High-ranking members of both political parties were unaware that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal in Wisconsin, and they promised to quickly take down the posts Friday after election officials reminded voters of the law.

The law bars voters from showing their completed ballots to anyone.
The law bars voters from showing their completed ballots to anyone.
The law bars voters from showing their completed ballots to anyone.

The State Department is expected to finally name a lead negotiator next month for high level international talks with the U.N. in December that would decide the fate of the Internet, a senior U.S. official told Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio last week.

The nomination would come nearly a year after then-Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin announced in June 2011 that he and his allies sought to establish international control over the Internet. At the time, Putin had “reaffirmed” Russia’s support of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) — a little-known U.N. agency responsible for the international regulation of long-distance calls and satellite orbits — as his preferred instrument to bring about international cooperation on cybersecurity and Internet issues. Russia is a co-founder of the ITU, dating back to 1866.

Imagine walking into your local pawn shop and the store is selling Compact Discs for $5.00 dollars and buying them for $10.00!

A report released today shows Wall Street traders used high-speed computers to create just that situation during the Facebook IPO.

Mitch Stoltz
EFF

Television networks are having a busy month trying to stamp out new TV-watching technology, including telling a court that skipping a commercial while watching a recorded show is illegal. Yesterday, Fox, NBC, and CBS all sued Dish Network over its digital video recorder with automatic commercial-skipping. The same networks, plus ABC, Univision, and PBS, are gearing up for a May 30 hearing in their cases against Aereo, a New York startup bringing local broadcast TV to the Internet...

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

In an attempt to get more money from the state, a middle school and high school in Texas are implementing a program in which student IDs will be outfitted with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in order to track their movements around school.

As is so often done when it comes to surveillance technology, this is being sold to us as something for our own good and the good of our children. This is identical to how the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is pushing their ludicrously unconstitutional license plate surveillance program...

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism’ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like ‘pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico’.

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2012

KingCast/Mortgage Movies Present for Memorial Day: Two Birds One Stone.... U.S. Trustee FOIA Demands as Exempt No-Fee Journalist and Mass DEP 525 Beach Street 21E EPA Response.

Dear Attorney McLeod: As noted in my Sunday, 20 May 2012 Mortgage Movies Journal entry and per our telephone conversation, I have provided you a draft copy of my Federal FOIA lawsuit and just four (4) of approximately eighty (80) Mortgage-related movies I have made since I launched that past approximately fifteen (15) months ago. Note the following, with no paid advertising or promoted videos whatsoever:

Mortgage Movies (15 mos).
33,000 journal page views.
33,000 youtube video views.

KingCast/Chris King's First Amendment Page
410 subscribers
360,000 page views (data only available 2 years)
390,000 video views

Internet Censorship advocates in Congress continue their fight against the Constitution by creating a disguise for the recent House of Representatives-passed CISPA, under the name of Cybersecurity Act 2012, or S. 2105 in the Senate.

The vote on the Cybersecurity Act is rumored to be occurring between May 28th, 2012, and June 1st, 2012, so action needs to be taken as soon as possible, as next week is a recess week for Congress. Any updates on this information will be posted here.

Ever wonder how many of your tax dollars are going to the federal government censoring music blogs based on no real evidence, but just the say so of the RIAA and MPAA?

Nations that carry out cybercrimes and wreak online havoc pose the greatest threat to the future of the internet, the chairman of Google has warned.

Rainey Reitman
EFF

EFF and an array of civil liberties organizations are engaged in a pitched battle against the privacy-invasive legislation Congress is pushing under the guise of promoting “cyber security.”

Everyone agrees that network security is important, but a thinly disguised mass surveillance bill won’t help address the needs of our country in defending our networks...

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

As per usual, the Western-created al Qaeda has emerged from the woodwork to help create support for American policies which hurt the people of the United States.

I have spent a great deal of time trying to detail the various pieces of cybersecurity legislation (one of which is CISPA) being pushed by our so-called representatives in an attempt to get even more control over the Internet and further expand their surveillance capabilities which are already quite substantial thanks in part to companies like Google (and Facebook, of course) and their Big Brother technologies along with the massive data collection industry.

Facebook's chief operating officer joked about the company's disastrous public offering during a speech to Harvard Business School students.

Sheryl Sandberg, 42, asked the class yesterday to click on the social network's advertisements now that the company had gone public.

