Australian Federal Police have recruited twenty-youths, aged between 14 to 16 years, to help them fighting online crime. Why teens ? because their surfing skills are better than the veteran agents. Good point. ...
The New York Times has a report today on Chinese espionage.China has a world wide web of spies and it goes after technology it deems important for its defense forces.It is interesting that the liberal leaning Times...
While it might be difficult to identify precisely the impact of the spooks (variously represented in the press as “intelligence”, “security”, “Whitehall” or “Home Office” sources) on mainstream politics and media, from the limited evidence it looks to be...
Japan has lifted sanctioned imposed on North Korea after latter tested a nuclear bomb in 2006. Sanction has been continued after every six months since then. But today it lifted and this will loosen restrictions on...
As the US military seeks to up its intelligence game, it has turned to, well, games in order to better train its operatives. Splinter Cell is not among the titles, however, as these are custom games, focusing not on...
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Churchill himself didn't believe in astrology, apparently, but many thought Hitler did. Desperate times called for desperate measuring of stars and celestial points."British spies hired an astrologer during the...
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It's a little harder to eavesdrop on a tapped phone line when it's been disconnected. It seems a few FBI slackers have been forgetting to pay their phone bills and losing wiretap lines as a result. Maybe they should...
At Dutch Restaurant of the Future, social studies are on the menu. And you're the appetizer. Actually, for now, the restaurant is only open to students and staff from Wageningen University in the Netherlands....
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Three Venezuelans and an Uruguayan national were arrested last night and appeared in federal court in Miami today on charges of acting and conspiring to act as agents of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela within the United States, without prior notification to the...
Morgan meets a girl that he likes. It’s “Karina”, one of Sarah’s old
friends. She works undercover for the DEA. She wants an op setup to
retrieve a precious diamond from a guy involved in the heroin trade in
the Middle East.
Sarah warns Chuck not to trust Karina,...
"Parking attendants could soon be able to hand out on-the-spot fines if they catch anyone dropping litter.
The attendants will be re-named "civil enforcement officers" and allowed to issue penalty notices for fly-posting and graffiti.
They would also become council "spies",...
The "social lifeline" that is T-Mobile's sidekick is getting a youth-friendly boost: "Sidekicks are all getting a MySpace app. The app lets you edit your profile, upload photos to their galleries and receive messages...
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So it appears that the Canadian Prime Minister Mr. Harper is shy about free and democratic opinion regarding the nations military adventures in Afghanistan.
Should we, the voting public, write about the weather instead? Or simply continue to read and write about unpopular...
Why not just privatise the Presidency as well? It would be easier to fire the CEO. - The Angryindian.............................................."Bush Outsourcing Intelligence to Private Contractors The...
"BOSTON - The head of the FBI's Boston office is warning the region's top universities to be on the lookout for foreign spies or potential terrorists who might be trying to steal unclassified, yet sensitive, research.
FBI agents met recently with officials at Harvard...