Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Attacking Tor: How the NSA Targets Users’ Online Anonymity
October 5th, 2013Via: Guardian: After identifying an individual Tor user on the internet, the NSA uses its network of secret internet servers to redirect those users to another set of secret internet servers, with the codename FoxAcid, to infect the user’s computer. FoxAcid is an NSA system designed to act as a matchmaker between potential targets and […]
Ibragim Todashev’s Girlfriend Held in Solitary
October 3rd, 2013Via: Salon: Ibragim Todashev, the Chechnyan immigrant who was believed to have connections to the Boston Marathon bombings, was shot dead under questionable circumstances during an interview with an FBI agent earlier this year. Now, his girlfriend is being held in solitary confinement in a Florida prison and according to reports has been told she […]
NSA Admits Bulk Collection of Cell Phone Location Data, But Don’t Worry, This Was Only a Test
October 3rd, 2013*wink* Via: New York Times: The National Security Agency conducted a secret pilot project in 2010 and 2011 to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans’ cellphones, but the agency never moved ahead with such a program, according to intelligence officials. The existence of the pilot project was reported on Wednesday […]
How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
October 2nd, 2013Via: Wired: It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time. Finally, a young woman passed by walking alone to her suburban home. Smith wrenched her handbag from her grasp, jumped into […]
NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
September 28th, 2013Via: New York Times: Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials. The spy […]
Kenya: NIS Knew an Attack Would Happen
September 27th, 2013Via: Independent: Kenya’s National Intelligence Agency (NIS), widely accused by politicians of failing to pick up chatter about the attack, has insisted it did warn the police and officials inside the President’s office before the Westgate siege, but its warnings went unheeded, The Star reported. According to the same report, a pregnant policewoman avoided Westgate […]
Afghanistan: ‘$37 Million Aviation Facility May Have Been Used to Store Opium’
September 26th, 2013Your what hurts? Via: Reuters: The U.S.-led effort to train the Afghan air force faces big challenges ranging from security threats to possible repercussions from a new review of infrastructure and equipment projects, the U.S. general in charge said. “This is a hard deal. We’re far from 100-percent guaranteed on delivery,” said Air Force Brigadier […]
Say Hello to Rick Ross
September 26th, 2013Via: Esquire: Back in the day, Ross would offer the same deal with crack cocaine — to start you out, he’d give you $100 worth for free and you could sell it for $300. Between 1982 and 1989, federal prosecutors estimated, Ross bought and resold three tons of cocaine. In 1980 dollars, his gross earnings […]
Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve
September 24th, 2013This is interesting, but I’m sure that these news based trades are being set up days in advance with much smaller volumes. Why am I sure? Because I look for insider buying before news on dogshit stocks before news, and if bum level executives/criminals are doing this with their penny stocks it’s not a stretch […]
Who Rooted Kernel.org Servers Two Years Ago, How Did it Happen, and Why?
September 24th, 2013Via: Ars Technica: More than two years after unknown hackers gained unfettered access over multiple computers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel, officials still haven’t released a promised autopsy about what happened. The compromise, which began no later than August 12, 2011, wasn’t detected for at least 16 days, a public […]
