Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches
September 4th, 2013“No one updates their routers” ??? I always updated the routers, switches and firewalls that I was responsible for. Ah well, these kids today… Via: Wired: The NSA’s focus on routers highlights an often-overlooked attack vector with huge advantages for the intruder, says Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer at security firm Beyond Trust. Hacking routers […]
Can’t Get Enough of China’s Ghost Cities
September 4th, 2013Macro scale madness. Via: io9: China’s building boom has created a ton of abandoned cities and massive ruins — most of which are brand new, and have never had people living in them. Here are the deserted Chinese cities, mostly built in the last 10 years, which could be sets for your next dystopian movie.
Israel Confirms Missile Test in Mediterranean
September 3rd, 2013Interesting time and place for a “missile test.” So, what was this, really? Via: Al Jazeera: Russia has announced that its missile early warning system detected the launch of two missiles from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired towards the sea’s eastern coastline, and later confirmed in an Israel statement by Reuters news […]
China Wants Operational Control Over Nuclear Power Plants It Finances in Britain
September 2nd, 2013Via: Power Engineering International: China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) is looking for increased influence over EDF nuclear power facilities in the UK in return for investment in the sector. The state-owned group is currently in negotiations with EDF over potential investment in the Hinkley Point project in England. The FT reports that CGN wants […]
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing NSA’s
September 2nd, 2013Via: New York Times: For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection […]
Homeschooling in Germany: Children Seized in Shocking Raid
August 30th, 2013Via: HSLDA: At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a “brutal and vicious act,” a team of 20 social workers, police officers, and special agents stormed a homeschooling family’s residence near Darmstadt, Germany, forcibly removing all four of the family’s children (ages 7-14). The sole grounds for removal were […]
Black Budget: $52.6 Billion
August 30th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how […]
Shocker: Israel One of the Top Spying Threats Facing U.S. Intelligence Services
August 30th, 2013The U.S. will probably punish Israel by giving it another $115 billion. Via: The Hill: The Obama administration views Israel as one of the top spying threats facing its intelligence services, leaked documents reveal. A secret budget request obtained by The Washington Post from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden lumps Israel alongside U.S. foes Iran […]
Russian and Chinese Representatives to the UN Walk Out on Mrs. Cognitive Inflitration
August 29th, 2013Samantha Power is Cass Sunstein’s wife. Via: ITAR-TASS: The Russian and Chinese officials walked out of the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday, August 28, after U.S. Permanent Representative Samantha Power had called for an immediate action in Syria. The permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – Russia, Britain, China, the […]
And Now… ‘Israeli Intelligence Intercepted Syrian Regime Talk About Chemical Attack’
August 28th, 2013Oh sure. Via: Guardian: The bulk of evidence proving the Assad regime’s deployment of chemical weapons – which would provide legal grounds essential to justify any western military action – has been provided by Israeli military intelligence, the German magazine Focus has reported. The 8200 unit of the Israeli Defence Forces, which specialises in electronic […]
