Military personnel and contractors stationed in Iraq risk not only enemy gunfire, suicide bombers, and roadside bombs, but the very air they breathe often is polluted with dust and other particles of a size and composition that could pose immediate and long-term health threats–the same type of threat that civilians face who live too near pollution spewing highways and power stations.read more

This very odd thread on one of the Apple support boards suggests that there may be some sort of hidden capability built into iPhones. If they are mysteriously taking pictures when turned off, can that be activated by some sort of a signal from the outside? Cellphones transmit detailed data about peoples’ whereabouts to their providers. Could it be that the iPhone, at least, can be ordered to take pictures via a backdoor process? Creepy. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2792410&tstart=0
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