In a classic piece of knee jerk legislation, the UK government has announced that it will make a polygraph test part of the pre-release consideration process for terrorist prisoners. This website has repeatedly stressed what all spies know: polygraphs do not work. Their results are no better than chance. The …
In the UK, the BBC is carrying a report that eleven Chinese fishermen have received cash awards for capturing seven foreign underwater drones also known as Unmanned Underwater Vehicles or UUVs. In 2018, eighteen fishermen were awarded cash at a special ceremony for the capture of nine UUVs. The rewards …
As an aside from the Norwegian Intelligence Service’s “Focus 19” (see below), the document contains an analysis of Chinese cyber control policy. It includes (at page 77) a photograph of a Chinese police officer at a train station in Zengzhou. She is wearing a pair of smart sunglasses that, says …
The news that there has been a serious breach of What’s App will come as no surprise to intelligence professionals. No matter what the system, if you allow internet connected technology into your life then you are creating a security risk – whether it is a mobile phone, a computer …
One of the issues that we have reported on several times is the increasing use of facial recognition technology. At first it was just used at border crossing points such as airports, but increasingly it is being used in-country by other authorities such as police, private companies and local government …