Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
How “Fansmitter” Malware Can Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers
June 30th, 2016Via: MIT Technology Review: Changing a computer’s fan speed produces an audio signal that can be hijacked to steal data, say computer security experts who have tested the technique. … Fansmitters are simple in principle. Almost all computers use fans to cool the main CPU and the graphics card, and to pump air through the […]
Fast and Furious: Gun Used in Paris Terrorist Attacks Came from Phoenix
June 30th, 2016Via: Judicial Watch: One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.” A Report of Investigation (ROI) filed by a case agent in […]
While Brazil Was Eradicating Zika Mosquitoes, America Made Them Into Weapons
June 24th, 2016Via: Atlas Obscura: In the 1950s, while in South America military-like brigades were hunting down Aedes aegypti, in the United States, the Army was falling in love with the same mosquito. At Fort Detrick, the military’s biological weapons base in Maryland, in great secret, Army scientists were considering how fleas, grasshoppers, and mosquitoes might be […]
GCHQ Spy Programme with Secret Link to Scottish Police
June 12th, 2016Via: The National: SECRET reports leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed how UK mass surveillance of phone and internet activity was accessed by Scottish police forces. The documents confirm that a little-known policing body called the Scottish Recording Centre (SRC) was given access to information logs that include millions of communications data, including […]
Orlando: Mass Shooting at Nightclub
June 12th, 2016Judge Napolitano: “Nobody Died Until 05:13 in the Morning” — Gun Store Owner: We Called FBI Before Orlando Shooting Via: CBS: The co-owner of a Florida gun store says his employees contacted law enforcement before the Orlando shooting after gunman Omar Mateen attempted to purchase body armor and ammunition. Robbie Abell, co-owner of Lotus Gunworks, […]
Shocker: MPs’ Private Emails Are Routinely Accessed by GCHQ
June 4th, 2016Via: Computer Weekly: GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA) have access to intercepted emails sent and received by all members of the UK Parliament and peers, including with their constituents, a Computer Weekly investigation has established.
The Rise of the Meta-Criminal
June 2nd, 2016Via: Jon Rappoport: Trevor Timm of the Electronic Freedom Frontier dug up a very interesting nugget. It was embedded in the heralded December 2013 White House task force report on spying and snooping. Under Recommendations, #31, section 2, he found this: “Governments should not use their offensive cyber capabilities to change the amounts held in […]
Article In Saudi Daily: U.S. Planned, Carried Out 9/11 Attacks – But Blames Others For Them
May 24th, 2016Via: The Middle East Media Research Institute: …what happened in the [Twin] Towers was a purely American action, planned and carried out within the U.S. Proof of this is the sequence of continuous explosions that dramatically ripped through both buildings… Expert structural engineers demolished them with explosives, while the planes crashing [into them] only gave […]
Stanford Quantifies the Privacy-Stripping Power of Metadata
May 17th, 2016Via: Tech Crunch: More proof, if proof were needed, of the privacy-stripping power of metadata. A multi-year crowdsourced study, conducted by Stanford scientists and published this week, underlines how much information can be inferred from basic phone logs cross-referenced with other public datasets. (Reminder: the former director of the NSA and the CIA, General Michael […]
U.S.-Funded Somali Intelligence Agency Has Been Using Kids as Spies
May 7th, 2016Via: Washington Post: For years they were children at war, boys given rifles and training by al-Qaeda-backed militants and sent to the front lines of this country’s bloody conflict. Many had been kidnapped from schools and soccer fields and forced to fight. The United Nations pleaded for them to be removed from the battlefield. The […]
