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You can always count on pride

On DC’s beltway, you can easily spot trucks carrying concealed military equipment. All you have to do is to go about your business, and you will pass one or two semi trucks every day, each carrying some big payload wrapped in canvas. While the trucks are generic, the canvas isn’t. You will almost certainly find [...]

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Has your fish tasted funny lately?

Just found out from a Congressional Report that the US Military disposed of chemical weapons in the oceans from World War I through 1970. The report is frank about the quantities and make-up of those chemical weapons. It’s funny (in an ironic sort of way) how at first, they dumped them fairly close to shore, [...]

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British court backs extradition of so-called Pentagon hacker

CNN has the details on this. My take is simple: I think the guy’s being used as a scapegoat after proving how easy it is to hack into supposedly “secret” databases/servers. The poor guy wasn’t even trying to cause damage, he was “looking for UFOs”. Not sure what he was thinking (or not thinking) when [...]

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CIA fires senior officer over secret prison leaks

According to an article in the NYT, the Central Intelligence Agency has dismissed a senior career officer for “disclosing classified information to reporters, including material for Pulitzer Prize-winning articles in The Washington Post about the agency’s secret overseas prisons for terror suspects, intelligence officials said Friday.” Here’s the link to a Boing Boing post about [...]

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Confess your secrets: i4giveu

From TechCrunch:
“i4giveu is an Israeli site that allows people to post confessions and ask for the community’s judgement. Confessions can be posted anonymously and are tagged for easy browsing. It just launched, and some of the ‘confessions’ seem a little canned or just plain dumb. And while this isn’t any kind of substitution for real [...]

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