#DataDump: Balconies, Breaches, Biggest Builds and more

Julian Assange takes aim at US as diplomatic row deepens;
Speech from balcony calls on Obama to abandon witchhunt*

Assange Calls on U.S. to End ‘Witchhunt’ Against WikiLeaks*
Did Bush’s Broadband Deregulation Upend His Own NSA Wiretapping?*
AT&T Claims Charging More for FaceTime is No Net-Neutrality Breach*
Feds Expand Domain Seizures to Mobile App Pirate Sites*
Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth*

#DataDump: Infiltration, Asylum, Aircraft and more

Facebook‬ To Buy ‪Israeli‬ ‪Biometrics‬ Startup ‪Face‬.com For $100 Million*
Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking*
Researcher: CIA, NSA may have infiltrated Microsoft to write malware*
Apple fined more than $2m over 4G claim*
US Demands for Google User Data Grow, But Full Picture Remains Murky*
House Committee Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers*
NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say If We Spied on You*
Open Letter to Internet Companies:
Tell Us How Much We are Being Surveilled*
Do You Know Where Your Database Is?*
Report: US and Israel Behind Flame Espionage Tool*
Assange Seeks Political Asylum from Ecuador*
Assange Breached Bail in Seeking Asylum, British Police Say*
Acting Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA):
Who Is Kaigham Gabriel?*
The Most Immediate Threats to Global Energy Security*
China‬ sends first female astronaut to space*
UFO Sighting In Maryland? No, a Military Aircraft*
Summer Solstice and 8 Modern Celebrations of the Sun*
Video: Summer Solstice - The Heat Is On*

#DataDump: Megagovernment, Microbes and more

Wyden Protects Privacy, Blocks FISA Surveillance Law*
Sen. Detours Obama Drive to Retain Controversial Wiretap Powers*
Assange to Be Extradited to Sweden, Court Refuses Final Appeal*
Feds Tell Megaupload Users to Forget About Their Data*
Ret. Judge Against Outrageous Seizures in Megaupload Case*
Microbes Capable Of Surviving On Mars Found*

#DataDump: Bomb Threat, Facebank, Fake Parts and more

Bomb Threat at NSA's Massive Top-Secret Data Center Halts Construction*

Video: Bomb Threat Investigated at New NSA Facility in Utah*
'Men In Black' Inspired By Scary Stories Of People Who've Seen UFOs*
NSA Teams With Colleges to Train Students for Secret Cyber-Ops Jobs*
Senate: US Weapons Systems Contaminated with Fake Parts from China*
Space veterans announce Liberty rocket, target 2015 launch*
Shareholders sue 'Facebank' over info concealed ahead of IPO*
Video: Facebook faces legal action over IPO debacle*
Europe's antitrust chief urges Google to settle allegations*
Supreme Court Upholds $675,000 File Sharing Verdict*
New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech*
Supreme Court to Rule on Assange Extradition Appeal*
Pot Prosecution Up in Smoke Due to Warrantless GPS Tracking*
Digital Rights Groups Defend Tiny Antenna-Based Internet TV Service*
#Audio #Satire: Computer Hacker Denied Access To Social Life*

Is Anonymous Controlled Opposition?

A rumor storms cyberspace hacker group Anonymous threatens to crash internet! Nibletz.com covers story with suggested target date of March 31st. Anonymous wants "to protest SOPA [Stop Online Piracy Act], Wall Street, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, On March 31, anonymous will shut the Internet down...We’ll look to shut down the Internet by disabling its core DNS servers, thus making websites inaccessible," so goes story. Is Anonymous another attempt at fielding a controlled opposition? Infowars.com chimes in with recent article on their website, "Assange and Anonymous As Elite Helpers?" The article exposes likely goal, "more ominously, even, it will feed into the elite meme that the Internet is a dangerous and unpredictable place, one that needs to be rigorously controlled and scrutinized. Anonymous, within this context, has just reaffirmed its place as a great argument for SOPA and increased Internet censorship generally. Coincidence?" It's like a bad high school play, where the ending is transparent to anyone paying attention! Internet may well be taken down at some point and most likely by desktop warriors in DC area. Stop Online Privacy Act will be strengthened. Online dissidents will be routed out. A controlled TV-like internet II debuts with less access at greater cost? Hey, it takes lots of money to protect (control) you! It may well be the script?

bradley manning case: investigators show evidence of wikileaks link

video: manning/assange link found?

from washington post: Prosecutors presented new evidence Monday that appears to link Pfc. Bradley Manning to a massive leak of government material to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, including the existence of computer chat logs between Manning and WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange discussing the exchange of government information. At a pretrial hearing, which is scheduled to continue in a military courtroom at Fort Meade this week, a government witness on Monday described a memory card he said belonged to Manning and contained nearly 500,000 field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan.

wikileaks halts publication over cash flow issues

from threat level: For the second time in two years WikiLeaks announced it was suspending publication of secret documents due to financial difficulties.

