Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses WikiLeaks's exposure of the CIA's powerful hacking toolkit, what devices are most vulnerable to being exploited, and why this leak might be a Russian operation using WikiLeaks as a cutout to release sensitive documents.
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News Roundup 3/8/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
Drone strikes are up over 400% during the Trump presidency. Trump is carrying out a drone strike every 1.25 days. [Link] Wikileaks released documents from the CIA showing some of the programs within the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence. Some of the documents show...
Wikileaks: Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed
by Wikileaks | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
From https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/: Press Release Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the...
Wikileaks Unveils ‘Vault 7’
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog
It's a huge cache of CIA docs -- apparently the CIA version of the Snowden docs, all about their hacking capabilities. Have at it.
News Roundup 3/7/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog
Trump signs a new executive order reinstating the travel ban. This executive order does not include Iraq and does not include VISA holders. The new executive order lists several situations where people may be exempt from the travel ban. Trump is also stopping the...
Major Papers Target AG Sessions Over Russia
by Scott Horton | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog
On Wednesday night, the big three papers, the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall St. Journal, all ran articles attacking the Trump administration over their supposed "ties" to Russia. Yet, in the tradition of anti-Russia hype in the American media, on close...
Trump’s Attorney General’s Record on Privacy
by Kate Tummarello | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the country’s law enforcement has cleared the Senate. The Senate voted 52-47 on Wednesday to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose record on civil liberties issues—including digital rights—has drawn fire from Democratic lawmakers...
Journalist Barrett Brown is out of jail – and has big plans
by Jeff Schechtman | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics
Journalism, Activism, Hacktivism and a New Civic Platform Barrett Brown thinks big. Brown was released from federal prison on November 29 after four years of incarceration for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor. The hack — for which the hacker group...
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Two Years: Gaza Leveled and America on the Table
Today is the second year anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack from Gaza into Israel and the response that will forever stain the reputation of Israel and any nations planet-wide that support the reaction. In the aftermath, I did an extensive series on a...
New York Times Deceptions about the Two-State Solution and Rise of Hamas
The New York Times’ reporting serves to manufacture consent for the US government’s support for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.
Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...
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