Topic: POLITIK - on December 18, 2011 at 1:41:00 PM CET
Deutscher Neonazi-Terror: Geld vom Verfassungsschutz?
Die Neonazi-Terrorzelle von Zwickau, der zehn kaltblütige Morde zur Last gelegt werden, hat offenbar Geld vom deutschen Verfassungsschutz bekommen: Konkret hat die Thüringer Behörde laut einem Bericht der „Bild am Sonntag“ kurz vor der Euro-Einführung via V-Leute 2.000 Mark überwiesen - zur Beschaffung neuer Pässe. Der Plan, auf diese Weise den Aufenthaltsort der Rechtsextremisten herauszufinden, scheiterte aber kläglich. Stimmt der Bericht, ist das ein weiterer schwerer Rückschlag für den Verfassungsschutz.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 18, 2011 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Vaclav Havel ist tot
Der ehemalige tschechische Präsident Vaclav Havel ist tot. Seine Assistentin Sabina Dancecova bestätigte, Havel sei Sonntagfrüh in seinem Wochenendhaus im Schlaf gestorben. Erst vor wenigen Wochen, am 5. Oktober, hatte der einstige Dissident und Schriftsteller seinen 75. Geburtstag gefeiert.
Havel war der Protagonist schlechthin der „Samtenen Revolution“ und der erste frei gewählte Präsident nach dem Fall des kommunistischen Regimes, das der Dissident selbst als „Absurdistan“ bezeichnete. Als Präsident half er beim teils schwierigen Übergang zu Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft. Auch fiel unter seine Amtszeit die Aufspaltung der Tschechoslowakei in die Tschechische Republik und die Slowakei.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 18, 2011 at 12:31:00 PM CET
Three Russian journalists detained in Kazakhstan
Three Russian journalists covering riots in western Kazakhstan were detained without cause, Russia's Kommersant business daily said on its website on Sunday.
"The journalists were detained on Sunday by people with automatic rifles in the square of the town of Zhanaozen without the explanation of any reasons," Kommersant said.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 18, 2011 at 12:27:00 PM CET
In Kasachstan in Zentral-Asien weiten sich die Proteste aus
Die Unruhen griffen auf mehrere Städte über. Das melden örtliche Medien.
Die Zahl der Todesopfer wird mit zwölf angegeben. Demonstranten warfen der Polizei vor, sie habe auf Unbewaffnete geschossen. 70 Menschen seien getötet und mehr als 500 verletzt worden.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 18, 2011 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Police fire on rioters in Kazakhstan, 1 killed
Police opened fire on rioters in a town in the tense southwest of the Kazakhstan, leaving one person dead and 11 wounded, authorities said Sunday.
A statement from the Prosecutor General's office said the violence occurred Saturday in Shetpe, in the same region as the city of Zhanaozen where 11 people died in a clash with police on Friday.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 18, 2011 at 12:10:00 PM CET
Kazakhstan Disables the Internet
Kazakhstan's president on Saturday imposed a three-week state of emergency in an oil town where 10 people were killed in a clash between police and demonstrators. The city of Zhanaozen has had their internet and local cellphone towers disabled. They claim that they have gained control of the people by imposing a curfew. According to the associated press, internet users are unable to open several independent news sites from Zhanaozen since the disturbance began.
As of now, hactivist group telecomix has stepped in to help restore the internet to the town of Zhanaozen. Internet censorship is not an acceptable way to control people. Similar to how they helped egypt, dial up internet servers are being set up so that people in Kazakhstan will be able to communicate on dial up soon.
washingtonpost.com socialistworld.net State of emergency declared in town in western Kazakhstan after riots telecomix.org
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 18, 2011 at 12:04:00 PM CET
History of Hacking
During the 1970′s, the phone phreaks or phone hackers appeared: they learned ways to hack the telephonic system and make phone calls for free.
John Draper built a ‘blue box’ that could do this and the Esquire magazine published an article on how to build them. Fascinated by this discovery, two kids, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, decided to sell these blue boxes, starting a business friendship which resulted in the founding of Apple.
Getting their laughs and skills from hacking and cracking into primitive computers and exploiting the Arpanet (predecessor to the internet), they created a novelty that would become the target of federal crackdown in years to come.
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Topic: SECURITY - on December 18, 2011 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Army Arrested Manning Based on Unconfirmed Chat Logs
The military arrested alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning last year in Iraq based in large part on unconfirmed information that former hacker Adrian Lamo had gleaned from his chats with Manning, according to the government’s first witness in Manning’s hearing.
Special Agent Toni Graham, an investigator with the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and the first witness called on Saturday, testified that she relied on information provided by Lamo, identified in court only as a confidential informant, that a video of an Army helicopter attack that Manning allegedly gave to WikiLeaks and that WikiLeaks published in April 2010 was a classified video.
Graham said she did not verify this was true before submitting an affidavit that was the basis for ordering Manning into confinement that lasted more than a year and a half before this week’s hearing.
wired.com Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit's intelligence security chaos Army: Manning Kept a Copy of His Chatroom Confession Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed
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Topic: ROBOT - on December 18, 2011 at 8:35:00 AM CET
Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA
Last month, philosopher Patrick Lin delivered this briefing about the ethics of drones at an event hosted by In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture-capital arm. It's a thorough and unnerving survey of what it might mean for the intelligence service to deploy different kinds of robots.
Robots are replacing humans on the battlefield--but could they also be used to interrogate and torture suspects? This would avoid a serious ethical conflict between physicians' duty to do no harm, or nonmaleficence, and their questionable role in monitoring vital signs and health of the interrogated. A robot, on the other hand, wouldn't be bound by the Hippocratic oath, though its very existence creates new dilemmas of its own.
The ethics of military robots is quickly marching ahead, judging by news coverage and academic research. Yet there's little discussion about robots in the service of national intelligence and espionage, which are omnipresent activities in the background. This is surprising, because most military robots are used for surveillance and reconnaissance, and their most controversial uses are traced back to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in targeted strikes against suspected terrorists. Just this month, a CIA drone --a RQ-170 Sentinel--crash-landed intact into the hands of the Iranians, exposing the secret US spy program in the volatile region.
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