Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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The mystery of Google’s floating barges
from usatoday.com: A mysterious four-story barge floating near Treasure Island here has people wondering what Google is up to. A local TV station and CNET offer two theories behind the contents of the boat, which is stacked with shipping containers. CBS-affiliate KPIX, citing an unnamed source close to the project, says Google is constructing an…
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#StopWatchingUs: Anti-NSA Rally Attracts Thousands In DC
from usatoday.com: Thousands rallied against NSA’s domestic and international surveillance on Saturday by marching to the Capitol and calling for closer scrutiny of the agency as more details of its spying are leaked. Holding signs that said “Stop mass surveillance,” “Thank you, Edward Snowden” and “No NSA mass spying,” and chanting slogans like “no secret…
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NSA Site Goes Down Due to Alleged DDoS Attack
from RT.com: The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible. Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the…
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India’s PM Has No Mobile Phone, Email For NSA To Hack
xfrom ndtv.com: The Prime Minister does not own a mobile phone or use personal email, giving India “no cause for concern” about new US hacking revelations, his office said on Friday… Asked if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was concerned, his spokesman replied: “The prime minister doesn’t use a mobile phone and he doesn’t have an…
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US Spied On 35 World Leaders, Produces “Little Intelligence”
from gulftoday.ae: A widening scandal over US spying on its friends and allies put the fight against terrorism centre stage on Friday as EU leaders called for a new understanding with Washington on intelligence gathering. At the close of a summit overshadowed by the spying row, all 28 EU leaders “stressed that intelligence gathering is…
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Ghostly Shape of ‘Coldest Place in the Universe’ Revealed
from natmonitor.com: The Boomerang Nebula, positioned approximately 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, is a somewhat youthful example of a space object called a planetary nebula. According to a news release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, astronomers have spotted the ghostly shape of the Boomerang Nebula, also known as the “coldest place in…
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Ex-NSA director gets a taste of his own eavesdropping
from msnbc.com: Former Bush National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden learned the hard way Thursday afternoon that you never know who’s listening. Hayden was on an Amtrak Acela train reportedly attempting to give an anonymous quote to a newspaper reporter disparaging the Obama administration’s handling of the fallout from revelations that the NSA spied on…
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Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Galaxy
from latimes.com: Just 700 million years after the big bang, our most distant known galaxy was a cauldron of star production, churning out new suns hundreds of times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy, scientists say. But it was only this spring, roughly 13 billion years later, that astronomers first glimpsed evidence of this…
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Obamacare Website Problems Jeopardize Obama’s Legacy
from usatoday.com: As his administration scrambles to fix the online enrollment process under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama is facing a challenge that threatens to undercut the most significant legislative victory of his presidency… The online website was billed ahead of the rollout as an easy-to-use portal where the uninsured could window shop for…
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US Seeking to Soothe France Over NSA Snooping
from abcnews.go.com: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says America is working to find the right balance between protecting peoples’ security and privacy rights. Kerry arrived in Paris Monday to anger over a reported NSA program that collected more than 70 million French telephone records over a month. Kerry said protecting people’s security in today’s…
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Video: SpaceX Grasshopper Makes Another Giant Leap
SpaceX Grasshopper Rocket Takes Giant Leap* from news.discovery.com: Space Exploration Technologies’ prototype reusable rocket, Grasshopper, reached its highest altitude yet, soaring a half-mile into the sky before landing itself back on the ground. The company, also known as SpaceX, this week posted a spectacular video of the test flight from a radio-controlled hovering hexacopter, which…
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Weekend’s EBT, SNAP Chaos Caused by ‘Routine Test’ at Xerox
#BlackFriday comes early as computer glitches cause welfare frenzy* from foxnews.com: In some Walmart stores, customers emptied shelves like it was Black Friday, while in others, no one could buy anything — all thanks to a weekend of glitches with the nation’s welfare system. Problems involving Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, the government payments to…
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2013 Draconid Meteor Shower Expected to Peak Tonight
from oswego.patch.com: Meteor showers, at least the big ones, are fairly predictable as to their arrival, but what you see from Herndon during any of these events is most definitely not. And the Draconid meteor shower 2013 peak is among the most unpredictable of all the celestial shows. If you didn’t have a chance to…
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Internet for all?: A4AI, ‘Alliance for Affordable Internet’ founded
from zdnet.com: In the 21st century, you could argue that Internet access is almost as important as literacy. In much of the developed world, Internet access is affordable and easily available. In the third world, it’s often neither affordable nor available. The newly created Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) seeks to make the Internet accessible…
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NSA & GCHQ target Tor anonymity network
from theguardian.com: The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself. Top-secret NSA documents, disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that the agency’s current successes against…