The British Guardian posted a report on April 13 claiming that its sources now admit that the British spy agency GCHQ was digitally wiretapping Trump associates going back to late 2015. This was presumably when the December 2015 Moscow meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn took place. This runs contrary […]
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Microsoft Transparency Report Shows Massive Increase in 2016 Obama Era FISA Orders…
Microsoft tries to thread the needle of transparency by telling its consuming audience as much about governmental collection of data as possible. Toward that end Microsoft releases a biannual transparency report. Within the latest transparency release Microsoft reports in the first half of 2016 they received a massive increase in FISA orders; primarily from U.S. […]
Facebook Discovers ‘Major Spam Operation,’ USA Today Likes Plummet…
Facebook announced Friday that the company has discovered and dismantled a network of fake accounts that have been rising on the site over the last six months. The result of that purge has caused tremendous damage to one news outlet’s Facebook page in particular — USA Today. In its statement, Facebook announced that the latest […]
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Report: School-Issued Computers ‘Spy’ on Children Without Parental Consent…
A new report finds that, under the guise of “personalized learning,” school-issued computer devices — now distributed to one-third of K-12 students in schools across the United States — are serving to collect and store an unprecedented amount of personal data on children without their parents’ notice or consent. A newly released investigation by Electronic […]
What Russia-gate Has Wrought by Robert Parry…
Democrats, liberals and some progressives might be feeling a little perplexed over what has happened to Russia-gate, the story that pounded Donald Trump every day since his election last November – until April 4, that is. On April 4, Trump fully capitulated to the neoconservative bash-Russia narrative amid dubious claims about a chemical attack in […]
Update on YouTube’s New Assault On Free Speech! (VIDEO)…
YouTube continues to indirectly censor alternative voices under the guise of being ‘advertiser-friendly’, damaging the livelihoods of content creators who work tirelessly to combat the false narratives being put forward by the mainstream media. For a long time, YouTube’s platform allowed the full spectrum of views and perspectives to exist, but with the new changes, […]
Think You Know the Top Web Browsers?…
Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE/Edge, Opera… It is a common idea that these are the five “major browsers”. Our familiarity with them is comforting, but it might be a skewed and outdated view. Partly from our Western bubble and partly a hangover from the days of desktop dominance. Let’s take a look at some numbers so […]
Google Takes Out Major Contract to De-List Infowars from Its Search Index…
Google has hired contractors to remove or limit Alex Jones’ website Infowars.com from its search engines. According to a search engine evaluator for Google, all contractors have been instrucred to actively rate InfoWars as a low quality and untrusted site. This email was sent out to all contractors…
Meet Babel Street, the Powerful Social Media Surveillance Used by Police, Secret Service, and Sports Stadiums…
Newly released records from the Seattle Police Dept. illustrate the formidable capabilities of Babel Street’s software and offers a look into who is using it. After Geofeedia’s highly publicized PR disaster, in which Chicago Police were found to have used the social media surveillance platform to track racial justice protests and gatherings, the social media […]
The New Shadow Brokers Leak Connects the NSA to the Stuxnet Cyber Weapon Used on Iran…
Researchers have found an hidden gem inside the treasure trove of the new alleged NSA hacking tools dumped by the Shadow Brokers. The mysterious hacking group known as Shadow Brokers came back on Friday to drop its most explosive—and damaging—dump yet, a collection of alleged hacking tools for Microsoft Windows computers. Buried among this new […]
Major Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System…
For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data. Now, just when it seemed like that trove of secrets might be exhausted, the group has spilled a new batch. The latest dump appears to show that the NSA has penetrated deep into the […]
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#Vault 7: The CIA’s HIVE Project…
HIVE is a back-end infrastructure malware with a public-facing HTTPS interface which is used by CIA implants to transfer exfiltrated information from target machines to the CIA and to receive commands from its operators to execute specific tasks on the targets. HIVE is used across multiple malware implants and CIA operations. The public HTTPS interface […]
Breathtaking Space Film on Cassini’s Final Months Exploring Saturn…
To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini’s remarkable story, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film “Wanderers,” to create a stirring finale video befitting…
Trump’s CIA Director Pompeo, WikiLeaks, Explicitly Threatens Speech & Press Freedoms…
In February, after Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. media were the “enemy of the people,” the targets of his insult exploded with indignation, devoting wall-to-wall media coverage to what they depicted as a grave assault on press freedoms more befitting of a tyranny. By stark and disturbing contrast, the media reaction yesterday was far […]
CIA Chief Knocks Assange, But Deems WikiLeaks a ‘non-state intelligence agency’ (VIDEO)…
CIA Director Mike Pompeo tore into Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website Wikileaks, while simultaneously calling the project aimed at government transparency one of a few “non-state intelligence agencies.” Without specifying what other agencies the director was referring to, Pompeo made it clear that he regards Assange as dangerous to the US as any […]
Assange Responds to CIA Director That “Produced al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iraq, Iran & Pinochet”…
After being blasted by new CIA Director Mike Pompeo yesterday as a “hostile non-state intelligence service,” Julian Assange has decided to respond by trolling the CIA, the “state non-intelligence agency,” over its own roles in producing “al-Qaeda, ISIS, Iraq, Iran and Pinochet”…
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Whaddayaknow: British Spies Were First to Eavesdrop on Trump’s Transition Team After All…
Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told. GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close…
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NASA: Ingredients for Life at Saturn’s Moon Enceladus…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft discovered hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy particles spraying from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The discovery means the small, icy moon — which has a global ocean under its surface — has a source of chemical energy that could be useful for microbes, if any exist there. The finding also provides […]
Obama Justice Department Obtained Secret Order to Monitor Trump Campaign Adviser in June 2016…
The secret order allowed the government under the Obama administration to monitor the communications of the adviser, Carter Page, as part of an investigation into potential links between Russia and the Trump administration. Trump tweeted on March 4 that he had his “wires tapped in Trump Tower” during the campaign, for which critics bashed Trump, […]
Big Internet Firms to Oppose GOP Plans to Roll Back Net-Neutrality Rules…
The Internet Association, a trade group that includes companies such as of Netflix Inc. and Facebook Inc., told Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai in a meeting that it “continues its vigorous support of the FCC’s [net-neutrality] order,” the group said in a regulatory filing. It added that the net-neutrality rules are “a vital component […]
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