IntelFilter World News ? May 13, 2011

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Energy

(The story above screams PEAK OIL.)

The IPCC says that ?close to 80 per cent of the world?s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century?. However this is derived from the most optimistic possible scenario for renewables, and even then it requires most of the human race to remain in miserable poverty. (That?s why economic collapse is happening?the blind will be the first ones to go.)

A United Nations report has found that the world is set to treble its consumption of natural resources by the middle of this century, unless countries are able to de-couple resource extraction from economic growth.

Intelligence

Bad news for your inbox and antivirus software: the Internet now has free access to the ZeuS trojan source code (aka Wsnpoem/Zbot). This means anyone can alter the files, compile them together and launch their own tailor-made malware attack without shelling out a single dime

The GeoTime software collects and cross-references data from sat-navs, mobile devices, social-networking sites, financial transactions and IP network logs to create a 3D visualisation of?correlations between actions, people and places. The system is partly intended for military use, and privacy campaigners say this makes GeoTime inappropriate for tracking civilians.

To be in public is to be on camera, but most video footage is discarded, as only so much can be sorted and analyzed ? until now. DARPA has created a technology that can index and analyze video in real-time, marking the end of anonymity in public places.

The FBI has finally come clean on the real reason it doesn?t want to name phone and internet service providers that participate in a sweeping surveillance program that taps international communications without a warrant: Customers would get mad and dump or sue the providers.

Defense

The Pentagon would be required to publish four times a year the names of the retired officers it hires as ?senior mentors,? under an amendment passed by a House panel earlier this week.

Source: http://inteldaily.com/2011/05/intelfilter-world-news-may-13-2011/

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