Archive for December, 2014

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NSA Reports It May Have Broken Laws With Decade of Spying on U.S. Citizens

December 25th, 2014

Oh sure, it’s just a few bad apples, combined with people making mistakes plus some coincidences. Nothing to see here. Maintain Christmas stupor. Situation normal. Via: Bloomberg: The National Security Agency today released reports on intelligence collection that may have violated the law or U.S. policy over more than a decade, including unauthorized surveillance of […]

Helicopter Drone Makes First Flight from Navy Destroyer

December 25th, 2014

Via: Defensetech: A helicopter drone developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. has made its first flight from a U.S. Navy destroyer, the company announced. The MQ-8C Fire Scout on Dec. 16 completed 22 autonomous takeoffs and landings aboard the guided-missile destroyer, USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, according to a Dec. […]

CDC Reports Potential Ebola Exposure in Atlanta Lab

December 25th, 2014

Via: Washington Post: Researchers studying Ebola in a highly secure laboratory mistakenly allowed potentially lethal samples of the virus to be handled in a much less secure laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday. One technician in the second laboratory may have been exposed to the virus […]

Urban Farming Guys MakerSpace

December 24th, 2014

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U.S. Military Shot Down MH370, Claims Former Airline Boss

December 23rd, 2014

Via: Daily Mail: A former airline boss and writer claims the U.S. downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 because the military feared it had been taken over by hackers and was about to be used in a 9/11-style attack. Marc Dugain, the former chief executive of now-defunct Proteus Airlines, said the jumbo jet was shot down […]

Russia: Ex-Minister Kudrin Warns of ‘Full-Fledged Crisis’

December 22nd, 2014

Via: Reuters: Russia’s government has pushed the country into an economic crisis by not tackling its financial problems fast enough, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday, as evidence mounted of trouble spreading through the economy. The central bank bailed out its first victim of the collapsing currency, authorities announced a tax on grain […]

Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables

December 21st, 2014

This Los Angeles Times series looks and reads like distopian sci-fi. High tech green houses stretch across the land to the horizon. Workers exist in abject squalor. Or are they slaves? It depends on the the facility and the arbitrary whims of the crooks in charge. (View the image galleries, if you dare.) And when […]

CIA Travel Advice to Operatives

December 21st, 2014

Via: Wikileaks: The highlighted box titled “The Importance of Maintaining Cover––No Matter What” at the end of the document provides an example of an occasion when a CIA officer was selected for secondary screening at an EU airport. During the screening his baggage was swiped and traces of explosives found. The officer “gave the cover […]

Tech Investors Plowing Money Into Future Farms

December 19th, 2014

Via: The Seattle Times: Investors and entrepreneurs behind some of the world’s newest industries have started to put their money and tech talents into farming — the world’s oldest industry — with an audacious agenda: to make sure there is enough food for the 10 billion people expected to inhabit the planet by 2100, do […]

Major Flaws in Mobile Communications Routing System

December 19th, 2014

Bugs or features? Via: Washington Post: German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers, spies and criminals listen to private phone calls and intercept text messages on a potentially massive scale – even when cellular networks are using the most advanced encryption now available. The flaws, to be reported at a hacker conference […]

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