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22 million missing bush white house emails found
from allgov: Six years after the problem was first discovered, computer experts have located 22 million emails that became lost during the Bush administration. The discovery followed lawsuits filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive, which demanded the government locate the emails. The electronic messages won’t be…
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tsa accidentally reveals airport security secrets
download: transportation security admin: screening procedures – standard operating procedures, 1 may ’08 [1.9mb PDF] from kurt nimmo: Apparently the legal staff at the Transportation Security Administration are as clueless and inept as the guys who search you at the airport. The TSA released a manual for flight and other screening procedures and thought they…
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defcon 12/7: track, leak, shock & confuse
feds ‘pinged’ sprint gps data 8m times over a year*yahoo issues takedown notice for spying price list*yahoo threatens cryptome over leaked surveillance document*yahoo, verizon: our spy capabilities would ‘shock & confuse’ consumersibm poised to acquire database security start-up for $225m*google expands tracking to logged out users*murdoch accuses google of news ‘theft’*pub ‘fined £8k’ for wi-fi…
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comcast to buy control of nbc universal in $30b transaction
from latimes: In a momentous shift in the balance of power of the entertainment industry, cable television giant Comcast Corp. on Thursday made it official by announcing that it was buying control of NBC Universal from General Electric Co. The proposed $30-billion transaction is the culmination of the longtime ambition by Comcast’s chief executive, Brian…
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defcon 11/27: cern, wrecking cru, copyright & crackdown
triumph in geneva! lhc beams up & running again* potty-mouths charged for comcast hijack* nj man sentenced in scientology cyber attack* ‘godfather of spam’ to prison for 4 years* wrecking cru: hackers cause massive climate data breach* climate change hackers leave trail* beginning of the end for the internet in the uk* google previews chrome…
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nsa is giving microsoft some help on windows7 security
from npr: The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. The confirmation of the NSA’s role, which began during the development of the software, is a sign of the agency’s deepening involvement with the…
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media/memes: content is king & corporate schemes
80% say they would not pay for online contentfrom zero hedge: In a blow to ongoing plans by Murdoch (and others) to capitalize on premium content, a new study from Forrester shows that 80% of consumers would not be willing to pay for online news content. As readers are able to move from one content…
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pirate bay retires the world’s largest bit torrent tracker
from threat level: Operators of the The Pirate Bay shuttered the site’s BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers – the servers that bootstrap each BitTorrent download – are no longer necessary with enhancements like DHT and PEX that allow peers to locate one another without accessing a central server, site…
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police state int’l: crowd control, drills & behavior detection
don’t be alarmed by black helicopters over san fernando valley* pneumonic plague drill held in illinois*sound weapons for vancouver police* china conducts nuclear emergency exercise*india holds maritime drill to prevent another 11/26* flashback: coordinated carnage in mumbai; 145 dead*indian mall owners told to beef security arrangements*uk to ‘spy’ on every phone call, email & web…
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11/5 newspurge: media, murder, war & more
media/memes: abc’s v: goebbels would be proud* or: abc series ‘v’: invading, fascist lizards arrive with ‘universal health care’ & ‘message of hope’ – portrays aliens, hell-bent on destroying planet earth, as the obama administration* alfred p. sloan’s monetization of ‘democracy’* lady gaga, the illuminati puppet – part 2* record labels keep blaming p2p, but…
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defcon 10/29: smart grid, nsa supercenters & surveillance
obama announces stimulus funding for the ‘smart grid’*obama invests $3.4b in US electricity grid*feds’ smart grid race leaves cybersecurity in the dust*flashback: corbett report: episode103 – the smart grid cometh*cyberattacks: espionage now, sabotage soon*nsa supercenters to store americans’ private data permanently*government to build $1.5b cybersecurity data center*dhs to announce cyber merger*scan of internet uncovers 1000s…