Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Connectivity Problem Temporarily Halts Trading on About 240 NYSE Companies
June 12th, 2009Multiple redundant data links and servers… Nothing to see here. Via: Reuters: A loss in server connectivity that caused the New York Stock Exchange to halt trades in about 240 companies has been restored, Ray Pellecchia, spokesman for NYSE Euronext, said on Friday. Pellecchia said the exchange was not planning on canceling trades in the […]
The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
May 31st, 2009Via: Wired: Between stabs at his salad, Tobias hands me his latest idea of fun: nearly 300 pages of self-published hacker-porn detailing his attack on the allegedly uncrackable Medeco high-security lock. “Trust me, this will cause a goddamned riot!” he says, dabbing at tears of joy with a paper napkin. “Oh yeah, this is way, […]
The Black World Has Black Fiber; Cut It and Black SUVs Show Up Within Minutes
May 31st, 2009You have to read to the end of the article to find out that the incident happened in 2000. Via: Washington Post: This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic cable no one knew was […]
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
May 5th, 2009I’ve listened to a few of Lierre Keith’s radio appearances and talks. This information will be nothing new to those of you who are involved with producing your own food in ways that build top soil. To the rest of you, this will be deep, chilling doom… for your belly. Lierre Keith is absolutely NOT […]
Brazilians, Including Organized Crime Groups, Using Improvised Radio Gear to Communicate Over Old U.S. Navy Satellites
April 23rd, 2009Via: Wired: The problem goes back more than a decade, to the mid-1990s, when Brazilian radio technicians discovered they could jump on the UHF frequencies dedicated to satellites in the Navy’s Fleet Satellite Communication system, or FLTSATCOM. They’ve been at it ever since. Truck drivers love the birds because they provide better range and sound […]
Navies to Guard Undersea Cable from Somali Pirates
April 16th, 2009HAHA. Maybe they can fit an aircraft carrier down the manholes around the Bay Area to protect that fiber. Via: Reuters: Foreign navies have agreed to protect a vessel installing an undersea high-speed Internet cable from pirates off the coast of Somalia, a Kenyan minister said on Thursday. Sea gangs from lawless Somalia have been […]
Fiber Optic Cables Cut in California
April 10th, 2009There is a concerted effort to call this vandalism. That’s hilarious. Here’s my distinction between false flag operations and war: How will you know the difference between false flag operations and war? False flag operations are symbolic. The main goal is to create fear and obedience to state authorities through the use of propaganda in […]
Should Obama Control the Internet?
April 4th, 2009Via: Mother Jones: Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency? Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast […]
Aircraft Could be Brought Down by DIY ‘E-Bombs’
April 2nd, 2009What they could do to airplanes is child’s play compared to what they could do to a datacenter. Via: New Scientist: ELECTROMAGNETIC pulse weapons capable of frying the electronics in civil airliners can be built using information and components available on the net, warn counterterrorism analysts. All it would take to bring a plane down […]
Sydney: Massive Blackout
March 30th, 2009Via: Reuters: A severe power blackout brought chaos to downtown Sydney on Monday afternoon, causing peak-hour traffic jams as street signals failed and leaving workers stranded in lifts as they tried to make their way home. Failures at four high-voltage power cables virtually paralyzed Australia’s biggest city, with the Sydney Harbor tunnel partially closed to […]
