Archive for the 'War' Category
Thai Stock Exchange on Fire, Blackouts Hit Bangkok
May 19th, 2010Via: Reuters: The Thai stock exchange was on fire and parts of Bangkok were hit by power blackouts on Wednesday as violence continued, even though anti-government protest leaders surrendered and troops said they were in control. The stock exchange building was on fire, the exchange’s president told Reuters, while witnesses said major tourist hotels had […]
Hack Attacks On Car Control Systems
May 19th, 2010Via: BBC: The computer systems used to control modern cars are very vulnerable to attack, say experts. An investigation by security researchers found the systems to be “fragile” and easily subverted. The researchers showed how to kill a car engine remotely, turn off the brakes so the car would not stop and make instruments give […]
Prominent Mexican Politician Kidnapped
May 16th, 2010Via: Reuters: A major figure in Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s conservative party was missing and feared dead on Saturday after his abandoned car was found with signs of violence, the attorney general’s office said. Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, 69, an outspoken lawyer who was a presidential candidate for Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN, in […]
Conficker Worm: The Enemy Within
May 16th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could […]
U.S. Government Can Execute Its Own Citizens With No Judicial Process And Based On Secret Intelligence
May 15th, 2010What do we learn from the New York Times in the article below? Some legal authorities are deeply uneasy about the U.S. Government’s arbitrary assassination of Americans. That is supposed to soothe us, I think. We can rest assured that someone feels deeply uneasy about the government murdering its own citizens. I don’t know about […]
Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram
May 15th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) runs a classified interrogation facility for high-value detainees inside Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, defense and administration officials said, and prisoners there are sometimes subject to tougher interrogation methods than those used elsewhere. Both the New York Times and the BBC reported that prisoners who passed through […]
18 Missiles, 14 Dead in Latest Drone Attack
May 11th, 2010Via: Wired: There was a massive drone attack in Pakistan today — one involving multiple unmanned aircraft and “up to 18 American missiles,” according to the Associated Press. 14 people are dead. This second robotic strike in three days is the latest sign that the American drone war in Pakistan has reached a new peak. […]
‘Starving Yogi’ Astounds Indian Scientists
May 11th, 2010Via: AFP: An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period. Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a hospital in the western India state of Gujarat under constant surveillance from a team of […]
Pentagon Developing Brain Implants That Use Fiber Optics to Stimulate Neurons
May 10th, 2010Via: Wired: Significant progress has already been made in understanding brain injury. Scientists can create conceptual, mathematical models of brain activity, and are also able to record the electrical pulses emitted by individual neurons in the brain, which offers insight into how those neurons communicate. That knowledge has spurred rapid progress in neural-assisted prosthetic devices, […]
Marines Axe Internet Bomb-Shopping Plan
May 10th, 2010Via: Wired: Remember the Marines’ buy-bomb-parts-on-the-Internet research proposal? Well, forget it. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory canceled the effort, after word of it leaked to Danger Room. The “Commercial Hunter” project was supposed to help the Corps understand what kind of arsenal could be ordered online, by giving university researchers 40 hour to conduct an […]
