Collaborate Disseminate
A former high-ranking lawyer at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to jail for four years after stealing the identities of US immigrants. Continue reading Immigrant identity thief and ICE lawyer gets four years
By Waqas
For the last few years, hacking a traffic sign or
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Traffic sign near ICE headquarters hacked with “Abolish ICE” message
Continue reading Traffic sign near ICE headquarters hacked with “Abolish ICE” message
DHS’s Office of the Inspector General says it has ‘limited resources’ to investigate hundreds of civil liberties and detainee abuse complaints, but one expert said the figures “demand a closer look.” Continue reading FOIA: DHS Did Not Investigate Hundreds of Civil Rights Abuse Complaints
After Twitter users pointed out Microsoft’s relationship with ICE, the tech giant is publicly distancing itself from the agency’s parent-child separations. Continue reading Microsoft, an ICE Tech Partner, ‘Dismayed’ by Child Separation Policy
The Stanford prison experiment, which helped us understand the worst atrocities in history for decades, is called out as a ‘sham’ at a moment when America is separating asylum seekers from their children at the border. Continue reading As Sadism Surges on the American Border, Our Collective Understanding of Cruelty Collapses
[Revanth Kailashnath] writes in to tell us about an interesting project he and his team have been working on for their “Real Time Embedded Programming” class at the University of Glasgow. Intended to combat the harsh and dangerous winters in Glasgow, their system uses a Raspberry Pi and a suite of sensors to automatically deploy a brine solution to streets and sidewalks. While the project is still only a proof of concept and hasn’t been deployed, the work the team has done so far runs the gamut from developing their own PCBs to creating a web-based user interface.
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Continue reading Keeping Streets Ice-Free with the Raspberry Pi
The Icoboard is a plug-in for the Raspberry Pi with a Lattice iCE FPGA onboard. Combined with a cheap A/D converter, [OpenTechLab] build a software-defined radio using all open source tools. He found some inexpensive converters that cost about $25 and were fast enough (32 MHz) for the purpose at hand. The boards also had a digital to analog converter and he was able to find the data sheets. You can see a video with the whole project covered, below.
The video, by the way, is pretty extensive (about an hour’s worth) and covers the creation of a PC board …read more
The now-rejected SB-712 bill was meant to protect location data privacy from the spying electronic eyes of automated license plate readers Continue reading California says no, you can’t cover your license plate
Native Spanish speakers in the US face specific threats to their digital security. Continue reading Why We Published the Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked in Spanish
The surface-to-air system is built for cold and can shoot down cruise missiles in the rapidly warming, potentially oil-rich Far North. Continue reading Russia Is Deploying Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Defend Its Arctic Oil Claims