Archive for December, 2007
EMERGENCY: ECB OFFERS BANKS UNLIMITED FUNDS
December 18th, 2007Crisis? What crisis? There’s unlimited funds out there. Via: BBC: The hope is that lower interbank rates will mean that banks will also be able to make more funds available at cheaper rates to companies and individuals. The ECB’s action has succeeded in cutting short-term lending rates, although they are still above the 4% ECB […]
EMERGENCY: EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK LOANS US$500 BILLION TO BANKS BELOW MARKET RATES
December 18th, 2007They’re just shredding the confetti into more confetti at this point. Via: Bloomberg: Money market rates tumbled after the European Central Bank injected an unprecedented $500 billion into the banking system as part of a global effort to ease gridlock in the credit market. The amount banks charge each other for two-week loans in euros […]
Schneier: Microsoft Vista SP1 Includes Random Number Generator that Could Contain NSA Backdoor
December 18th, 2007But since most people don’t know which operating system that they’re using… Via: Bruce Schneier: Dual_EC_DRBG Added to Windows Vista Microsoft has added the random-number generator Dual_EC-DRBG to Windows Vista, as part of SP1. Yes, this is the same RNG that could have an NSA backdoor. It’s not enabled by default, and my advice is […]
Australia: Sharemarket Plunges on Credit Concerns
December 18th, 2007Via: The Age: The Australian stock market shredded $54 billion worth of market value today as the global credit crunch claimed its largest Australian victim yet. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 fell more than 3.5 per cent, or 228.2 points to 6263.5 points – exceeding the market rout which followed the September 11 attacks. This equates to […]
Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death Using Biometric Data
December 18th, 2007Years ago, when the news broke that U.S. Forces were collecting biometric data from Iraqis, I was so shocked by the program that I made an effort to archive audio from an NBC news piece about it. Now we know that the data is being used, in part, to draw up execution lists. Remember that […]
Cryptogon Reader Contributes $25
December 18th, 2007Thanks DP!
France: Group Bombs Seven Speed Cameras
December 18th, 2007I don’t know if the insurgents are making a conscious effort by targeting speed cameras, but that is a cunning strategy in terms of PSYOP. They’re targeting regime symbols that are universally despised. Does the group actually think the government will lower taxes? Of course not. But this phase might be about winning over a […]
Phone and Email Data-Mining Used in War on Drugs, Too
December 18th, 2007The headline should be: Phone and Email Data-Mining Used in __________ (Fill in the blank) Via: Wired: Do not let it be said that the Bush administration forgot the War on Drugs while waging the War on Terror. The Drug Enforcement Agency, for one, continued and expanded the data mining records of phone calls and […]
Minneapolis Man Shoots Cops After SWAT Team Kicks Down Wrong Door
December 18th, 2007The only remarkable aspect of this particular story is that the person defending his family from the pigs survived the ordeal. Via: USA Today: A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the […]
To the Reader at the International Organization in Paris
December 17th, 2007I see that you’re fascinated with Cryptogon. Do you have any insights to share with all of us? My public key is here. If you send email from a different domain than the one from which you’re reading Cryptogon, kindly identify the organization in your email so that I know I’m talking to the right […]
