Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
One of ISIS’s Top Commanders the U.S. Likely Just Killed Was a ‘Star Pupil’ of U.S. Special-Forces Training
March 10th, 2016Via: Business Insider: During Shishani’s four years in the military, from 2006 to 2010, his unit received some degree of training from American special-forces units. “He was a perfect soldier from his first days, and everyone knew he was a star,” an unnamed former comrade still active in the Georgian military told McClatchy DC. “We […]
At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs and Top Republicans Plot to Stop Trump
March 8th, 2016Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. —The Prestige I’m trying to understand this Trump situation and the hysterical freakout that’s ensuing in elite and media circles. Trump could have been vote-frauded into […]
MIT’s New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
March 6th, 2016“all you have to do is go in the lab, apply more technology, and you should be able to make a bigger quantum computer” So the only thing preventing a more general purpose quantum computer is money and enough engineers… Hmm… Via: PC World: Much of the encryption world today depends on the challenge of […]
Dripping Blood, a Severed Arm, & 67 Tons of Cash on a CIA Plane
February 24th, 2016This is a good one. Via: Mad Cow Productions: When the ground crew at Harare International Airport comes out to refuel the plane, they’re horrified to see blood dripping down the fuselage. The plane’s crew dismisses it. Its led by two Americans, who claim they hit a bird earlier. Somebody calls the cops. … Stacked […]
America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria
February 20th, 2016Via: BuzzFeed: American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government. The infighting between American proxies is the latest […]
Radioactive Material Stolen in Iraq from Oil Company — ISIS Dirty Bomb?
February 17th, 2016WND threat from Saddam Hussein: Not so much. And now, in the Post-Mission-Accomplished era… Via: Reuters: Iraq is searching for “highly dangerous” radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State. The […]
The NSA’s SKYNET Program May be Killing Thousands of Innocent People
February 16th, 2016Via: Ars Technica: In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that “we kill people based on metadata.” Now, a new examination of previously published Snowden documents suggests that many of those people may have been innocent. Last year, The Intercept published documents detailing the NSA’s SKYNET programme. According to the […]
New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds
February 1st, 2016“The history of technology shows that what is invented for convenience can soon become a target of surveillance.” “The history of technology shows that what is invented for convenience can soon become a target of surveillance.” “The history of technology shows that what is invented for convenience can soon become a target of surveillance.” Via: […]
NSA’s Hacker-in-Chief: We Don’t Need Zero-Days To Get Inside Your Network
January 31st, 2016I’m posting this for people in network management and security rolls who have to deal with managers who don’t really get it. This talk isn’t for you IT people, because you already know all of this. It’s for the people who block you from trying to do your job effectively. And this is just for […]
Israeli Drone Feeds Hacked By British and American Intelligence
January 29th, 2016Via: The Intercept: AMERICAN AND BRITISH INTELLIGENCE secretly tapped into live video feeds from Israeli drones and fighter jets, monitoring military operations in Gaza, watching for a potential strike against Iran, and keeping tabs on the drone technology Israel exports around the world. Under a classified program code-named “Anarchist,” the U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters, or […]
