Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
‘The Coming Surveillance Dystopia’
March 8th, 2013I wasn’t going to post this. You know all of this, or, at least you should, if you’ve been hanging out here for any length of time. But, Holder, “Dressed like Elvis and surrounded by the Real Housewives of Orange County,” won me over. Must share. Via: The Verge: Assuming that some degree of privacy […]
NZ: Disgruntled Snitch Sues Police
February 25th, 2013Via: Stuff: A former police spy has lifted the lid on his decade of deception under the codename Muldoon. The details of Rob Gilchrist’s double life infiltrating protest groups and leading trade unions are contained in a draft claim for more than $500,000 from police for lost income, for humiliation, distress, and loss of reputation. […]
Germany: ‘Game’ to Destroy CCTV Cameras
February 6th, 2013Hide your face but then upload video of your crimes to a website? *chortle* I’d be astonished if this wasn’t a counterintelligence operation. As I was reading the piece, I was wondering if there were any upcoming protests in Berlin, because this activity would be a good way to come up with a list of […]
Citadel: Masterplanned Doomstead City
January 13th, 2013I wonder what their plan is for defense against the regime dropping MOABs on them? Or even a swarm of armed drones, always overhead? Apaches? Tomahawk missiles??? Maybe this calls for underground bunkers! You know, built to be able to withstand attacks from bunker busters… Here’s how the Citadel’s walled neighborhoods will look to the […]
Greenwich Village Couple Busted with Cache of Weapons, Bombmaking Materials
December 31st, 2012Via: New York Post: The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Village apartment. Morgan Gliedman — who is nine-months pregnant — and her baby […]
Computer Crime Groups Thoroughly Infiltrated by FBI
December 29th, 2012Via: Guardian: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success […]
Navy Fires Two More Commanders
November 22nd, 2012David Petraeus, John R. Allen, Charles M. Gaouette, Jeffrey Sinclair, and now… Via: Stars and Stripes: The Navy on Monday dismissed two commanders amid allegations of misconduct, weeks before they were both scheduled to assume new commands. Capt. Ted Williams was relieved as commander of the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney, and Cmdr. Ray […]
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail, Cloud Docs, Facebook Information and More Without Warrants
November 20th, 2012Update: Dropped — It won’t just be the NSA that will get to have all the fun… Via: Cnet: A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of […]
Cisco VP to Memo leaker: Finding You Is Now ‘My Hobby’
November 9th, 2012In case the leaker happens to be reading: Be aware of canary traps. They might use the technique to try to identify you. Via: Network World: Cisco vice president of services Mike Quinn, a former CIA operations officer, believes that whoever recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated […]
Temporal Analytics: Turning Protest Noise Into Intelligence
October 31st, 2012Sign wavers should read this. Via: AOL: While it’s true, it’s hard to predict what people will do, it’s also increasingly true that people worldwide do emit and discuss their behavior through online social media and that can be monitored and analyzed in nearly real-time. Companies such as intelligence analysis contractor Recorded Future, which is […]
