Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Bill Would Require Government and Private Sector to Require Minimum Cybsersecurity Standards for Devices that Connect to the Internet
December 16th, 2010More specifically, we need to reengineer the Internet to make attribution, geolocation, intelligence analysis and impact assessment — who did it, from where, why and what was the result — more manageable. —Mike McConnell, VP Booz Allen Hamilton It’s like the man says at the blog below, “Here it comes.” Via: Economic Policy Journal: Sen. […]
YouTube Gives Users Ability To Flag Content That ‘Promotes Terrorism’
December 16th, 2010Via: Huffington Post: In response to concerns it’s become a means of radical promotion, YouTube has now added an option for flagging content that is terrorist in nature. When you flag a video as inappropriate, “promotes terrorism” now appears as an option under the “violent or repulsive content” category on the Google-owned website (see screenshot […]
Allegations of FBI Backdoors in OpenBSD
December 15th, 2010Via: IT World: Amidst startling accusations revealed by OpenBSD founder and lead developer Theo de Raadt today that 10 years ago the US Federal Bureau of Investigations paid developers to insert security holes into OpenBSD code, some confusion about the accusations has already emerged, with one named party strongly denying any involvement. According to a […]
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), […]
FBI Plants Informant in Mosque to Incite Violence; Muslims Report Him to FBI (Not The Onion)
December 5th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys. “This is Farouk al-Aziz, code name Oracle,” he said into the keys as he sat in his parked car in this […]
The Christmas Tree Bomber
November 28th, 2010Here’s another one for your already bulging Oh for F*ck’s Sake file folder. Via: AP: The teenager accused of attempting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Ore., was acting on his own initiative and not at the direction of any foreign terrorist organization, a law enforcement official said Saturday. Mohamed Osman Mohamud […]
Did Somebody Just Try to Buy the British Government?
November 3rd, 2010Update: Video —End Update— Wow, oh wow. Here’s one for your Double Plus WTF? file folder. It’s in the Lords Hansard. That’s the link. Scroll down to 1 Nov 2010 : Column 1538. Tell me this is simply a case of a codger and too many single malt drinkies. If not, this is the most […]
‘Coal Country’ Documentary, Aired on Planet Green, Called Potential Threat by PA Dept of Homeland Security
October 28th, 2010Via: Treehugger: I don’t know if we should be flattered or scared: It’s come to TreeHugger’s attention that Coal Country, a documentary which originally aired on Planet Green’s Reel Impact series of programing last November, was singled out at the time as a potential security threat by the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security…
Department of Homeland Security’s “Social Networking Monitoring Center”
October 14th, 2010Via: EFF: Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent […]
