Archive for the 'War' Category
Anonymous Running Attacks on Anti-Wikileaks Sites with Low Orbit Ion Cannon
December 9th, 2010LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon): LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) is a network stress testing application, written in C# and developed by “praetox”. It attempts a denial-of-service attack on the target site by flooding the server with TCP packets, UDP packets, or HTTP requests with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. […]
U.S. Tells Uganda: Consult Us Before Using Intelligence to Commit Atrocities
December 9th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US told Uganda to let it know when the army was going to commit war crimes using American intelligence – but did not try to dissuade it from doing so, the US embassy cables suggest. America was supporting the Ugandan government in its fight against rebel movement the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), […]
Saudi Arabia: U.S. TV Effective for Countering Jihad
December 8th, 2010In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
List of Facilities Vital to U.S. Security Leaked
December 6th, 2010If you look at the State Department document, notice how many times the phrase, “undersea cable landing,” appears? I stopped counting after 50. This goes all the way back to one of my core assumptions on here: If “The Terrorists” were real, this show would have been down long ago. It would take no special […]
Human Resources
December 5th, 2010If Cryptogon had a “required viewing” list, Human Resources would be at the top. However, this is not a movie for beginners. I’ve been gazing down the barrel of this predicament of ours for twenty years and I felt my pulse quicken and the hair on my arms standing on end as I watched this. […]
X-37B Returns to Earth After Seven Months in Orbit; Mission and Capabilities Remain Classified
December 3rd, 2010Via: AP: The U.S. Air Force’s secrecy-shrouded X-37B unmanned spaceplane returned to Earth early Friday after more than seven months in orbit on a classified mission, officials said. The winged craft autonomously landed at at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, Vandenburg spokesman Jeremy Eggers said. “It’s […]
WikiLeaks Open Thread
December 3rd, 2010I’m officially exhausted with the WikiLeaks spectacle. I’m now blocking any mention of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange from my feeds and email submissions. Enough already. Wake me up when I can locally search the whole damn thing on my own. This clown act is a bore. Ok, so these were the stories that caught my […]
Rio Violence Creeps Toward the Beach
November 29th, 2010Update: Big Picture Gallery: Rio’s Drug War Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: A small war took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between Brazilian forces and hundreds of drug traffickers holed up in the shantytown complex dubbed Complexo do Alemão. After recent efforts by officials to pacify Rio’s drug and gang-related violence […]
Iran Admits Uranium Enrichment Centrifuges Hit by Malware
November 29th, 2010Via: AFP: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted Monday that “several” uranium enrichment centrifuges were damaged by “software installed in electronic equipment,” amid speculation Iran’s nuclear activities had come under cyberattack. “They were able to create problems on a limited basis for some of our centrifuges by software installed in electronic equipment,” Ahmadinejad told reporters when asked […]
Recruiting Robots for Combat
November 28th, 2010Via: New York Times: The Maars robots first attracted the military’s interest as a defensive system during an Army Ranger exercise here in 2008. Used as a nighttime sentry against infiltrators equipped with thermal imaging vision systems, the battery-powered Maars unit remained invisible — it did not have the heat signature of a human being […]
