Tag: bradley manning
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4/28 defcon: guilt trips down the surveillance highway
obama on manning: ‘he broke the law’ – so much for fair trial* video: ‘pentagon papers’ whistleblower daniel ellsberg says bradley manning can’t get fair trial after obama’s comment* some fbi cyber agents lack adequate skills, report finds* tomtom apologies for giving customer driving data to cops* android data tied to users? some say yes*…
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4/21 Defcon: Manning Up & Tracking You Down
Manning under mental evaluation, being moved to Kansas // Protesters interrupt Obama to sing support for Wikileaks suspect // President Obama’s 4/20 Facebook townhall // Poker today, alternative news tomorrow?: US shuttering online gambling sites // White House authoring new cybersecurity bill granting expanded powers to DHS
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Assange: Internet Greatest Spying Machine
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warned Cambridge students, who waited hours to hear him speak, internet is “greatest spying machine the world has ever seen,” in article at guardian.co.uk.
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3/3 Defcon: Fascism, Fake Friends, FOIA
Obama joins critics of nonprofit group that oversees internet; Or, Obama & China agree: Fascist dictators should control the net
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1/27 Defcon: Congress, Connections & ‘The Company’
‘Protecting cyberspace as a national asset act of 2010’ – Bill to give president right to shutdown net back in Congress // Google comes under fire for ‘secret’ relationship with NSA // Social networks under attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US; They don’t connect people – they isolate them // Internet down in Egypt…
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1/13 Defcon: Crimestop, Doublethink, Disconnect
Child porn probe leads to FBI headquarters // Ex-TSA worker gets 2yrs for planting ‘logic bomb’ malware in Colorado Springs screening system // Algorithms take control of Wall Street // Cyberdyne is real & making thought-controlled exoskeletons
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wikileaks: a big dangerous US government con job
William Engdahl provides, perhaps, the best summation of America’s plight in a recent article and podcast. In last month’s article, “Wikileaks–a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job,” Engdahl’s observations are chillingly apt. Wikileaks is too well-scripted to be true. Bradley Manning, the alleged leaker, had impossible access and his leaked material’s content is not “top…