The site has already failed to make good on months-old claims that it has a cache of new secrets to unleash, including internal documents from Bank of America, and the new announcement would postpone their publication even longer. WikiLeaks announced on Monday that it was halting publication because it was running out of cash and needed to focus on fundraising.

At the same time, the site announced that it planned to launch a new submission system on Nov. 28, a year after it began publishing a cache of more than 250,000 U.S. State Department cables. The site didn’t say how it planned to publish new submissions if it was experiencing financial problems.

”In order to reclaim the organization’s future survival, WikiLeaks is now forced to temporarily suspend its operations and move into a phase of fund-raising,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement.

The announcement comes just days after Assange told an audience that his organization had sustained itself over the last 11 months solely on cash it had already raised from donations.

9/29 defcon: cookies, retention & a heavenly palace

facebook tracks you even after logging out*

australian tech expert discovers faCIAbook cookies*
facebook to form its own political action committee*
after outcry, onstar backing down on vehicle data collection*
'retention periods of major cellular service providers':
secret memo reveals verizon stores your data the longest*
state dept employee faces firing for posting wikileaks link*
manning & assange nominated for nobel peace prize*
video: anonymous hacktivists go hip-hop*
video: ice official who 'fights' child porn arrested for it*
sun unleashes two massive x-class solar flares*
earth in cross-hairs of huge solar storm caused by sunspot 1302?*
'heavenly palace 1': china set to launch its own space station; mission: unknown*

as smartphone scandal grows, tech firms run for cover

while they reap windfall profits...
from antifascist calling: Recent revelations that Apple's iPhone and iPad, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating systems collect, store and transmit records of users' physical locations to central databases--secretly, and without consent--have ignited a firestorm over Americans' privacy rights in an age of hypersurveillance.

And with a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Florida by two iPhone users, The Register reports, Apple guru Steve Jobs was forced to respond to complaints after the firm's usual tactic--deafening silence--failed to assuage customer's anxieties.

The lawsuit alleges that "irreparable injury has resulted and continues to result from Apple's unauthorized tracking of millions of Americans," plaintiffs Vikram Ajjampur and William Devito averred. They are requesting their case be granted class-action status, a move likely to send shudders along the silicon spine of the secretive Cupertino high-tech powerhouse.

In response to the outcry, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple "is scaling back how much information its iPhones store about where they have been and said it will stop collecting such data when consumers request it, as the company tries to quell concerns it was tracking iPhone owners."

But as journalists Yukari Iwatani Kane and Jennifer Valentino-Devries point out, "a week of silence on the growing controversy, raised new questions and criticism about its data-handling practices."

related video: assange calls facebook 'most appalling spy machine' ever

assange: internet greatest spying machine

Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warned Cambridge students, who waited hours to hear him speak, internet is "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen," in article at guardian.co.uk. Assange continued, "It [the web] is not a technology that favours freedom of speech. It is not a technology that favours human rights. It is not a technology that favours civil life. Rather it is a technology that can be used to set up a totalitarian spying regime, the likes of which we have never seen. Or, on the other hand, taken by us, taken by activists, and taken by all those who want a different trajectory for the technological world, it can be something we all hope for." Has Assange been directed to convince Anglo-American elite the internet represents a threat? The present writer views Assange as an agent for the global elite and enjoys a relationship with Israel as related in a previous post here.

Assange also responded to an inquiry about Bradley Manning, "we have no idea whether he is one of our sources. All our technology is geared up to make sure we have no idea...there is no allegation that he was arrested as the result of anything to do with us. The allegation is that he was arrested as a result of him speaking to Wired magazine in the United States."

