Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
AntiLeaks Group Claim Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attacks
August 11th, 2012Operational Mirror as of 12 August 01:30 NZ time. Via: Register: The WikiLeaks website has been under a major DDoS attack over the last few days and a group calling itself AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility. “We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with […]
Trapwire
August 10th, 2012Via: Privatepaste 1, 2: From: Justin Ferguson Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {6221} Domain Awareness System To: tscm-l2006@googlegroups.com Cc: michael.maness@abraxasapps.com, dan.botsch@abraxasapps.com, jeff.nielsen@abraxasapps.com I’m not entirely sure how this is new so to speak, they’ve had this capability for years from the ‘trapwire’ system (trapwire.com formerly abraxas applications– a subdivision […]
Kremlin Wiretaps Dissident Blogger — Who Tweets the Bug
August 9th, 2012Via: Wired: Alexei Navalny showed up to work in Moscow on Monday to discover he was being bugged. He called the police, like many perhaps would, but not before tweeting photos and video of himself and his colleagues taking the Kremlin’s monitoring devices apart. It’s not hard to figure out why Navalny was bugged. He’s […]
NYPD and Microsoft Team Up to Peddle Retroactive Surveillance System
August 9th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: Microsoft helped the New York Police Department build a surveillance and intelligence sharing network to fight terrorism and help investigators solve crimes. Now the NYPD will get a hefty cut of the revenue as the partners prepare to jointly market the intelligence system to other police departments around the world. Microsoft […]
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
August 8th, 2012Via: Wired: The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program. “This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts […]
France: Hollande Wants 75 Percent Tax on Income Over $1.24 Million Per Year
August 8th, 2012Via: New York Times: The call to Vincent Grandil’s Paris law firm began like many others that have rolled in recently. On the line was the well-paid chief executive of one of France’s most profitable companies, and he was feeling nervous. President François Hollande is vowing to impose a 75 percent tax on the portion […]
Avatar Officer Installed at Arizona-Mexico Border Station
August 7th, 2012Via: Scientific American: People crossing the Mexican border into Nogales, Ariz., this week will have a chance to meet U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s newest officer—a polite yet no-nonsense bilingual gatekeeper with a thick shock of black hair and a striped gray tie. He may not have a name or join his fellow officers for […]
Huawei: The Company that Spooked the World
August 6th, 2012Via: The Economist: BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the “Cyber Security Evaluation Centre” set up there by Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, […]
Bailout Funds Recipient Goldman Sachs Invests in New York City Jails Program
August 5th, 2012Via: Reuters: Goldman Sachs will invest nearly $10 million in a New York City jails program, using an innovative financial instrument in which private investments fund public social services, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday. Goldman will create one of the nation’s first “social service bonds” to help fund a New York City program that […]
And Now… Texas and U.S. Facing Growing Threat of Domestic IEDs; Suspend Posse Comitatus?
August 4th, 2012Via: Houston Chronicle: Improvised explosive devices have claimed the lives and limbs of thousands of American soldiers across Iraq and Afghanistan. And now officials say the devilish devices are posing a growing threat across Texas and the United States. The accused shooter in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater massacre, James Holmes, allegedly deployed IEDs in […]
