Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
U.S. Tech Giants Knew of NSA Data Collection, Agency’s Top Lawyer Insists
March 19th, 2014Via: Guardian: The senior lawyer for the National Security Agency stated unequivocally on Wednesday that US technology companies were fully aware of the surveillance agency’s widespread collection of data, contradicting months of angry denials from the firms. Rajesh De, the NSA general counsel, said all communications content and associated metadata harvested by the NSA under […]
Malaysia Airlines Pilot Filmed Being Trained in Boeing 777-200 a Month Before Flight Disappeared
March 18th, 2014This is definitely Coincidence Gold. Via: New York Post: A month before he was a co-pilot in a bizarre plane disappearance, Malaysia Airlines pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid was happy to finally be getting his chance to fly a Boeing 777-200. CNN aviation expert Richard Quest had coincidentally filmed a training session for the 27-year-old co-pilot […]
NSA Capable of Recording Audio from 100% of Unnamed Country’s Phone Calls
March 18th, 2014The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, CEO of CIA contractor Amazon.com, is working with U.S. Government censors to conceal the name of the country in question. Even if we did know the country, this is a ridiculous limited hangout. My guess is that the same thing is happening in the U.S. and that the […]
Could MH370 Have Been ‘Swapped’ Mid-Air?
March 18th, 2014Via: Yahoo!7 News: Could the aircraft have been ‘swapped’ mid-air? Generally air traffic radars use something called a “Squawk” code – this is 4 digits, say ‘1234’ – that is then used to transmit information to the ground radar of the aircraft’s position and other relevant detail. This is very easily disabled – it is […]
How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware
March 12th, 2014Via: First Look: Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. The classified files – provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – contain new details about […]
Christian Cult Leader Worked Tampa “BLACK ICE” Operation
March 8th, 2014Via: Mad Cow Productions: Moreover, during the 1970’s and 1980’s, McClain was one of the leaders of a bizarre Christian cult which grew to more than 10,000 members living on farms and ranches in wilderness areas on three separate continents, including remote corners of Colombia, Peru, and Guatemala. According to an account in the New […]
Satoshi Nakamoto, Creator of Bitcoin, Has “Done Classified Work for Major Corporations and the U.S. Military”
March 6th, 2014Update: Nakamoto Now Claims, “I Never Was Involved” Via: Los Angeles Times: The day started with a possible answer to one of the digital era’s greatest mysteries: Who created the bitcoin virtual currency that has become a multibillion-dollar global phenomenon? From there, with the unlikely revelation by Newsweek magazine that it might be Dorian Satoshi […]
Obama Is Complicit in Suppressing the Truth About Torture
March 5th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: President Obama is complicit in suppressing the truth about CIA torture of prisoners. That’s clear from the fact that the Senate intelligence committee’s $40 million, 6,000-page torture report is still being suppressed 15 months after being adopted.
Critical Crypto Bug Leaves Several Linux Distributions, Hundreds of Apps Open to Eavesdropping
March 4th, 2014Via: Ars Technica: Hundreds of open source packages, including the Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Debian distributions of Linux, are susceptible to attacks that circumvent the most widely used technology to prevent eavesdropping on the Internet, thanks to an extremely critical vulnerability in a widely used cryptographic code library. The bug in the GnuTLS library makes […]
Yahoo Webcam Images from Millions of Users Intercepted by GCHQ
February 27th, 2014Via: Guardian: Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats […]
