Topic: SECURITY - on March 31, 2011 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
German Green extracts tracking info from mobile operator
Mobile phones are tracking devices that reveal much about our lives. One look at our interactive map of data provided by the Green party politician Malte Spitz shows why.
The seminal electronic band Kraftwerk was well ahead of the curve musically, but even the lyrics to their 1981 song "Computerwelt" can seem uncannily prescient. "Interpol and Deutsche Bank, FBI and Scotland Yard, Flensburg and the BKA, they’ve got all our data squirreled away." What was unimaginable 30 years ago later sounded rather threatening. But today, the words are downright silly. Anzeige
While government authorities like the BKA, Germany’s Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, (and the country’s database of traffic violations in Flensburg) do indeed have a trove of information about us, the greatest source of data about our lives is much more banal. The real snitch is in our pocket – our own mobile phone betrays us. That’s why the Chaos Computer Club has rechristened the powerful mini-computers we carry around with us as "tracking devices" revealing where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 9:30:00 AM CEST
Obama schickt CIA an die Libyen-Front
Trotz der internationalen Luftangriffe werden Libyens Rebellen immer wieder von Gaddafis Soldaten zurückgeworfen - die entscheidende Hilfe könnten nun Geheimdienste liefern: Sowohl die amerikanische CIA als auch britische Agenten operieren bereits vor Ort. Schickt der Westen bald auch Waffen?
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 8:27:00 AM CEST
Libyens Außenminister flieht nach London
Der libysche Außenminister Mussa Kussa hat dem Machthaber Al-Gaddafi die Gefolgschaft gekündigt und ist nach Großbritannien geflohen. Kussa sei am Abend in Großbritannien angekommen, teilte die britische Regierung mit. Er sei geflohen, weil er gegen Angriffe auf die Zivilbevölkerung gewesen sei. Zuvor hatte es geheißen, Kussa habe sich auf der tunesischen Ferieninsel Dscherba zu einem Geheimtreffen mit französischen Regierungsbeamten eingefunden.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 8:21:00 AM CEST
Moussa Koussa, the Lockerbie spymaster who defected
Moussa Koussa, the Libyan foreign minister, last night defected from Col Muammar Gaddafi's government after flying to Britain, telling officials he was "no longer willing" to serve the regime.
Mr Koussa flew from Tunisia, where he had been on a diplomatic mission, and landed at Farnborough airport before being shuttled to London for immediate talks with high-ranking Foreign Office officials.
Mr Koussa was one of the leading figures in Col Gaddafi's government and one of the architects of Libya's recent rehabilitation in the eyes of the international community.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on March 31, 2011 at 8:20:00 AM CEST
NATO Secretary General tells Dutch TV alliance will also attack rebels that threaten civilian population. 'We're not taking sides'.
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