Archive for the 'Covert Operations' Category
Satire: iPhone 5 NSA
September 18th, 2013Via: We Are Change: Related: Apple Patents Kill Switch for Mobile Devices Because: “Covert Police or Government Operations May Require Complete ‘Blackout’ Conditions.”
‘Your Pulse Could Be Your New Password’
September 17th, 2013Via: CBS: Passwords, pin numbers, and credit cards could soon be a thing of the past. Soon, your heart and your body might be used to keep track of just about everything if new technology is able to unlock “pulse passwords”. Your heartbeat reveals more about you than your health, Bionym chief executive officer Karl […]
‘Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on International Payments
September 15th, 2013Via: Spiegel: The United States’ NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division. The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according […]
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
September 14th, 2013Via: Wired: It wasn’t ever seriously in doubt, but the FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors. Freedom Hosting’s operator, Eric Eoin Marques, had rented the servers […]
Google Probably Knows Nearly Every Wi-Fi Password in the World
September 13th, 2013Via: Computer World: If an Android device (phone or tablet) has ever logged on to a particular Wi-Fi network, then Google probably knows the Wi-Fi password. Considering how many Android devices there are, it is likely that Google can access most Wi-Fi passwords worldwide. Recently IDC reported that 187 million Android phones were shipped in […]
NSA Poses as Legitimate Websites for Man in the Middle Attacks
September 13th, 2013When you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. —U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators Via: Cnet: Here’s one of the latest tidbits on the NSA surveillance scandal (which seems to be generating nearly as many blog items as there are phone numbers in the […]
Alleged Brooklyn Heroin Dealers Careful To Observe Shabbat
September 11th, 2013Via: Gothamist: The NYPD’s narcotics team announced today that it busted a group of allegedly observant Sheepshead Bay drug dealers, a ring that dealt its wares—which included heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and more—in accordance with Shabbat. The six-month sting—dubbed “Only after Sundown”—resulted in the April arrest of five men, with the indictment handed down today. Among […]
NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data with Israel
September 11th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart […]
Saudis Sent Death-Row Inmates to Fight Syrian Government
September 8th, 2013From January. Via: USA Today: Saudi Arabia has sent death-row inmates from several nations to fight against the Syrian government in exchange for commuting their sentences, the Assyrian International News Agency reports. Citing what it calls a “top secret memo” in April from the Ministry of Interior, AINA says the Saudi offered 1,239 inmates a […]
9/11 & Operation Gladio
September 8th, 2013Via: Russia Today:
