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  • Devastating Diebold Hack Proven in Florida
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: A hack like this could have easily swung Florida, and the 2004 election.
    Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed (…)

  • Web, mobiles help French plan riots
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Young French rioters are using blogs to incite violence and mobile phones to organise attacks in guerrilla-like tactics they have copied from anti-globalisation protesters, security experts say.
    So the government is policing cyberspace as well as rundown suburbs in the battle to end two weeks of rioting.
    Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has diverted resources to monitoring blogs to anticipate the movements of the protesters, who have set fire to thousands of cars since the unrest (…)

  • GCHQ - Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency
    8 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    GCHQ- Government Communications HeadQuarters Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency
    by Steve Jones
    GCHQ- Government Communications Headquarters- is the United Kingdom’s (and the European Union’s) counterpart to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.
    Commonly referred to as, "her Majesty’s doughnut", GCHQ is Europe’s most powerful intelligence gathering agency. Located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, the massive 176 acre centre, 1.1 million (…)

  • Our Employers, Ourselves
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Eric Hellweg
    IBM once set one of its Linux commercials on a basketball court. But other than that, the worlds of Big Blue and professional basketball have rarely crossed lanes. This month, though, they were linked by what promises to become one of the most volatile workplace issues of the next decade: genetic testing.
    After it was revealed that Chicago Bulls star center Eddie Curry had a heart arrhythmia, the Bulls said he’d have to take a DNA test before the organization would tender (…)

  • EXCLUSIVE REPORT: THE DEMISE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Neo-Cons’ Unfettered Access to America’s Secrets
    By Wayne Madsen
    During the Cold War, if the United States suffered a massive compromise of its own cryptographic security and, at the same, time experienced a thorough penetration of its communications intelligence yielding the sensitive sources and methods whereby the U.S. intelligence community tapped and decrypted the communications of its adversaries, the Soviet Union would have been able to dictate surrender terms for America and (…)

  • Our new Supreme Ct Nominee: His wife is big in satellite systems; her company is targeting Iraq
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yet another first for our boundary-breaching White House: for the first time in American history, we’re going to have a justice on the high court whose spouse facilitates financing and putting together global satellite systems.
    Also, the company in which she is a partner, Shaw Pittman, emphasizes among other things its expertise in facilitating business in Iraq:
    “We offer one-stop service to clients pursuing projects in Iraq, from solicitation and RFP counseling to working with key (…)

  • Is Your Printer Spying On You?
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is Your Printer Spying On You? Posted by Donna Wentworth July 24, 2005 Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer — and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias," right?
    Unfortunately, the scenario isn’t fictional. In an effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page (…)

  • Racists launch PC game
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While anti-gaming critics are busy worrying about a mod that sees two fictional characters engaging in consensual sex, a neo-Nazi organisation has released a game designed to promote racial divisions and encourage violent acts against members of ethnic minorities.
    The PC first-person shooter is titled Ethnic Cleansing and is published by Resistance Records, which also distributes racist ’White Power’ music. Resistance Records is owned by the National Alliance, the biggest and most active (…)

  • London : government wants email and phone data kept for intelligence
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three days after the London bombings, Britain said on Sunday it would seek new EU rules to make telecoms companies store records for much longer showing who their customers are calling and emailing.
    Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he would raise the issue on Wednesday at a meeting of European Union interior ministers which he has called in Brussels to discuss a joint response to the bombings by suspected Islamist militants.
    "We believe that telecommunications records, whether of (…)

  • Bush’s Approval Rating In The Toilet. So how did he get re-elected?Diebold admits machines hackable
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Bush’s Approval Rating In The Toilet. So how did he get re-elected.???"
    New poll data was released yesterday that puts The Illegal Deserting, Idiots, Approval rating even lower then than it already was. If that’s even possible, in a land where the Corporate Media, would kill their own mothers to stop a negative story about the criminal that each and every one of them are responsible for putting in office. Every member of the Media, be it TV Newspapers, or radio, (Air America excepted) (…)