Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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German email providers ‘seen as surveillance safe haven’
from BBC: #NewsFromElsewhere: Web users are turning to German email providers to avoid US state surveillance, it seems. Telecoms firm Freenet has reported an 80% increase in new users in the last three weeks, while web hosting company 1&1 says its email providers GMX and web.de have seen a six-figure increase, reports Der Spiegel. It…
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Who’s Behind the “Biggest Cyberattack” in China’s History?
from thediplomat.com: In what is being called the “biggest cyberattack in its history”, China’s internet was brought down by widespread distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Sunday. As The Wall Street Journal reported, no one is quite sure where the attacks came from, but the timing is certainly interesting from a number of standpoints. Furthermore, some reports are saying…
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UK government now leaking documents about itself
from theguardian.com: The Independent this morning published an article – which it repeatedly claims comes from “documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden” – disclosing that “Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence…
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Police Now Can Switch off iPhone Camera and Wi-Fi
from veteranstoday.com: Police throughout the globe have been embarrassed to see online videos of their officers pepper spraying tied captives. In our age of mobile gadgets the pictures can be uploaded online in seconds, making supervisors to answer the questions. But now the police may not need to fear scrutiny anymore, because Apple has recently…
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Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein selected for Obama’s NSA Review Committee
from emptywheel.net: ABC reports that, along with former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, former Homeland Security Czar Richard Clarke, and former Obama special assistant for economic policy Peter Swire, the White House (or James Clapper — who knows at this point) has picked Cass Sunstein for its Review Committee on NSA programs. Frankly, a lot…
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#Solutions: Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet
from dailydot.com: In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece has created its own private Internet. Built from a network of wireless rooftop antennas, the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) now has more than 1,000 members. Data moves “through” the AWMN mesh up to 30…
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Bradley Manning Gets 35 Years For Leaking Classified Files
from csmonitor.com: The 35-year sentence given Pfc. Bradley Manning – he could be out in 10 years – for the largest leak of classified information in US history reflects the complexity of the case, including harm to national security and how the Army dealt with his problems. Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Espionage…
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‘Snowden data destruction won’t harm our reporting’ – Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger
from Russia Today: The British government’s attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications. Just a day after Glenn Greenwald’s partner was detained at Heathrow airport, The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, came forward describing how the authorities pressured the newspaper to destroy documents provided…
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Domestic Drone Industry Booms
from ActivistPost.com: The drone arms race has gone global. But inside the United States, a study by the Association For Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) showed why drone proliferation continues to ramp up at a nearly exponential rate: it has become one of the fastest growing areas of the U.S. economy. A report entitled, “The…
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DARPA wants computers that fuse with higher human brain function
from networkworld.com: In the never-ending quest to get computers to process, really understand and actually reason, scientists at DARPA want to look more deeply into how computers can mimic a key portion of our brain. The military’s advanced research group recently put out a call, or Request For Information (RFI), on how it could develop…
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Mayor Bloomberg Says City Should Fingerprint Public Housing Residents
from politcker.com: In a bid to boost security at public housing complexes, Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning suggested fingerprinting residents so they can access their homes. “What we really should have is fingerprinting to get in. And of course there’s an allegation that some of these apartments aren’t occupied by the people who originally have…
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US Government Finally Admits: Yes, Area 51 Exists
from gizmodo.com: It’s a good day to be a conspiracy theorist. Ending a decades-long game of leak after leak without any official word, the US government has finally admitted the existence of Area 51 in a recently declassified CIA report detailing the history of the U-2. The National Security Archive at George Washington University published…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: More than 100,000 people want to fly to Mars in 2022
from dailymail.co.uk: More than 100,000 people have applied to be a part of the Mars One project, which aims to colonize the red planet starting in 2022. Out of the thousands, 40 people will be selected. Of the 40, just four will participate in the first passage to Mars, which is scheduled to leave in…
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Pentagon considers employees unhappy with US policies a security threat
from RT.com: The Pentagon is warning its employees to be on the look-out for colleagues who demonstrate an “unhappiness with US foreign policy,” visit family abroad and have financial problems – traits that classify someone as an “insider threat”. Afraid that its federal employees could follow the footsteps of Army Private first class Bradley Manning,…