(MPN) Last Tuesday, during his testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, National Security Agency director Admiral Mike Rogers echoed the previous testimonies given by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials, who have sought to use the “Russian hacking” narrative as leverage to justify a greater role for Read More…
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The Late SCOTUS Justice Scalia Thought Obama Was Spying On Him
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, the late Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia suspected that former president Barack Obama was surveilling him and the entire Supreme Court. Napolitano also believes it is necessary to subpoena Obama in an attempt to uncover the truth. “Justice Scalia told me that he often thought the court was being surveilled. And he Read More…
Massive Corporate Consolidation of Local News Underway
In a deal that will allow one broadcasting company to reach 72 percent of U.S. households through ownership of local news stations, it was reported this week that Sinclair Broadcast Group is buying Tribune Media for nearly $4 billion. Such a move wouldn’t have been possible a few weeks back, but Donald Trump’s new Federal Read More…
24 Hours Later: “Unprecedented” Fallout From “Biggest Ransomware Attack In History”
24 hours after it first emerged, it has been called the first global, coordinated ransomware attack using hacking tools developed by the NSA, crippling over a dozen hospitals across the UK, mass transit around Europe, car factories in France and the UK, universities in China, corporations in the US, banks in Russia and countless other Read More…
“Worst-Ever Recorded”Global Ransomware Attacks 74 Nations – Used NSA Hacking Tools “At A Scale Never Seen Before”
“Worst-Ever Recorded” Ransomware Attack Strikes Over 57,000 Users Worldwide The ransomware has been identified as WannaCry * * * Update 4: According to experts tracking and analyzing the worm and its spread, this could be one of the worst-ever recorded attacks of its kind. The security researcher who tweets and blogs as MalwareTech told The Intercept Read More…
The Imperative Of Replacing Google And Facebook
Nations are beginning to take more seriously the control of their respective information space after years of allowing US-based tech giants Google and Facebook to monopolize and exploit them. Vietnam, according to a recent GeekTime article, is the latest nation to begin encouraging local alternatives to the search engine and social media network in order Read More…