In the 22-minute speech, where she offered advice based on her career success, the executive quipped: 'We’re public now. So can you click on an ad or two while you’re there?'

Parker Higgins
EFF

Today, Google expanded its transparency reports program today by releasing a detailed report of content removal requests from copyright holders. The new copyright report joins its semi-annual government takedown transparency report, and covers more than 95% of the copyright takedown requests it has received for Search results since July 2011.

Though Google has posted the content of takedown requests to Chilling Effects where possible before, this report presents the data collectively (and graphically) for the first time...

This weekend, Bill Moyers’ public television show is devoting a full hour to Reckoning With Torture, an innovative film project the want you to help make.

Innovative film project by director Doug Liman, the ACLU, and PEN American Center are asking you to help to make a movie to fight the NDAA and help America reckon with torture.

Police announce they are considering plans to arm remotely controlled aircraft with 'less than lethal weapons' such as tear gas, tasers and rubber bullets.

Identical bills in the senate and assembly require anonymous posts to be deleted by administrators of New York-based websites, including "social networks, blog forums, message boards, or any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages."

The proposal has the tech and legal communities reeling – if not outright giggling.

"There are lots of good reasons to ban anonymous comments, and also a lot of good reasons to have anonymous comments, and the state assembly weighing on the issue is strange and slightly ridiculous, slightly goofy," Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia law school, told the Guardian.

Brandon Smith, Contributor
Activist Post

Imagine, if you will, a fantastic near future in which the United States is facing an unmitigated economic implosion. Not just a mere market crash, or a stint of high unemployment, but a full spectrum collapse driven by unsustainable debt spending and hyperinflationary printing. The American people witness multiple credit downgrades of U.S. Treasury mechanisms, the dollar loses its reserve status, devaluation of the currency runs rampant, and the prices of commodities and imported goods immediately skyrocket.

A software development company based in India has launched a new social network dubbed ‘My Last wish’ to help fulfill the ultimate dreams of the people who are dying.

‘My last wish’ is available as an app and has been designed to help people meet others who are also dying but have similar hopes and aspirations which they wish to achieve before they die, a newspaper reported.

The free app’s description in Apple’s App Store, created by a software company called White Lotus Corporation, says: “A social networking application to make friendship wit those unknown people from corners of the world with different ethnicity, culture, traditions, value systems, life style and much more – but having only one thing in common and that is the ‘Last Wish’.

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012

KingCast and Mortgage Movies Video: Drouin Case -- Wells Fargo, Sand Canyon and Option One Lose Motion to Dismiss in NH Federal Court.

This case supports everything I've been arguing to the U.S. DOJ about my status as a journalist exempt from payment of FOIA fees as noted in yesterday's journal entry:
http://mortgagemovies.blogspot.com/2012/05/kingcastmortgage-movies-to-...

A senior US lawmaker with 30 years experience in Congress came out hard against CISPA this week, attacking the legislation’s creators for drafting a bill that erodes Internet privacy for Americans.

Meanwhile, the White House Cyber Security Czar has been forced to step down after bashing out at the over-hyping of cyber security threats who most recently bashed those who use the term “cyberwar,” saying there was no such thing and it was “a terrible concept.”

The Senator is also warning the Democrats version of the bill, named the Cyber Security Act, has the same defects as CISPA, which passed the house last month.

A list of ways to stay connected to the outside world, which could become a life and death issue, in the event access to the internet is shut down.

And now comes some news about the Facebook (FB) IPO that buyers deserve to be outraged about.

Reuters' Alistair Barr is reporting that Facebook's lead underwriters, Morgan Stanley (MS), JP Morgan (JPM), and Goldman Sachs (GS) all cut their earnings forecasts for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow.

This by itself is highly unusual (I've never seen it during 20 years in and around the tech IPO business).

But, just as important, news of the estimate cut was passed on only to a handful of big investor clients, not everyone else who was considering an investment in Facebook.

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

The European Union (EU) is claiming that Google overstepped its bounds as a monopoly. Officials in the EU have been conducting anti-trust investigation into Google’s treatment of search term results.

'I believe that these fast-moving markets would particularly benefit from a quick resolution of the competition issues identified,' said Joaquín Almunia, the head of competition policy for the European Commission. 'Restoring competition swiftly to the benefit of users at an early stage is always preferable to lengthy proceedings, although these sometimes become indispensable to competition enforcement.

