For those of you that thought this wasn’t about energy… so basically, Russian special forces — by the way, if you think special forces = rapelling off helicopters, you’re WRONG, they’re much more about being subtle in civilian environments — anyway, so Russian special forces basically recruited a bunch of pro-Russian residents of Crimea to […]

Privacy fans were right to worry about the new Xbox’s camera. It turns out GCHQ has been harvesting all the webcam streams it can get its mitts on and feeding the result into face recognition databases. In this case, the documents talk about snarfing down Yahoo webcams and a “wider program” to exploit Xbox Kinect […]

Because “the Internet of Things” is a terrible, awful idea, researchers managed to develop a WiFi virus that replaces access point firmware with a full-functional-and-more copy. It’s unclear how it handles different access point models and manufacturers — it may be a research proof-of-concept with little “details” like that hand-waved away with “well it could […]

First of all, this is just awesome — Ukrainians following in the “Documents from the US Espionage Den” tradition. Would-be revolutionaries take note, remember to set up a leaks page for your revolution! http://yanukovychleaks.org/ Right, so Reddit may not *actually* be run by the NSA, but the site has a sordid history of active censorship […]

I’ve pointed out this kind of thing a few times in the past — all intelligence agencies both gather information and exert influence. (It’s almost as it it was a Schrödinger situation.) Now Glenn Greenwald has opened up with both barrels and pointed out what he’s been slowly been building up to — that the […]

Dig into the Internet cesspit of MKULTRA conspiracy theory, and within a few minutes you’ll hear about Project MONARCH[1]. This is a salacious, dramatic story of the CIA and Hollywood torturing people in order to split their personalities, in order to create assassins and sex kittens for movie executives. The idea here being, saying the […]

Can you apply human-security thinking to digital forensics… and determine whether that critical security flaw was a bug or a malicious bug-door? Nadim “Cats in Ur Crypto” Kobessi has an interesting take on the Apple SSL bug. The bug in question was a single, duplicated line of code with serious implications — anyone could execute […]

First of all, from the “All those in favor of gun control, raise your right hand, palm down” department — “[The special police] stopped because we had several pieces of firearms, Lutsenko said. I personally heard the communications of interior troops officers, who when ordered to attack would respond in Russian (with an expletive). When […]

Ukraine stuff… um, not sure what they’re smoking if they think a peace deal will hold without Yanukovych’s resignation. “No More Yanukovych” is the ONLY demand every single demonstrator agreed on! Also, more signals intelligence for the people… protesters intercepted the radio transmissions of the police snipers that killed a good 70-100 people yesterday, posted […]

One more… this explains a lot, too. I disagree with the impossibility of a peaceful solution, but it should give you an idea of the interests at work. Remember the Chevron logo behind Victoria Nuland in the video the other day? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-20/ukraine-situation-explained-one-map