Archive for March, 2010
February Earnings
March 7th, 2010Earnings in February came to a total of $1565.54. This was an outstanding result; it more than blew out the earnings miss from January. Thank you to all contributors and affiliate link patrons for keeping Cryptogon open and available for everyone.
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran
March 7th, 2010Some related reading: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman Via: New York Times: The federal government […]
Outage
March 5th, 2010Cryptogon was down for most readers earlier today. As far as I can tell, this problem did not affect registered users who had logged in BEFORE this problem occurred, and didn’t log out. The outage was related to a problem with WP Super Cache, a plugin that I use with WordPress. I manually wiped out […]
Paypal Closing Cryptome’s Account
March 5th, 2010Via: Cryptome: PayPal sends: Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:03:37 -0800 to: cryptome[at]earthlink.net subject: Update to Your Account, PP-910-103-553 From: service[at]paypal.com SIZE=1555 Dear John Young, We have reviewed your PayPal Account, and due to the excessive risk involved, we would like to begin parting ways in a manner that is least disruptive to your business. […]
Private Military Contractor High on Opium Killed U.S. Marine?
March 5th, 2010Via: Daily Herald: No American soldier should die the way Josh Birchfield did. There was much more to his “supporting combat operations” death than what the military put out. It was the standard Pentagon release. A soldier is killed. A clerk types in their name. “____________ died while supporting combat operations.” There is no Pentagon […]
Point Mobile Phone at Someone, See Their Twitbook
March 5th, 2010Via: Technology Review: An application that lets users point a smart phone at a stranger and immediately learn about them premiered last Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Developed by The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), a Swedish mobile software and design firm, the prototype software combines computer vision, cloud computing, facial recognition, social […]
Baby Dies as Parents Raise Virtual Child Online
March 5th, 2010Via: NineMSN: A Korean couple let their baby starve to death while they were busy raising a virtual child online, police said. The couple, from Suwon in South Korea, would leave their three-month-old daughter home alone in their apartment while they spent up to 12 hours a day playing a Second-Life style3D fantasy game called […]
John Patrick Bedell: Welcome to the Conspiracy Theorist Lone Nut Era
March 5th, 2010Update: Guns in Two Mass Shootings Came from Memphis Police and Court System Via: AP: Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both […]
Passenger and Cargo Ships Trapped in Ice Off Sweden
March 5th, 2010Via: AP: Dozens of ships including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board were trapped Friday in heavy pack ice in the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s east coast, officials said. Ice breakers were trying to free the ferry Amorella and two cargo ships stuck at the edge of an archipelago northeast of Stockholm, […]
DoD Requires Hacker Certification
March 5th, 2010I don’t see this as an ominous development, or, put another way, any more ominous than the baseline level of ominous developments. It’s par for the course. As anyone who has ever been responsible for a network will tell you: You’ll either become like the opponent (on the network), or be owned by him. Or […]