Almunia said that Google is becoming a dominant abuser with regard to its business practices.

For those in the class of 2012 who want to be pulled out of the Matrix here's some advice to keep with you on your journey.

A for dummies post post-mortem analysis of Facebook's Epic IPO Crash which has left mom and pop investors with losses of up to 20% in the span of 48 hours.

Anonymous posted the leak to the Pirate Bay and has left the below message. It is unclear what the dump actually contains or if any of it is harmful information.

Greetings world,
We are Anonymous.
Today we are releaseing 1.7GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now.

Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump.
We Lulzed as they took the website down after being owned, clearly showing they were scared of what
inevitably happened.

A new computer virus is spreading via the chat window on Facebook.

The pop-up window, used for person-to-person chat, pops up with a message from a 'friend' which links to an innnocent looking website.

Clicking the link instantly infects your PC with the virus, labelled Steckt.Evl by discoverers Trend Micro.

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

In a report from the World Bank, Africa’s economic development was outlined as a “golden opportunity for a green future”.

At the 4th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) “The vast potential represented by African countries in the fight against climate change cannot be underestimated,” said Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

“The Africa Carbon Forum is where potential projects and developers and funders can meet, exchange ideas, and – it is hoped – take the concrete steps toward greening Africa’s future.”

The ACF held a conference where policymakers, project developers, and private investors discussed climate-smart agriculture, public and private partnerships and funding for projects. However, it is clear that Africa holds more promise than just the inception of carbon emission reduction and carbon finance...

Facebook shares fell more than 10pc below their $38 issue price shortly after trading started on Monday, as support from banks which underwrote the initial public offering dissipated after Friday's market debut.

The shares were down as much as 10.5pc at $34.22 in early afternoon trading - they closed at $38.23 on Friday.

By contrast, Apple shares climbed 1.5pc to $538 today.

Social networking company Facebook's stock market debut was marred by a shaky opening on the Nasdaq which will be reviewed by the SEC, and a falling share price which forced lead underwriter Morgan Stanley to defend the $38 (£24) price level by purchasing shares on the open market.

Up until 26 minutes ago, $38.00 was the most important number for Facebook. That is no longer the case. Below, courtesy of Grant Stevens and Things That Make You Go Hmm are a few more numbers that readers may be interested in.

http://mortgagemovies.blogspot.com/2012/05/kingcastmortgage-movies-to-...

The DOJ Attorney Janice Galli McLeod arbitrarily and capriciously denied my free press fee exemption to help cover up U.S. Trustee Lawrence Sumski's failures of Due Diligence on Bankruptcy B10 Proofs of claim. There is no logical reason why I was denied the exemption based on years of experience as a paid journalist and mortgage industry professional in addition to my current journalism activities that include actual courtroom coverage and analysis of current legal cases and other legislative developments. FOIA was specifically modified to reflect the changes in in journalism to incorporate people like Neil Garfield or me, and a recent NH case of Mortgage Specialists v. Implode-Explode supports my contentions in every aspect. Note that the case involved now is based in NH.

The Police state is in full effect at the NATO protests as cops run over protest with a van an arrest journalists live streaming the event.

Facebook users in California have filed a lawsuit against the social network seeking damages for invasion of their privacy and improper tracking. The suit consolidates 21 related cases filed in more than a dozen states in 2011 and early 2012 alleging that Facebook tracked internet use of its members even after they logged out of their accounts. Lawyers in the suit seek up to USD 10,000 for each Facebook user, or more than $15 billion.

May 19 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter in Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, stands to take a hit from a stock market debut that stoked disappointment among investors in the largest social network.

The bank stepped in to prop up the stock from dipping below its $38 IPO price yesterday, said people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the purchases were private. Morgan Stanley, based in New York, was the only underwriter among Facebook’s 33 banks with the responsibility to support the shares, the people said.

Once again the War on Drugs threatens the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans.

Despite protections afforded under the U.S. Constitution, the federal DEA is trying to initiate a blanket sweep of all license plates traveling along Interstate 15 in Utah, with the intent to store the information in a centralized database.

Furthermore, as noted by the ACLU which attended a recent hearing about the rollout, this federal agency is employing a scanning technology called ALPR to collect data from "unspecified other sources and sharing it with over ten thousand law enforcement agencies around the nation." ...

