Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
The Secret Message Hidden in Every HTTP/2 Connection
November 30th, 2015Via: jgc: If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you’ll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of the connection… Written a little more clearly that’s: PRI * HTTP2.0 SM The HTTP verb is PRI and the body contains just SM. Put them together and you get… […]
British Government Compensates Women Who Spent Years in Fake Relationships with Undercover Cops
November 25th, 2015Via: Guardian: Back then, the public knew little about a covert operation that had been running since 1968. Only a limited number of senior police officers knew about it. Kennedy was one of more than 100 undercover officers who, over the previous four decades, had transformed themselves into fake campaigners for years at a time, […]
Dominican Republic Issues Warrants Over Fugitive French Pilots
November 24th, 2015Via: BBC: A judge in the Dominican Republic has issued arrest warrants for three Frenchmen accused of helping two French pilots flee drug convictions. One of the three, Aymeric Chauprade, is an independent right-wing member of the European parliament. The pilots were arrested in 2013 preparing to take off in a plane carrying 26 suitcases […]
Michael Hand Found Living in the United States
November 14th, 2015Via: Sydney Morning Herald: One of Australia’s most wanted fugitives, Michael Hand, the co-founder of the Sydney-based international merchant bank Nugan Hand, has been found alive and well and living in small-town America. He vanished in 1980 amid rumours of CIA and organised crime involvement in the bank as the United States attempted to back […]
Dozens of People Killed in Terrorist Attacks Across Paris
November 13th, 2015Live Video Coverage: France 24 — Via: CNN: Dozens of people are reported dead after what are being called terror attacks across Paris. Police early Saturday freed hostages at a concert hall. The attacks seemed to be planned to hit areas where many people would be gathered on a Friday night in Paris, officials said.
MI5 Secretly Collected Phone Data for Decade
November 6th, 2015Via: BBC: MI5 has secretly been collecting vast amounts of data about UK phone calls to search for terrorist connections. The programme has been running for 10 years under a law described as “vague” by the government’s terror watchdog. It emerged as Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled a draft bill governing spying on communications by […]
Shocker: Court Chooses to Ignore Overwhelming Evidence of NSA’s Mass Internet Spying
October 27th, 2015Via: ACLU: A federal district court yesterday dismissed Wikimedia v. NSA, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of a broad group of educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations whose communications are swept up by the NSA’s unprecedented Internet dragnet. Our lawsuit concerns the NSA’s “upstream” surveillance, which involves the mass interception and […]
Saudi Price Arrested, Two Tons of Amphetamines Found on His Private Jet
October 26th, 2015Two. Tons. Via: Telegraph: A Saudi prince has been detained at Beirut airport in Lebanon after two tons of an amphetamine drug popular with Syrian rebels was found on a private jet. Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four other men were held after what was described as the biggest ever drugs bust […]
War Criminal Tony Blair Sorry for Iraq War
October 24th, 2015Via: Independent: Tony Blair has made apologies about aspects of the Iraq War for the first time and has said there are ‘elements of truth’ in the theory that the invasion helped feed the rise of the so-called Islamic State (Isis). In an television interview with the US network CNN, the former British Prime Minister […]
The Drone Papers
October 15th, 2015Via: The Intercept: The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.
