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Welcome to the Security and Intelligence Twine. A general interest twine covering news, views and personal opinion regarding all security and open source Intelligence matters.
This Twine is not constrained to any geographic area and is open to any and all all useful information on the subject matter, by default though many contributions will be UK and US centric...apologies in advance for this!
Other twines of potential interest in this area and well worth a look:
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This Twine is not constrained to any geographic area and is open to any and all all useful information on the subject matter, by default though many contributions will be UK and US centric...apologies in advance for this!
Other twines of potential interest in this area and well worth a look:
Terrorism,
Information Security,
Security,
Terrorism and the Internet,
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Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets • The RegisterMossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel. The information extracted was used to plan a bombing raid at a suspected nuclear reactor facility in Syria, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports. The air raid on the partly-constructed ...
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Secret IP Treaty Proposal Rubs Tech WrongThe negotiations over the International Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that concluded another round this week in Seoul, South Korea, prompts watchdog groups to complain to President Obama about Hollywood's influence over the talks and the lack of transparency surrounding the entire negotiations....
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Inside the Army’s Far-Out Acid Tests | Danger Room | Wired.comDropping acid to boost the Pentagon’s psychic powers was just the start. The Men Who Stare At Goats, the upcoming movie based on Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book of the same name, has George Clooney and Jeff Bridges in a bizarre military research project involving astral projection, remote viewing, ...
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Windows 7 Still Vulnerable to Viruses — Durr, Really? | Gadget Lab | Wired.comWindows 7 is a valuable upgrade delivering an awesome new user interface, but don’t expect any major improvements in security. Anti-virus software vendor Sophos tested Windows 7’s built-in anti-virus capabilities by feeding a clean system 10 pieces of the newest malware. Eight out of the 10 ...
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Fingerprint Technology Beats World’s Toughest Tests…Including 100s of Builders’ ThumbsTechnology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world’s two toughest technical fingerprint tests. The technology is also being rapidly taken up by ...
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2NYT: Battle disaster review sways war strategy - The New York Times- msnbc.comDare one say that even the US military is now concluding "it takes a [trusting] village" as well "nation building" via civilian engagement and protection. Once again, previous the glib and rancorous objects by "conservatives" and Republicans in this regard are being proven wrong and rejected ...JDP added 5 weeks ago
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2Scary animation of 9/11 jet impact reveals truth | DVICE"You KNOW", when someone terms them self something outrageous or categorical ("freedom fighters", "the moral majority", "truthers", "the defense department"), quite often they aren't (or won't be for long!).JDP added 2 months ago
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2Senate ups ante on whether to build more F-22s - Yahoo! NewsYou know, unwanted, unneeded, hardly or never working "defense" project have LONG been the CONTINUING "stimulus" package of choice in Congress. Few have fought against that; and their total cost DWARFS the "awful Obama" stimulus package.JDP added 4 months ago
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2World news Feed Article | World news | guardian.co.ukWonder how much that cost in money or concessions (to Kyrgyzstan and/or Russia)?JDP added 4 months ago
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2Senate Panel Votes for More Stealth Jets, Defying Gates | Danger Room | Wired.comHmmm ... may the General (and Congress) could tell us exactly what in our "national military strategy" requires more F-22s!? Well, maybe nothing is necessary from Congress (too many representatives get benefits for their constituents / districts from the program to let it go = money and jobs).JDP added 4 months ago
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