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

The UK Home Office (UKHO) has British officials surveying its citizens as part of the government’s annual legislative program.

This is an extensive expansion of the current laws to allow the MI5 data securitization.

UKHO claims they are not snooping through private emails and messages, but rather deciphering where the communications are originating from, who sent it, its length and format.

The 4 billion hours of phone calls, 1 million emails and 130 billion text messages that are expected to be prime source information.

The proposed bill, if passed would place massive amounts of personal data into the hands of the British government. How they use that data is purely at their discretion...

Eric Blair
Activist Post

Google is making a big change to how it displays results in its dominant search engine. It is rolling out a new feature called the Knowledge Graph which breaks from the traditional practice of matching keywords with webpages.

According to an article on Blog Tips about Google's Knowledge Graph, immediate answers or "facts" from pre-selected sources like the CIA Factbook, Wikipedia, and the World Bank will be provided in search results along side the organic results...

revor Timm
EFF

A series of events in the last two weeks have set the stage for how surveillance drones will be operated by local law enforcement in the United States and how citizens can demand privacy protections as domestic use escalates. As EFF has previously reported, Congress passed a bill in February mandating the FAA must open national airspace to drones, despite the extensive and unprecedented civil liberties dangers they pose to every American.

The FAA, in new rules announced on Monday, made the authorization procedure easier, stating they have “streamlined the process” for “public agencies”—which includes local law enforcement—to legally operate drones in U.S. skies. We know that dozens of law enforcement agencies already have drones, based on information from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over the FAA’s initial refusal to release the list of authorizations. And one of the biggest cities with a police department on the list was Seattle...

As the run on the banks spread in Europe, with 30% of customers pulling cash out of UK branches of Spain's Santander bank, the Euro spikes on absolutely no news.

The site just isn’t for me so I never log in. Haven’t for months at least. Yet just in these last few days the site has been sending me emails when anything happens there. It doesn’t normally do this. I just can’t get it out of my head that perhaps they’re trying to make sure that all those dormant accounts wake up and log in, even if just to see what the alert email is talking about, so that usage numbers go up nicely in the next set of quarterly figures.

Facebook opened its shares for stock market trading today, opening at $42.05 only to immediately crash nearly 10% to $38 per share.

The House-approved legislation that would erode Internet privacy for Americans might have just bypassed a major hurdle. The White House official who publically condemned CISPA has suddenly stepped down as Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator.

Police - or anyone with a piece of spying software - can track everything you do on your iPhone without needing physical access to your phone.

The software, called Phone Password Breaker, can download all of the data from Apple's iCloud service - which backs up all of your pictures, text messages, emails, calendar appointments, call logs, website you have visited, and contacts.

As iPhones sync nearly instantaneously with iCloud, anyone who is listening will have near-instantaneous access to your phone - without the owner noticing a thing.

Nicholas West
Activist Post

Do you want to tap into your local scene? Are you a tourist looking for some action-packed nightlife? Or do you want to find a quiet out-of-the way place for a romantic evening?

A new facial "detection" app has hit the bar market in San Francisco, and its intentions are coming under scrutiny by potential patrons.

SceneTap is one of a plethora of private companies who are using the military tech of biometrics to database your face in a quest to offer convenience and enhanced social networking, paving the way toward making "anonymous" biometric information part of one's entertainment repertoire with trendy tech applications...

After congress recently approved the deployment of 30,000 drones over US skies, police in Austin, Texas are now training to use them.

Gwen Hinze
EFF

Fifty leading U.S. legal scholars cast fresh doubt on the constitutionality of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in an open letter to the Senate Finance Committee today. (Press Release). At issue is whether the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) had authority to enter into the controversial IP enforcement agreement on behalf of the United States when the Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador signed ACTA in October 2011.

The law professors say no, and call on the Senators to “exercise your constitutional responsibility to ensure that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is submitted to the Senate for approval as an Article II treaty, or to the Congress as an ex-post Congressional-Executive Agreement.” ...

So, the OEMs make money from installing crapware onto PCs, and now Microsoft is making money removing it. Makes you realize why more and more people are buying Apple hardware.

A new academic paper by a researcher from the North Carolina State University has examined the link between BitTorrent downloads and music album sales. Contrary to what’s often claimed by the major record labels, the paper concludes that there is absolutely no evidence that unauthorized downloads negatively impact sales. Instead, the research finds that more piracy directly leads to more album sales.

