Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Turkey adopts ‘Orwellian’ internet curbs
from sbs.com.au: Turkish MPs have adopted new internet legislation roundly criticised as a fresh assault by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on freedom of expression, access to information and investigative journalism. The proposals come amid parallel moves by Erdogan to push through contentious judicial reforms as he fights to keep the lid on a deeply…
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Sochi 2014 Security Updates
The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Terrorist Attack. Who is Behind the Caucasus Terrorists? Putin says Boston marathon bombing by Chechen brothers justifies intense Sochi security Putin’s ‘ring of steel’ becomes obvious at Olympics Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/04/216915/putins-ring-of-steel-becomes-obvious.html#storylink=cpy Snow cannons to surveillance boxes, here’s the tech at play in Sochi Journalists to…
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Video: Robotic Limb Helps Amputee Feel Objects Again
from ap.org: Italian researchers have created a prosthetic limb that allowed an amputee to feel for the first time since a firework accident injured him ten years ago.
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German TV Does First Snowden Interview, Uploads to LiveLeak
from reason.com: German TV interviewed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the video of the 30 minute interview is now available at LiveLeak. Not surprisingly, a good bit of the interview focused on NSA spying alliances, activities and capabilities in Europe. The German reporter did, however, ask if Snowden was worried about threats to his life.…
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Avoiding Sochi Snoopers: Using Tor, Common Sense and Nail Polish to Prevent Russian Authorities Spying on Journalists
from ibtimes.co.uk: The Russian authorities are planning to monitor the online activity of every athlete, organiser and journalist during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which begin later this week. Last year Russian prime minister Dimitry Medvedev signed into law a decree which, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, authorises the government to “collect telephone…
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U.S. Plans Car-to-Car Warning System
from nytimes.com: The federal government said on Monday that it planned to require all new cars to broadcast their location, speed, direction and other data, and to receive similar data from other vehicles, to warn drivers of impending collisions. But regulators cautioned that any new rules would be years away. The National Highway Traffic Safety…
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Total Drone Deaths in Pakistan Top 2,000
from allgov.com: More than 2,200 people have been killed by U.S. drones operating in Pakistan since 2006, according to a report obtained by the U.K.-based group The Bureau for Investigative Journalism. The document, compiled by the Pakistani government, lists the date and time of each strike, the number of people killed and injured in each…
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EFF, ACLU Lawsuit Against LAPD ALPRs Begins
from blacklistednews.com: Last Friday the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California filed the opening brief in their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff Department. The lawsuit deals with how the law enforcement agencies are using Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) to…
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NASA to Study Almost Absolute Zero Matter at ISS
from RT.com: NASA has revealed its plans to create the coldest spot in the known universe on board the International Space Station in 2016. The researchers are preparing to study matter at temperatures near absolute zero, revealing the world of quantum mechanics. The US space agency has announced that its researchers are currently working on…
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Twitter Account Hacked By Holding PayPal, GoDaddy Ransom (Updated)
Elaborate Hack Steals Rare Twitter Handle @N* from ibtimes.com: A social drama is unfolding on Twitter after a longtime user had his rare single character handle @N hacked and stolen. The attackers went through great lengths to get the much-coveted handle. Why is this hacking so significant? All of the 26 single-character handles on Twitter…
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Yahoo Identifies Effort to Break Into Users’ Accounts
from bloomberg.com: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the biggest U.S. Web portal, said it recently identified an effort to break into some users’ Yahoo Mail e-mail accounts. The list of names and passwords used in the attack was probably taken from a third-party database, Yahoo said yesterday in a blog post. The company said it acted immediately…
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Stupor Bowl or Snooper Bowl: Police State Technology Ready to Play Big Game
Police State Gets Ready for Super Bowl XLVIII from infowars.com: Super Bowl XLVIII is a level one national security event declared by the Department of Homeland Security allowing Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 to kick in. The directive means the federal government considers the game to be a possible terrorist target and provides authority for…
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Challenger Disaster Home Video Surfaces on 28th Anniversary
from huffingtonpost.com: Frances and Michael VanKulick lived so close to Kennedy Space Center that the windows of their house would rattle every time a space shuttle launched. It was from their front yard in Melbourne, Fla., that Michael VanKulick captured this previously unseen video of the Challenger disaster, which 28 years ago on Tuesday exploded…
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China’s Imperiled Jade Rabbit Moon Rover: ‘Goodnight, Humanity’
from cnn.com: China’s brand new moon rover is already saying farewell. The diminutive lunar explorer, known as Jade Rabbit, or “Yutu” in Chinese, was about halfway through a three-month mission to study the moon’s crust when it suffered a potentially crippling breakdown, said state media. The report, authored by China’s state-run Xinhua news, was written…
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Google Acquires British Artificial Intelligence Developer DeepMind
from dealbook.nytimes.com: As it aims to build driverless cars and the next generation of robots, Google said on Monday that it had acquired the British artificial intelligence developer DeepMind. A Google spokesman confirmed the deal but declined to provide the transaction’s cost or more information on how Google planned to use DeepMind’s projects, which include…