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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Anti-War Blog – Rafah is now a memory
“Down this road on a summer day in 1944, the soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, a community, which had lived for a thousand years, was dead. This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the...
Be Careful Who You Defend
ICE tactics in MN have been heavy handed and the “protesters” are funded by the same people that have funded every color revolution of the 21st century. You don’t have to be on either side.
The Slobbering Beast of Power
Beneath the uniforms, costumes of power or the suits of fashionable exuberance lurks naked flesh. Often flabby and unimpressive. The victims of such know the putrid stench on their breath, the sickly odour of sweat, the repulsive effluent of discharge as it penetrates...
Stop Funding the NGO: No Grift Overlooked
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels. The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul. The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and...
Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration
"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Increases Wealth" "Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate" "More on Immigration and Public Property" "Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law"...
Alex Wins Again
I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill...
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