Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
BitTorrent Based DNS to Counter U.S. Domain Seizures
December 1st, 2010I like it. I’m not yet able to believe the hype about how it supposedly, “Can’t be touched by any governmental institution,” but I’ll definitely be following developments. Something like this needs to happen. Via: TorrentFreak: The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers […]
Airport Style Security Screenings… To Ride the Bus
November 30th, 2010COMCAST DEMANDS PAYMENTS FROM LEVEL 3 TO DELIVER CONTENT TO ENDUSERS
November 30th, 2010Grim. Via: Level 3 Communications: Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) today issued the following statement, which can be attributed to Thomas Stortz, Chief Legal Officer of Level 3: “On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online […]
And Now… “Broad Sacrifice”
November 29th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: President Barack Obama proposed freezing the pay of federal civilian employees this year and next as part of an effort to bring the budget deficit under control. The freeze would hit all civilian workers in the government, including those at the Department of Defense. Military personnel wouldn’t be affected. The move would save […]
WikiLeaks Diplomatic Documents Release
November 29th, 2010For whatever it’s worth: cablegate.wikileaks.org Via: Guardian: Among scores of disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail: * Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, with officials warning that as the country faces economic collapse, government employees could smuggle out enough nuclear material for terrorists […]
Review of the TSA X-Ray Backscatter Body Scanner Safety Report: Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife
November 29th, 2010Via: My Helical Tryst: I am a biochemist working in the field of biophysics. … According to the TSA safety documents, AIT uses an 50 keV source that emits a broad spectra (see adjacent graph from here). Essentially, this means that the X-ray source used in the Rapiscan system is the same as those used […]
U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown
November 27th, 2010They’re just arbitrarily hijacking sites via DNS now. They could redirect any .com, .net or .org site’s traffic to their takedown page. They could do it to Cryptogon or any other site using these top level domains. What other TLDs can the U.S. Government arbitrarily hijack? Via: New York Times: In what appears to be […]
Britain: D-Notice Issued for Upcoming WikiLeaks Diplomatic Documents Dump
November 27th, 2010Torrent: WikiLeaks Insurance File Via: Guardian: David Cameron and other world leaders were being briefed by the US state department about what American diplomats fear will be contained in the expected leak of thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables sent to Washington by US ambassadors around the world. The leak is expected to be co-ordinated by […]
TSA Agents Use Same Set of Gloves to Carry Out Multiple Grope Downs
November 26th, 2010Via: Natural News: There’s a startling fact about the TSA pat-downs that most of us have not realized: TSA agents often do not change their latex gloves between pat-downs! With these pat-down reaching into your pants, feeling your genitals, and sweeping bare armpits and buttocks, those latex gloves being worn by the TSA agents are […]
Nigel Farage To European Parliament: “The Euro Game Is Up… Just Who The Hell Do You Think You Are? You Are Very Dangerous People”
November 25th, 2010Via: ZeroHedge: “Good morning Mr. van Rompuy, you’ve been in office for one year, and in that time the whole edifice is beginning to crumble, there’s chaos, the money’s running out, I should thank you – you should perhaps be the pinup boy of the euroskeptic movement. But just look around this chamber this morning, […]
