Archive for February, 2013
Kerry Announces More Support for Syrian Rebels
February 28th, 2013Here’s an excerpt from a previous post on this claim of not supplying weapons: If you want to read detailed, voluminous accounts of how the U.S. covertly and illegally provides weapons to any state or group it pleases, see, Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman […]
ViaMat to Stop Vaulting Gold Outside of the U.S. for Americans
February 28th, 2013Via: Wall Street Journal: The Swiss-based company said it will no longer offer to store gold outside of the U.S. to private clients with potential U.S. tax liability, starting from the middle of 2013. The company attributed the decision to regulatory changes without specifying exactly what regulations led to the decision. More: Privacy at Risk: […]
MIT: Eulerian Video Magnification
February 28th, 2013Update: Upload Your Own Videos http://videoscope.qrclab.com/ + September 11 Television Archive = ??? — I’d like to feed some of the 9/11 footage through this. Via: MIT News: At this summer’s Siggraph — the premier computer-graphics conference — researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present new software that amplifies variations […]
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
February 28th, 2013It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this amounts to a “nothing-to-see-here” assessment of what is happening. Consider what William Binney and Mark Klein have said and written, and what NSA is building, and then tell me if you believe that only three dozen people have access to the domestic intercepts. Come on. […]
3-D Printed Car
February 27th, 2013Via: Wired: Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles. If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions in February
February 27th, 2013Thank you very much. Pookie $75 EO $30 MW $35 SH AU$10 Eileen $75
January Earnings
February 27th, 2013Total earnings in January came to $1621.01. Thanks very much to everyone who sent funds and/or conducted business via Cryptogon’s affiliate links. We appreciate it very much. We’ve had to buy a new-for-us (used) car, so that’s a really fast way to wipe out a large chunk of savings. I wanted to get a Toyota […]
Advanced Persistent Threats Subverting Encryption Systems
February 27th, 2013The fact that the underlying systems represent weaker links than the encryption schemes has been there since the beginning. However, with states and other organizations allocating increasing resources to offensive information warfare, these weak links are increasingly being exploited to do end runs around otherwise strong encryption. Via: ThreatPost: In the current climate of continuous […]
Britain: Man Refuses to Pay for TV License Because BBC Covered Up Facts About 9/11
February 26th, 2013Via: Daily Mail: A 49-year-old man refused to pay his TV licence because he believed the BBC covered up facts about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tony Rooke, who represented himself today at Horsham Magistrates’ Court in West Sussex, said he did not want to give money to an organisation ‘funding the practice of terrorism’. Rooke, […]
Palestinian Prisoner Was Tortured Before Dying in Israeli Jail
February 26th, 2013Via: Guardian: A Palestinian prisoner whose death in Israeli custody fanned violent clashes across the West Bank over the weekend was tortured before he died, the Palestinian Authority has said. The results of an autopsy conducted in Tel Aviv were revealed at a press conference in Ramallah on Sunday evening after a day of angry […]