Is Assange's message shutdown the internet to stop "totalitarian spying regime"? Is there a war on technology? It seems, both, the web and nuclear power are under attack. The global elite do not fancy technology as it represents a challenge to their control and domination!

related defcon updates:
nasa to use lasers to shoot space junk around earth*
nytimes again seeks to charge for web news*
'homefront': new video game features nkorean invasion of US*

2/17 defcon: cyber-coup, backdoor & track more

cyber-attack hits canadian government computers*
report: egypt shut down net with big switch, not phone calls*
voice of america uses social media to aid foreign dissent*
surveillance footage & code clues indicate stuxnet hit iran*
cia head panetta warns of possible cyber-pearl harbor*
lynn urges partnership against cyber threat*
dod talks up plans to deploy cybercommandos 3.0*
video: hillary announces expanded US cyber-coup campaign*
US intelligence officials concerned about cyber attack*
'kill switch' internet bill alarms privacy experts*
cyberwar issues likely to be addressed only after a catastrophe*
fema loses official lesson reports on katrina, floods, fires*
feds seize 18 more domains in piracy crackdown*
fbi to announce significant new wiretap push:
backdoors galore in everything from skype to bittorrent*
online 'do not track' bill introduced in congress*
internet searches beginning to be used as evidence in trials*
obama/holder case against assange dribbles away*
jobs, schmidt & zuckerberg meet with obama in san francisco*
reminder: facebook & google are cia fronts*

2/3 defcon: killswitch, bandwidth, floodgates

as egypt returns to the internet: lieberman says US internet killswitch bill is different than egypt's internet killswitch*
US tests system that beats internet censorship by dictatorships*
certified lies: detecting & defeating govt interception attacks against ssl*
vodafone volluded with egyptian regime's information warfare psyop*
metered bandwidth isn't about stopping bandwidth hogs; it's about preserving old media business models*
US p2p traffic lower than world average*
US cyber challenge partners with lockmart & microsoft*
US recruiting young cyber warriors*
docs in assange rape investigation leak onto web*
video: assange's boring 60 minutes interview*
no, hackers can't open hoover dam floodgates*
nasa spots 54 life-friendly planets*
video: ufo hovers over jerusalem*

1/27 defcon: congress, connections & 'the company'

s3480: 'protecting cyberspace as a national asset act of 2010' - bill to give president right to shutdown net back in congress*
doj seeks to have all web surfing tracked*
mozilla proposes 'do not track' addition to firefox*
google comes under fire for 'secret' relationship with nsa*
apple hires a military grade security chief*
zuckerberg's facebook page hacked*
social networks under attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US; they don't connect people – they isolate them*
report: US can't link manning to assange*
police arrest five over 'anonymous' wikileaks attacks*
video: tarpley on wikileaks & assange -
limited hangouts in the service of 'the company'?*

update: internet down in egypt ahead of protests*

1/13 defcon: crimestop, doublethink, disconnect

child porn probe leads to fbi headquarters*
ex-tsa worker gets 2yrs for planting 'logic bomb' malware in colorado springs screening system*
US subpoenas twitter for wikileaks info*
how secret were the wikileaks state dept. cables?*
wikileaks contributes $15k to bradley manning's defense*
assange claims 504 'insurance files' on news corp.*
algorithms take control of wall street*
cyberdyne is real & making thought-controlled exoskeletons*
video: 'stop. think. connect.' - dhs announces new fear agenda of 'crimestop. doublethink. disconnect.'*

1/6 defcon: bad calls & fake claims

warrantless cell phone search gets green light in california*
voip decision means skype now illegal*
first solar eclipse of the year jan4*
quadrantid meteor shower due jan4 night*
reporter behind wmd claims calls assange 'bad journalist'*
fake white house holiday email is cyber attack*

wikileaks: a big dangerous US government con job

William Engdahl provides, perhaps, the best summation of America's plight in a recent article and podcast. In last month's article, "Wikileaks--a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job," Engdahl's observations are chillingly apt. Wikileaks is too well-scripted to be true. Bradley Manning, the alleged leaker, had impossible access and his leaked material's content is not "top secret". Manning is, now, incarcerated and incommunicado - all too convenient. Once, the 250,000 leaked pages reached Julian Assange and Wikileaks, "Assange decides to selectively choose several of the world’s most ultra-establishment news media to exclusively handle the leaking job for him...The New York Times even assigned one of its top people, David E. Sanger to control the release of the Wikileaks material... sits as a member of the elite Council on Foreign Relations as well as the Aspen Institute Strategy Group..." observes Engdahl.