Forrester analyst Nate Elliott has this to say:

One global consumer goods company told us recently that Facebook was getting worse, rather than better, at helping marketers succeed. And companies in industries from consumer electronics to financial services tell us they’re no longer sure Facebook is the best place to dedicate their social marketing budget – a shocking fact given the site’s dominance among users.

Schools are being forced to gain parental permission if they want to use pupils' fingerprints or other biometric data, the government has confirmed.

Some schools and colleges have already been using facial scanning and fingerprint identification to record attendance and allow pupils to access facilities like the school library.

But under new rules schools will be required to gain written permission from parents who will be given the right to veto the use of such sensitive data.

"I have heard from many angry parents after they have learned that their children's personal data was being used by schools without their knowledge," said schools minister Nick Gibb.

"The new legislation gives the power back to parents, as it requires parental consent before the information can be collected.

"Biometrics in schools is a sensitive issue. We want schools to be in no doubt of their responsibilities when it comes to young people's personal data."

The treasonous sleazebags at Google are removing From the Trenches articles from the searches. We know Google’s start up was funded by the CIA and that Google works hand in hand with that agency to spy on we the people and to suppress information that shows the international socialist insurgency for the reality it is. The people who own Google and operate it are nothing but Zionist lapdogs. They serve Benjamin Netanyahu, the King of Israel and are protected by the traitors within our own government.

Unless you can employ a law firm, you cannot even so much as complain about Google’s actions, hence they are above any of the laws of we the American people. Hell, you cannot even write an email to Google. What other business in the United States is so protected that you cannot even file an administrative complaint with the agency that regulates it?

Eva Galperin
EFF

Iran Continues March Towards “Halal Internet”

This past weekend, Iran’s minister of telecommunications announced that domestic institutions including banks, telecom companies, insurance firms, and universities are now prohibited from dealing with emails that do not come from an “.ir” domain name.

This means that customers who use foreign email clients such as Gmail, Yahoo!, and Hotmail will have to switch to domestic Iranian accounts, which are subject to Iranian legal jurisdiction...

Individual articles on websites will no longer carry the same pagerank as the hosting website since Google is now indexing each article as if they were unique pages. Is this the end of syndication, guest posting, or sponsored guest posts as we know it?

If you have a Google PageRank tool on your browser, go to CNN.com. You'll notice that their homepage has an enviable Google PageRank 8. Then click on the headline story on the front page and you'll notice that the pagerank disappears to nothing.

Although I used CNN as an example, I hardly feel bad for them as this move by Google seems to protect the big guys and put the small independent bloggers at a distinct disadvantage...

The former head of U.S. counter-espionage says the Harper government is putting North American security at risk by allowing a giant Chinese technology company to participate in major Canadian telecommunications projects.

In an exclusive interview in Washington, Michelle K. Van Cleave told CBC News the involvement of Huawei Technologies in Canadian telecom networks risks turning the information highway into a freeway for Chinese espionage against both the U.S. and Canada.

(StingRay's comment: Strange the former head of US counter-espionage is silent on the participation of foreign, Israeli, high-tech firms and telecom equipment providers (many with Mossad connections) in building and maintaining the US telecommunications infrastructure! Oh, sorry, my mistake. I get it. Israel is, cough, cough, our ally in the war on terror, so you think it's ok to trust them having access to sensitive information. LOL)

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

If you needed one more example of how DNA will soon cease to exist as a private piece of information, you need look no further than the latest product launch by Applied DNA Sciences.

On May 10, the company announced that it is releasing a new QR (Quick Read) Code secured by nothing other than DNA. Without a doubt, this new product launch is yet another step toward the ultimate collection, databasing, and use of DNA by governments and corporations on a universal basis...

According to Emma Draper, a spokesperson for the event organisers, “Based on our conversations with MPs and leading experts, we understand that there are two prongs to this new policy. … CCDP is likely to require that third party services [e.g., Facebook and Google] grant government agencies access to data [and to install] black boxes at ISPs and network providers to monitor and store all communications data…kit that performs deep packet inspection (DPI).”

Medical and social security records kept by public bodies are being unlawfully or inappropriately accessed dozens of times a month and hundreds of civil servants disciplined for data offences, according to Government records.

