Are Botnets Run by Spy Agencies? In other words is Big Brother indeed watching? But consider this - having remote control of millions of PCs, and a large percentage of the world's PCs seems like a very tempting target for the world's various intelligence agencies. Most zombies are used for external purposes, but it would be easy to have them searching their own disk drives for interesting documents, and sniffing their ... Read full entry

NSW Police ask public to be cameraphone cops Never mind Big Brother watching you, now everyone will be watching you. NSW Police Minister, David Campbell, has revealed details of a new project encouraging citizens to capture video and photographic evidence of crimes on their phones and upload it securely over the Web to law enforcement agencies.

Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software. Microsoft is apparently seeking to patent new software that sounds a lot like something out of a science fiction story... The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's assessment of their physiological state. It sounds like ... Read full entry