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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Parallax Views Podcast: The Government Murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
J. G. Michael invited me on his podcast to talk about the U.S. immigration agents' recent murders of two American citizens in Minneapolis.
They Warned Us
It’s hard to enjoy the writings of Franz Kafka, though in some of his story telling we find a reflection of the contemporary or perhaps a dirty glass panel into the past. In his book, The Trial, we experience a bureaucracy of inhumanity through the eyes of an unnamed...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Is Pam Bondi Miriam Adelson’s Tool to Censor Americans?
A letter about the Nobel Peace Prize. A claim that America needs “complete and total control of Greenland.” And a war that almost started, then didn’t. We follow the thread from ego-driven spectacle to real-world consequences, unpacking how image-making can bend...
Lose/Lose Situation
I discuss Minneapolis ICE situation and we finish up the last of 3 presidential debates from 1992
The Story Can Still Be Told
“Don’t be mean, we don’t have to be mean, coz remember, no matter where you go, there you are,” said Buckaroo Banzai as he stood on stage with his band of as multi-faceted men. The Hong Kong Cavaliers. Buckaroo, the scientist, surgeon, rock star, comic book character...
The Navy May Have a Use for the Haunted Zumwalt
The DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class, originally slated for 30+ hulls but only commissioning three has been haunted by failure and late delivery on everything. Now the first hull is being delivered after being retrofitting for Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic...
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