Archive for June, 2012
Several Pentagon Contractors Recruiting for Offensive Cyberwarfare Jobs
June 16th, 2012Via: Forbes: Over the past few months, Hypponen has been periodically visiting the “careers” section of defense contractors’ websites and online job listings, particularly those targeted at candidates with secret clearances, and searching for words like “exploit,” “offensive,” and “vulnerability.” And the positions he’s been seeing show a new recruiting focus–or newly explicit focus–among the […]
U.S. Outsources Its Africa Spying
June 15th, 2012Via: Danger Room: Africa is important enough to the United States to spy on. Just not with official U.S. military personnel. The military’s Africa Command is outsourcing dramatic amounts of surveillance missions. And if something should go wrong, the contractors are on their own.
U.S. Needs Another 600 Humans to Fly Its Robot Planes
June 15th, 2012Via: Wired: The Pentagon doesn’t have nearly enough people to operate its growing fleet of flying robots. Right now, the US Air Force is short nearly 600 drone pilots and sensor operators. And that’s before the military carries out its plans to more than double its armada of remotely operated Reaper aircraft by 2015. Air […]
Moody’s Cuts 11 European Banks’ Ratings
June 15th, 2012Via: Reuters: Moody’s has cut the ratings of 11 European banks and said it would cut again if Greece ditched the euro, kicking off a long-awaited round of downgrades for major European institutions. Moody’s Investors Service said on Friday it had taken action against five Dutch banking groups, three French banks and one each from […]
Central Banks Locked and Loaded
June 15th, 2012Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. People are emailing me about other sites that are going full freakout with advice to empty bank accounts and activate doomsteads, etc. and why am I not freaking out, running for the hills, etc. Ok, first of all, I “ran for […]
The European Atrocity You Never Heard About
June 14th, 2012Via: The Chronicle of Higher Education: What was different about the deportation of Loch and his fellow passengers, however, was that it took place by order of the United States and Britain as well as the Soviet Union, nearly two years after the declaration of peace. Between 1945 and 1950, Europe witnessed the largest episode […]
Apple’s Siri to Ride Shotgun in Cars From Nine Major Auto Manufacturers
June 14th, 2012Via: Gizmag: As part of its keynote speech on the opening day of this year’s WWDC, Apple mentioned that Siri will be featured in vehicles from no less than nine major global automakers. Not only will Siri be making her much anticipated iPad debut, but she’ll also be joining you on your daily commute. Apple […]
What Facebook Knows
June 14th, 2012Via: MIT / Technology Review: If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world. It would far outstrip any regime past or present in how intimately it records the lives of its citizens. Private conversations, family […]
U.S. Bolsters Ties to Fighters in Syria
June 14th, 2012In other news: Syria: Clinton Admits U.S. On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilize Assad Government. Via: Wall Street Journal: U.S. intelligence operatives and diplomats have stepped up their contacts with Syrian rebels in part to help organize their burgeoning military operations against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, according to senior U.S. officials. As part […]
‘Visit America: It’s Easier Than You Think’
June 14th, 2012The spoofs of this will be brutal. Via: U.S. State Department:
