US Navy will Konsolenspieler ausspähen


Die US Armee hat ein Projekt in Auftrag gegeben, das sich mit dem Auslesen von gebrauchten Konsolen beschäftigt. So will man auch nachträglich Chatlogs und persönliche Daten aus verdächtigen Geräten extrahieren können.

Nach dem erfolgreichen Videospiel Americas Army sucht das US Militär nun offenbar nach neuen Verwertungsmöglichkeiten für Konsolen. Die US Navy gab ein Projekt in Auftrag, das sich mit dem Sammeln von Informationen auf gebrauchten Videospielkonsolen beschäftigt. Dazu zählen neben Chatlogs auch Benutzerinformationen und andere gespeicherte Daten, die nachträglich extrahiert werden sollen.

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Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for ‘emo’ haircuts: activists


Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts.

Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police in the country in the past month. The violent crackdown against “emo” Iraqi teenagers came after the Iraqi interior ministry declared them as “devil worshippers.”

alarabiya.net At least 90 Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for “emo” haircuts

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Trillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter Cleared for Flight Training


The Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is finally cleared to begin introductory flights at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida — four months late.

The belated “Military Flight Release” is a big step forward for the stealthy JSF, which is slated to replace almost all of the Pentagon’s tactical jets over the next 30 years but has been plagued by design problems, safety concerns, delays and cost increases.

wired.com

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DOD spending $500B on 6 preparations for cyber war


Cyber war is more than a threat, it is something the Department of Defense is spending money on as we speak. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter outlined six ways the DOD is taking action today, as well as legislation he believes can help the government act quickly against hackers at home and abroad.

“Cyber will overtake terrorism as the persistent gnawing … kind of threat and danger,” said Carter at the RSA Conference in San Francisco today. “The market, both economic and political, undervalues security at the moment. Doesn’t see it. Doesn’t fully get it. This is wrong, this is a mistake.”

venturebeat.com

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Israel has destroyed Iran nuclear infrastructure


Israel has destroyed all Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground, a November email from the US intelligence firm Stratfor released by Wikileaks on Monday claims, citing a "confirmed Israeli intelligence agent."

The email is one of five million the whistleblowing website plans to publish from the US-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails appear to contain a large amount of speculation and hearsay.

jpost.com

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Syria regime tanks reportedly enter Homs


Activists say Syrian forces have resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in Homs a day after attacks on the area killed dozens of people including two Western journalists, and have driven tanks into one neighborhood in what could be the beginning of an expected ground siege.

"Tanks have entered the Jobar area in the south of Baba Amr," said activist Abu Imad, according to the Reuters news agency, which said he contacted them from inside the beseiged city.

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Computer spyware is newest weapon in Syrian conflict


In Syria's cyberwar, the regime's supporters have deployed a new weapon against opposition activists -- computer viruses that spy on them, according to an IT specialist from a Syrian opposition group and a former international aid worker whose computer was infected.

A U.S.-based antivirus software maker, which analyzed one of the viruses at CNN's request, said that it was recently written for a specific cyberespionage campaign and that it passes information it robs from computers to a server at a government-owned telecommunications company in Syria.

cnn.com

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Iran to unveil 'great nuclear achievements'


Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says "great" nuclear achievements will be announced in the next few days.

He did not give any details, but insisted that Iran would never halt its programme to enrich uranium, which can be used to make a nuclear warhead.

thefinancialexpress-bd.com guardian.co.uk .theatlanticwire.com rian.ru

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Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case


The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005's Haditha Killings trial. Anon doesn't think the Marine in charge should have gotten off so lightly. This is their payback.

Seven years ago, (then Sergeant) Frank Wuterich and several other marines he commanded killed 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha, Iraq, in an apparent act of revenge for an unrelated IED strike. Despite admitting to the killings, Wuterich just last week officially got off with only a charge of "negligent dereliction of duty." No jail time, no serious conviction whatsoever.

washingtonpost.com gizmodo.com screencap of the original defacement and manifesto here

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NATO to Acquire First Fleet of Unarmed Drones


The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed Friday to acquire its first fleet of unarmed drones under a long-sought deal that defense officials said would help fill a gap in alliance surveillance capabilities exposed by last year's military campaign in Libya.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the agreement, reached at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, calls for a group of 13 nations to acquire five Global Hawk reconnaissance drones, which are produced by Northrop Grumman.

The 13 countries participating in the project are Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the U.S.

Global Hawks

wsj.com reuters.com Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

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The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare


American fighter jets screamed over the Iraqi countryside heading for the MQ-1 Predator drone, while its crew in California stood by helplessly. What had begun as an ordinary reconnaissance mission was now taking a ruinous turn. In an instant, the jets attacked and then it was all over. The Predator, one of the Air Force’s workhorse hunter/killer robots, had been obliterated.

guernicamag.com

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