The DWP figures show that between April 2010 and last March a total of 513 staff members were disciplined for “unauthorised disclosure of official, sensitive, private and/or personal information... to anyone” from its database holding the records of 98 million people, which can be accessed by 200,000 people. For the 10 months from April 2011 to this January, the figure was 463.

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

If you needed any more proof that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is doing absolutely nothing to keep Americans safe – since there is, in reality, no terrorist threat whatsoever – aside from the constant “mistakes” and allowing airport employees to work without background checks, now you have it.

Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, a Nigerian immigrant, lived under the name Jerry Thomas for around 20 years and somehow was not only able to hold a job but hold a job supervising security officers at a relatively large airport.

The real Jerry Thomas was reportedly murdered in 1992 in Queens, New York, yet somehow Oyewole was able to pass both state and federal background checks in order to hold his position supervising 30 security guards at Newark Liberty International Airport...

Maira Sutton
EFF

The U.S. content industry will try anything to preserve its profit margin and power over the creative content market at the expense of the Internet. They will use any tactic that circumvents democratic processes to make new rules for the Internet that favor their interests and not the interests of Internet users or the technical community that actually builds the Internet as we know it. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is yet another example of these tactics.

14 MAY 2012

Nasty Revere MA Mayor's Office Calls Cops on Pesky EPA 21-E EPA Coverup Reporter at 525 Beach Street

The movie shown is from today. The movie shown at the post is from last week. In that post is your back story, and a good background journal entry.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/2012/04/kingcast-and-clifford-pis...

Oh, wait, I forgot. According to developer's Counsel Howard Brown I am not "real media." I know, I know... because "real media" doesn't do this sort of thing too much anymore but I'm just one of those old school types.... sorry.

Brit Dee, Contributor
Activist Post

Yet another potential danger has been added to the ever-growing and increasingly absurd list of supposed terror threats - the "E-Bomb".

An "E-bomb" is a weapon designed to be detonated in the upper atmosphere, and which emits a strong electromagnetic pulse. British Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond, speaking today at a conference in London attended by the US Assistant Defence Secretary, warned that terrorists or "rogue states" could use such a device to devastate Britain's infrastructure.

The E-bomb, if detonated some 500 miles above the Earth, would apparently take out satellites, radar and the National Grid with 'devastating' results. Key military installations, transport systems, power and water supplies would also be hit...

Documents show the White House, DHS, and the Pentagon coordinating and orchestrating the Occupy Wall Street crackdown while attempting to cover their tracks.

More than a decade after 9/11, heightened security at U.S. airports has become routine, yet some religious and minority groups say they're unfairly singled out for even more screening. Well, now there's an app for that.

The mobile app is called FlyRights. Travelers who suspect they have been profiled take out their smartphone, tap a finger on the app and answer about a dozen questions. Then they hit "submit" and an official complaint is filed immediately with the Transportation Security Administration.

The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday.

This week yet another court order was handed down in Europe with the aim of censoring The Pirate Bay. The ruling forbids the Dutch Pirate Party from not only running a direct proxy, but also telling people how to circumvent an earlier court ordered blockade. However, according to Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge, the judge in the case has a history of corruption relating to another file-sharing case he presided over in the Netherlands.

In a bid to make critical infrastructure vendors to take cyber security threats seriously, researchers release Stuxnet inspired exploits.

The United States has successfully launched a multi-million-dollar rocket carrying an undisclosed cargo believed to be a top-secret spy satellite.

Prosectors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move, according to court records.

Scientists have created a working quantum computer inside a diamond that includes protection against decoherence noise that prevents it from functioning properly.

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

Recently, CIA Director David Petraeus made headlines with a speech given at the summit for In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm. In this talk, Petraeus discussed the emerging “internet of things” and the implications it will have for increased levels of surveillance. Petraeus explained that, because of the rise of gadgets which are connected and controlled by apps, intelligence agencies will no longer need to place spy devices inside your home – you will do it for them.

A new computer trojan has infected 550,000 machines running Apple's Mac OS X - and many could still be vulnerable.

The infected machines are now part of a 'botnet' of zombie machines which can be controlled by cyber criminals and 'told' to download new malicious software.

The attack has been described as a 'rude awakening' for Mac users.

YouTube has censored a video critical of a global warming alarmists, who says global warming skeptics need to be treated, as a violation of community guidelines.