Category: #CyberSpaceWar
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Retro Sci-Fi Weekend: ‘Journey to the Seventh Planet’
A 1962 sci-fi B-movie, “Journey to the Seventh Planet,” filmed in Denmark for $75,000 USD and co-written and directed by Sidney W. Pink. Pink credited as father of color 3-D movies, and also, for discovering actor Dustin Hoffman. A reader wonders whether beyond a strong exchange rate in early sixties, filmmakers also put casting couch…
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Spy Drone Can See What You Are Wearing From 17,500 Feet
A new camera developed by the Pentagon’s research arm was highlighted in a recent special on PBS’ “Nova” in an episode called “Rise of the Drones.” It’s a camera system so detailed it can discern specific movements and even what a subject is wearing. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous…
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7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online
from Activist Post.com: The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular sites and services including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and more. This means that all of your data when using these…
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Interview with #NSA whistleblower William Binney
from RT.com: American citizens hoping to change the way the NSA monitors their everyday activities have little hope of recourse, longtime agency veteran Bill Binney told RT. He said the way the Patriot Act is interpreted is the a big first step toward totalitarianism. Related: Video: The Program (Stellar Wind)
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#Prism: Australia gets ‘deluge’ of US secret data
from apperspective.net: The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia’s signals intelligence…
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NSA Spying: False Hope vs. Real Solutions
James Corbett goes off on NSA in Boiling Frogs Report. Corbett pleas with viewers in attempt to slap hypnotic masses out of trance. High tech tools to gather – real time – info are clearly biggest threat yet to individual liberty. These high tech programs (see previous posts) are major efforts to place us all…
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After #PRISM, ‘Boundless Informant’ tool comes to light
from CNet.com: Meet the U.S. National Security Agency’s global intelligence tracking tool, Boundless Informant, the latest intelligence secret exposed by leaked information. The stream of leaks revealing the U.S. National Security Agency’s secrets carries on with the public outing of a powerful intelligence tracking tool. In a fresh wave of documents obtained by The Guardian,…
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#Prism – US surveillance leaker Edward Snowden ‘not afraid’
from theaustralian.com.au: The 29-year-old government contractor who turned whistleblower to reveal vast US surveillance programs says he is not afraid, despite the intelligence authorities’ threat to hunt him down. In footage shot by The Guardian newspaper, Edward Snowden said he packed his bags for Hong Kong three weeks ago, leaving behind a “very comfortable…
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Through a #PRISM, Darkly: Tech World’s $20 Million Nightmare
from mashable.com: If you’re still not feeling queasy after reading Thursday’s revelations about the National Security Agency tapping Internet records, you’re probably not paying close enough attention. In short: a leaked intelligence presentation, verified by multiple major news sources, claimed to reveal the existence of an NSA program called PRISM. This program allegedly lets the…
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U.S. Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies In Broad Secret Program
from washingtonpost.com: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time. The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before.…
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Alleged Anonymous hacker raided by FBI after exposing Ohio rape scandal
from RT.com: A 26-year-old Kentucky man says the FBI raided his home earlier this year in an attempt to investigate two hacker groups and the role they played in exposing the players linked to a controversial rape case in Steubenville, Ohio. An aspiring rapper from Winchester, KY named Deric Lostutter revealed Thursday that agents with…
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Taiwanese Users Thwart Government Plans to Introduce Internet Blacklist Law
from EFF.org: Taiwan’s intellectual property office proposed a new Internet blacklist law that would have targeted websites for their alleged use in copyright infringement. The initiative would have forced Internet Service Providers to block a list of domains or IP addresses connected to websites and services found to enable “illegal” file sharing. In the face…