Tag: nsa
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Intel Agency Workers Downloaded Child Porn on Gov’t Networks
“The disastrous rise of misplaced power exists & will persist…” from boston globe: Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material, according to investigative reports. The investigations have…
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Google’s Wi-Spying & Intel Ties Prompt Call for Congressional Hearing
Citing new information about Google’s classified government contracts and the Internet giant’s admitted Wi-Spying activity, Consumer Watchdog today said it is more imperative than ever for the Energy and Commerce Committee to conduct hearings into possible privacy violations by Google.
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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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9/11 Updates: Feds, FOIA & My 4,000th Post
A federal judge in Manhattan who was criticized by families of victims of 9/11 for taking too long to decide motions in lawsuits they had filed has handed down a ruling dismissing claims made against many of the defendants.
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Police State Updates: Terror Drills & Rehearsal of Misfortune
Huge number of disaster drills held throughout America // Chicago tests CRBN response teams // Local, state workers to drill disaster in Charleston, SC // Emergency drill ‘patients’ taken to Vancouver, WA hospital // Expedia’s Toronto office runs yearly disaster drill
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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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1,000 jobs headed to fort meade under cyber security
‘we don’t wanna defend the net’ (we want to fight the net) from baltimore business journal: There are still more questions than answers, but information trickling out from the Pentagon is giving a clearer sense for what the military’s cyber security headquarters at Fort George G. Meade will look like. The U.S. Defense Department now…
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pentagon’s cybercom preps war against the american people
from kurt nimmo: NSA Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander told the Senate Armed Services Committee in April that he would work to protect the privacy rights of Americans online. It was an interesting comment from a man who heads up an organization responsible for a massive program of illegal dragnet surveillance of domestic communications and…
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Booz/McConnell Get $400m In Cyberwar Contracts In Past 6 Weeks
Coincidences sure are funny things. Booz Allen Hamilton – the defense contractor that’s become synonymous with the idea that the U.S. is getting its ass kicked in an ongoing cyberwar – has racked up more than $400 million worth of deals in the past six weeks to help the Defense Department fight that digital conflict.…
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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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corbett report: episode128/129 – rise of fema/calea & the stellar wind
corbett report: episode128 – rise of fema from corbett report: The Corbett Report is pleased to present the audio of Alex Jones’ latest documentary, Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA. In this detailed dissection of the police state, Jones breaks down the incremental implementation of martial law and how we are being conditioned to…
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Pentagon’s Cybercom Says Civilian Infrastructure “Legitimate” Target
When U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates launched Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) last June, the memorandum authorizing its stand-up specified it as a new “subordinate unified command” under U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), one that “must be capable of synchronizing warfighting effects across the global security environment as well as providing support to civil authorities and…
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corbett report: episode125 – old hickory & the den of vipers
from corbett report: Whatever one thinks of Andrew Jackson and his legacy, he was surely never one to back down from a fight. So when he took on the Second Bank of the United States it was an unstoppable force against an immovable object. In short, the bank never knew what hit it. Find out…
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Defcon 3/25: Killswitch, Siphons & Existential Threats
Large Hadron Collider cranked to ‘maximum redline power’ // US Secret Service paid TJX hacker $75k a year // Your health, tax & search data siphoned // Why CNN exec fears social-networking sites // Google exits China – except for part known as Hong Kong // Chinese media: Google is tied to US intelligence