Archive for the 'War' Category
U.K. Researchers to Test “Artificial Volcano” for Geoengineering the Climate
September 15th, 2011Via: Scientific American: Next month, researchers in the U.K. will start to pump water nearly a kilometer up into the atmosphere, by way of a suspended hose. The experiment is the first major test of a piping system that could one day spew sulfate particles into the stratosphere at an altitude of 20 kilometers, supported […]
Zero Day Industrial Control System Exploits Published
September 15th, 2011Via: SC Magazine: A security researcher has disclosed a laundry list of unpatched vulnerabilities and detailed proof-of-concept exploits that allow hackers to completely compromise major industrial control systems. Security researcher Luigi Auriemma disclosed the attacks against six SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems including US giant Rockwell Automation. The step-by-step exploits allowed attackers to […]
NRO Will Display Ancient Spy Satellites
September 15th, 2011Via: The Space Review: Later this week the National Reconnaissance Office is going to reveal information on two of its Cold War era satellite programs, HEXAGON and GAMBIT, and publicly unveil hardware that has been classified for decades. GAMBIT was started in 1960, with a first launch in 1963. HEXAGON started in 1966, with a […]
New American Ally in Somalia: ‘The Butcher’
September 9th, 2011Via: Wired: If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Just wait to you see our latest ally: an admirer of Osama bin Laden with a gory past. Richard Rouget, a notorious gun-for-hire who uses American funds […]
FedEx and Pepsi Are Top Defense Contractors? 5 Corporate Brands Making a Killing on America’s Wars
September 7th, 2011Via: AlterNet: Chances are, if you’ve ever sent a package overnight, bought a PC or a can of soda, you’ve paid your hard-earned money to a major Pentagon contractor. While large defense corporations that make fighter jets and armored vehicles garner the most attention, tens of thousands of “civilian” companies, from multi-national corporations hawking toothpaste […]
Britain: Tanks Test Infra-Red Invisibility Cloak
September 6th, 2011Via: BBC: Tanks could soon get night time invisibility thanks to a cloaking device that masks their infra-red signature. Developed by BAE Systems, the Adaptiv technology allows vehicles to mimic the temperature of their surroundings. It can also make a tank look like other objects, such as a cow or car, when seen through heat-sensitive […]
Snowballing DigiNotar Situation: Rogue SSL Certificates Were Also Issued for CIA, MI6, Mossad
September 5th, 2011SSLLOL. Via: HelpNetSecurity: The number of rogue SSL certificates issued by Dutch CA DigiNotar has balooned from one to a couple dozen to over 250 to 531 in just a few days. As Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor project shared the full list of the rogue certificates, it became clear that fraudulent certificates for domains […]
CIA, MI6 Helped Gaddafi on Dissidents
September 4th, 2011[???] Via: Reuters: Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. The documents were uncovered by the human rights activist group in the abandoned offices of Libya’s former spy chief and […]
The Washington Post Piece About the ‘Wasted’ Tens of Billions of Dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan
September 4th, 2011There are, however, a few metrics by which “victory” for the U.S. in Afghanistan may be measured. First of all, the fact that mayhem continues is a victory for the corporations that profit from the absurd war-related contracts. There’s the unknown billions of heroin related dollars that are generated from covert operations in Afghanistan. The […]
Western Powers and the Oil Prize in Libya
September 3rd, 2011Imagine our shock. Via: Guardian: The starting pistol has been fired on bids by Britain and other western powers to secure a slice of the oil prize in Libya when France said it was “fair and logical” for its companies to benefit. Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, planted his flag in the sand as […]
