Topic: SECURITY - on September 2, 2013 at 1:58:00 PM CEST
Stork detained in Egypt on suspicion of spying
The bird was put behind bars after a man fishing in the Nile in Qena, some 280 miles south-east of Cairo, spotted an electronic device attached to its feathers.
Thinking it was an undercover agent, he captured the stork and took it to a police station near his home, said Mohammed Kamal, head of security in the Qena region.
Puzzled officers examined the bird, fearing the gadget was a bomb or spying equipment, and then called in veterinary experts.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 2, 2013 at 1:57:00 PM CEST
Snowden-Dokumente: Extremisten wollten US-Geheimdienste unterwandern
Wer sich bei der CIA bewirbt, wird durchleuchtet. Bei diesen Hintergrundchecks tauchen laut "Washington Post" immer wieder Verbindungen zu Terroristen und feindlichen Geheimdiensten auf. Wie Papiere des Whistleblowers Snowden belegen, hat jeder fünfte suspekte Bewerber solche Kontakte.
Washington - Nur zu gern wüssten Terrorgruppen und feindliche Geheimdienste, was in den US-Spionagezentralen vor sich geht. Dazu versuchen diese offenbar regelmäßig, eigene Leute bei CIA, NSA und Co. einzuschleusen. Die "Washington Post" liefert nun eine grobe Einschätzung der Dimension dieser Infiltrierungsversuche.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2013 at 1:56:00 PM CEST
Britain named the European capital of drug addiction
This country is now the “addictions capital of Europe”, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), the think tank established by Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary.
The abuse of drugs and alcohol costs the nation a total of £36 billion annually with an “epidemic of drink-related conditions” and an emerging problem from other substances which are currently technically legal.
Christian Guy, the director of the CSJ, said: “While our addiction problem damages the economy, it is the human consequences that present the real tragedy.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2013 at 1:54:00 PM CEST
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 2, 2013 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
"Hemisphere Project": US-Drogenbehörde nutzt größere Telefondatenbank als NSA
Die US amerikanische Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) und das Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) haben 2007 Hemisphere ins Leben gerufen. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem US amerikanischen Provider AT&T erlaubt das Programm den Mitarbeitern der DEA und anderen Behörden auf alle Verbindungsdaten von Telefongesprächen zurückzugreifen, die über AT&T Switches liefen. So zeigen Präsentationsfolien, die der New York Times durch Friedensaktivisten Drew Hendricks zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, dass AT&T seit 1987 alle Verbindungsdaten aus den eigenen Netzen vorhält und täglich etwa 4 Milliarden Datensätze dazukommen.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 2, 2013 at 1:50:00 PM CEST
We interviewed the guy who prank-called the NSA
The NSA is in dire need of customer service training — at least in the case of Bahram Sadeghi, a Dutch-Iranian filmmaker who decided to call the surveillance agency for “help” after one of his e-mails was accidentally deleted. In a three-minute exchange with NSA spokespeople, Sadeghi manages to confound one with his request (you can almost hear the relief in her voice when Sadeghi asks to speak to someone else) and gets a curt reply from another.
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Topic: PHOTO - on September 1, 2013 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013
The winners have just been announced in the 3rd edition of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest photo competition. The overall winner, top 10 category winners and top 50 finalists were unveiled at a ceremony in Hong Kong earlier today. The contest invited photographers to submit images of the world of action and adventure sports in one of 10 categories, including Energy, Illumination, Sequence, and Experimental (where digital manipulation is allowed).
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Topic: nuclear power - on September 1, 2013 at 1:57:00 PM CEST
Fukushima radiation levels 18 times higher than previously thought
Radiation levels 18 times higher than previously reported have been found near a water storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant , prompting fresh concern over safety at the wrecked facility.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said radiation near the bottom of the tank measured 1,800 millisieverts an hour – high enough to kill an exposed person in four hours.
Tepco said water levels inside the tank had not changed, indicating there had not been a leak. But the firm said it had yet to discover the cause of the radiation spike.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 1, 2013 at 1:55:00 PM CEST
Hallo NSA, können Sie meine E-Mail wiederherstellen?
Sie haben eine wichtige E-Mail unwiederbringlich gelöscht? Da könnten doch US-Geheimdienste helfen. Ein niederländischer Journalist ruft einfach die NSA-Zentrale an, bittet um ein Backup - und bekommt Tipps von erstaunlich hilfsbereiten Menschen.
Die NSA ist leicht zu erreichen: Die Telefonnummer der Zentrale für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit steht im Netz. Als der niederländische Journalist Bahram Sadeghi anruft, dabei gefilmt von seiner Freundin, nimmt in der NSA-Zentrale in Fort Meade auch gleich jemand ab.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 31, 2013 at 4:24:00 PM CEST
David Miranda was carrying password for secret files on piece of paper
In a written statement handed to the High Court in London, a senior Cabinet Office security adviser said it showed “very poor judgment” by David Miranda and other people associated with him.
Senior judges agreed to issue a court order which allows Scotland Yard to continue to examine data from nine electronic devices seized from Mr Miranda on August 18.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 31, 2013 at 4:23:00 PM CEST
UK Asked New York Times To Destroy Edward Snowden Documents; NY Times Ignored Request
There's been some back and forth concerning the David Miranda legal fight today and it's getting fairly ridiculous. The UK government is making some extraordinary claims about Miranda and the encrypted information he was carrying. They claim that some of the information was potentially incredibly damaging to UK national security interests (the same rhetoric we always hear, but is rarely shown to be true) and they also claim that they found a piece of paper on Miranda that allowed them to "decrypt one file on his seized hard drive." Furthermore, they claim that Miranda (and Greenwald and Poitras) "demonstrated very poor judgment in their security arrangements with respect to the material," in order to suggest that it might easily fall into dangerous hands.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 31, 2013 at 4:19:00 PM CEST
2-tone lobster, orange and brown, shown in Maine
Maine has seen its share of blue lobsters, orange lobsters, albino lobsters and calico lobsters. But one on display at a Portland research facility has all of those turning green with envy.
The lobster at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute is half orange and half brown.
The lobster was caught by lobsterman Jeff Edwards and was donated by Ship to Shore Lobster Co. in Owl's Head.
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