The clear conclusion of the article is, "but for anyone who has studied the craft of intelligence and of disinformation, a clear pattern emerges in the Wikileaks drama. The focus is put on selected US geopolitical targets...".  F William Engdahl sees right through the entire operation. "The Wikileaks is a big and dangerous US intelligence Con Job which will likely be used to police the Internet." You may catch today's Deadline Live interview of Engdahl here, which makes a great audio companion to the article!

12/31 defcon: high chance, top threats & the cloud

top cyber threats of 2011*
living with our heads in 'the cloud'*
paul allen tries patent megasuit again*
apple sued for app privacy violations*
man quits job to sue spammers*
with 15 minutes of fame ticking; assange signs $1.5m-worth of book deals*
smith, assange, soros & claims that assange is helping the neocons*
assange: 'high chance' i'd be killed 'jack ruby-style’ in US prison*
video: 'reality of illusion 4: julian assange, the white brotherhood & the nazis'*

busted! wikileaks struck a deal with israel over cable leaks

Gordon Duff, at Veteran's Today, reveals why there were no damaging leaks concerning Israel!  Duff explains in article, "Busted! Wikileaks Struck a Deal With Israel Over Cable Leaks", “Assange met with Israeli officials in Geneva earlier this year and struck the secret deal." The sources added the documents, which originated mainly in embassies in Tel Aviv and Beirut, were removed. The only person with password to open the documents, is [Julian] Assange. "Assange had allegedly struck a deal with Israel before the recent ‘cable gate’, which may explain why the leaks “were good for Israel,” as the Israeli prime minister put it."

Other statements seem revealing, "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a press conference that Israel had 'worked in advance' to limit any damage from leaks, adding that “no classified Israeli material was exposed by WikiLeaks. In an interview with the Time magazine around the same time, Assange praised Netanyahu as a hero of transparency and openness!" 

Cynics will only find more ammunition by reading following report, "according to an Arabic investigative journalism website, Assange had received money from semi-official Israeli sources and promised them, in a 'secret, video-recorded agreement,' not to publish any document that may harm Israeli security or diplomatic interests." Suspicions have simmered since the the cablegate document dump and this report only seems to confirm them!

tarpley's take on wikileaks

Webster Tarpley reveals the self-exposure operation of Wikileaks on the Alex Jones Show recently. Julian Assange is a MK-Ultra zombie, the product of an Australian mind control cult led by Anne Hamilton-Byrne, in Tarpley's view. Assange's peroxide blonde hair color is noted as significant, as the Australian cult members' hair was dyed peroxide blonde or platinum, and reveals his cult ties. Assange is compared to Daniel Ellsberg and may be an expendible intelligence asset? Tarpley summarizes the Wikileaks document dumps, observing there are no damaging references to a George W. Bush or Richard Cheney and concludes they are most damaging to the CIA's enemies. Please take a moment to listen how Julian Assange and Wikileaks may be controlled intelligence assets and the present operation bears similarities to the Pentagon Papers of the early seventies. Tarpley believes Wikileaks is the product of White House information czar, Cass Sunstein. Sunstein pledged government infiltration of extremist groups, some time ago, and wrote the following paper: "Conspiracy Theories". It's must listen and available, here.

wikileaks is not a psy op?

Anok Black, in a blog entry at www.seismologik.com, offers the reader four reasons why Wikileaks is not a tool of the agenda. Black lists them: 1) it would be irrational and damaging for US government to use Wikileaks to build support for war, 2) it would be ineffective since patrons of Wikileaks already have anti-establishment views, 3) Julian Assange is anti-authoritarian not a CIA asset with supporting links to Assange's personal essays and an archive of Assange's blog, and 4) Wikileaks is not Julian Assange. Non-sequiturs flow from each of the four points. This is from someone who is, ostensibly, finishing a PHD in analytic philosophy!

Readers should ask why defend Wikileaks, because it's exposing injustice worldwide? It doesn't make sense for US government to use a platform such as Wikileaks? The conclusions do not follow from the arguments for each of the above reasons. Wikileaks history is suspicious at best. Where does the money for this project come from and how does Assange pay for his world travels? The only response to Black's blog entry may be the biggest knock against Wikileaks, Julian Assange aside, "...what seems missing from the leaks tells a stronger tale".