Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
U.S. Government Agencies to Measure ‘Relative Happiness’ and ‘Despondence and Grumpiness’ to Gauge Trustworthiness
January 6th, 2011One for your Unworkable, Maniac Fascist, Magic 8 Ball Schemes file folder. Via: MSNBC: The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting “insider threat” programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned. As part […]
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
We Briefly Interrupt the Rubber Hose Beatings…
December 17th, 2010Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment Context: The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.” Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski
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 […]
