Tag: defcon
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Defcon 7/29: Leaky Lawsuits
100 million Facebook pages ‘leaked’ on torrent site // ‘Minority Report’ technology used by UK police to predict crimes // Tokyo trials digital billboards that scan passers-by // 2nd student sues school district over webcam spying
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Defcon 7/22: Bleaker For Bloggers
False flag cyber attack could takedown the internet // Obama joins UN to dictate acceptable behavior on the net // Feds ignore 1st Amendment, shut down 1000s of blogs // Google launches coverup of ‘Google Spies’ story
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Defcon 7/15: Tracked, Traced & Databased
Consumer group sniffs Congresswoman’s open wi-fi // Fmr. NSA exec Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak // NSA executive leaked after official reporting process failed // Mobile phones ‘causing memory loss’ // Teens using digital drugs to get high
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Defcon 7/1: Fight the Net, Biomet & Int’l Sex Station
The secret state’s mad scheme to control the net // Windows 8 features, like biometrics, revealed in leaked Microsoft documents // Obama space plan under continuous assault // NASA commander says sex banned aboard International Space Station
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Defcon 6/24: More Leaks & Lawsuits
Ellsberg says US might ‘assassinate’ Wikileaks head // DARPA taking fire for its cyberwar range
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Defcon 6/17: Civilization, Sun & a Stunning Interface
NASA: Civilization will end in 2013 (possibly) // Electronic armageddon on National Geographic // Supreme Court: Police officer’s texting not private
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Defcon 6/9: Wikileaked, Registered & Artificials
State Dept anxious about diplomatic secrets Bradley Manning allegedly downloaded // DHS would be cyber power center under Lieberman/Collins proposal // Wireless signals to be jammed in Canada for G8 summit // Calls increase for govt to regulate net journalists & bloggers // More active sun means nasty solar storms ahead
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defcon 5/27: hacking cough, fever & runny nodes
man infects himself with computer virus* video: cyberwar could cripple the nation* clarke: next terrorist threat will be from those resisting technology* india sees cyber warfare as new-gen security threat* second man jailed over scientology ddos attacks* space so full of junk that a satellite collision could destroy communications on earth* shuttle atlantis completes 32nd…
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Defcon 5/20: Dumb F*cks, Spy Planes & Bar Codes
Facebook founder called trusting users ‘dumb fucks’ // Students to be given access to laptop spy photos // Where’s Jimmy? Just Google his bar code
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Defcon 5/13: Web Tax, Hacks & Output Jacks
FCC lets Hollywood turn off your output jacks // World Health Org moving ahead on billions in internet & other taxes // Richard Clarke says cyber attack will wreck US in 15min // Pentagon turns to brain implants to repair damaged minds // Nintendo CEO: Apple is the ‘enemy of the future’
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Defcon 5/6: Global Cooperation & Orwellian Legislation
Summit in Dallas targets cybercrime – sponsored by Goldman Sachs & Microsoft, etc // IBM’s city sim trains planners to tackle future problems for growing urban centers // Cyber attacks hyped to justify net regulation // Report reams admins for secretly snapping student pics
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Defcon 4/29: Global Strike, Space Planes & Electronic Warfare
Missing Soviet nuclear electrocar found on the Moon! // Ex-NSA official pleads not guilty to helping reporter // Chavez accuses US plane of ‘electronic warfare’ // Police seize Gizmodo’s computers in lost iPhone probe // Students struggle to go without media for 24hrs
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Defcon 4/22: Takedowns, Lockups & Predictive Analytics
Google exposes government takedown requests* Google: US demanded user info 3,500 times in 6 months* Google hackers stole source code of global password system* Second banker accused of stealing high-frequency trading code* McAfee antivirus program locks up pc’s worldwide* Crime prediction software is here & it’s a very bad idea* Precrime in Florida: IBM’s predictive…
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defcon 4/15: transhumanism, twitter, radio waves & fireballs
merging man & machine: we are the internet* youtube goes orwellian: now requires sms from every new registrant* how tweet it is!: library of congress acquires entire twitter archive* russia has no plans to deploy weapons in space* cyberwar doomsayer mcconnell lands $34m in govt cyberwar contracts for booz* cyberwar commander survives senate hearing* mysterious…