in public.
The striking armband features Hello Kitty sitting atop two hearts.
“Simple warnings no longer work. This new twist is expected to make them feel guilt and shame and prevent them from repeating the offense, no matter how minor,” said Pongpat, acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok.
“(Hello) Kitty is a cute icon for young girls. It’s not something macho police officers want covering their biceps,” Pongpat said.
He said police caught breaking the law will be subject the same fines and penalties as any other members of the public.
Breitbart.com is reporting that the free people search engine Spock.com has already indexed 100 million people and is adding new names to its search engine at the rate of a million a day. Spock.com is scheduled to open for public use in mid August. Spock.com is an ambitious people search effort that plans to eventually index billions of names worldwide.
From the article –
“We are a search engine organizing information about people,” Spock.com co-founder Jay Bhatti told AFP.
“How Google allows you to type anything and gives you a web document result, we give you results around people,” he said. “That’s how we differentiate ourselves from other search applications, because we are solely focused on people.”
The founders of Spock.com, which has been under development since 2006 in Redwood City, California, hope the website will eventually provide a search result for everyone in the world.
To index individuals, Spock.com scours through social networking websites such as MySpace, Friendster and Bebo.
But it also allows web surfers to add information about individuals to help Spock.com compile full profiles.
“We try to index people, but the machine is not enough to understand all the data,” Bhatti said. “That’s where the community comes in. As an user of Spock, you will be able to add keywords, pictures, and to upload pages about people.”
Google is out to capture photo and video recordings of major US cities and their roaming Chevy Cobalt camera cars, equipped with Ladybug2 Sperical Cameras, are being spotted all over the United States.
Here are some interesting blog posts from gizmodo.com that discuss the Google Streetview project:
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