by Jon Brodkin The do-it-yourselfers at Adafruit have provided step-by-step instructions for turning a Raspberry Pi into a Tor proxy and wireless access point. A good project for users looking to anonymize their Internet traffic, “Onion Pi” requires just a Raspberry Pi, a few standard peripherals, and some work in the command line. You’ll need a Pi (of course), an Ethernet cable, a Wi-Fi adapter with an antenna, an SD card loaded with the Raspbian operating system, and a power supply.
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A former station chief with the CIA has been detained in Panama after being on the run from Italian police for more than a decade. Robert Seldon Lady, 59, was reportedly brought into custody early Thursday after surfacing in the Central American country. An Italian court convicted him in 2009 in absentia of abducting an Egyptian terror suspect from the streets of Milan, and he was sentenced in early 2013 to nine years in prison.
The Obama administration has renewed the authority for the National Security Agency to regularly collect the phone records of millions of Americas as allowed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The United States government has reportedly asked the FISA court every 90 days since 2006 to renew an order that compels the nation’s telecommunication providers to hand over telephony metadata pertaining to millions of US citizens. The program has been conducted in near total secrecy
By Nancy Kaffer The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal court Thursday, laying the groundwork for a historic effort to bail out a city that is sinking under billions of dollars in debt and decades of mismanagement, population flight and loss of tax revenue. The bankruptcy filing makes Detroit the largest city in U.S. history to do so.
The FBI has reviewed thousands of criminal cases and suspects that 27 death penalty convictions may have been secured by using faulty and exaggerated testimonies that may have wrongfully linked defendants to crimes. A joint review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department was launched after the Washington Post last year reported that flawed forensic work by FBI hair examiners might have led to the convictions of innocent people. The article suggested that Justice Department officials knew of the flaws, but failed to acknowledge them.
An Iowa law enforcement agent who reported Governor Terry Branstad for speeding and complained about the governor’s state troopers has been fired after 25 years on the job. Larry Hedlund, a 55-year-old agent of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), believes he was unjustly terminated because he reported the governor’s vehicle for speeding.
President Obama considers cancelling his planned trip to Moscow over disagreements regarding former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The New York Times reports. Officials cited by the Times have said that, while Obama still plans to travel to St. Petersburg for the annual gathering of the G20, he is now rethinking a stop in Moscow due to a range of issues existing between Russia and the US, most notably the tentative residence of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a major international airport in the Russian capital.
[S]ome police departments are using miniaturized video cameras and their microphones to capture, in full detail, officers’ interactions with civilians. The cameras are so small that they can be attached to a collar, a cap or even to the side of an officer’s sunglasses. High-capacity battery packs can last for an extended shift. And all of the videos are uploaded automatically to a central server that serves as a kind of digital evidence locker.
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon “has no choice” but to refuse a medical test to see if he is fit to be extradited to the US, his mother has said. Janis Sharp said it was “an impossibility” because the expert chosen by the Home Office had no experience with Asperger’s syndrome. Mr McKinnon, from north London, admits hacking US military computers but says he was looking for evidence of UFOs. If he is convicted in the US, he could face up to 60 years in jail.
By Adam Kredo Iran’s foreign ministry on Friday criticized the acquittal of George Zimmerman and chastised the United States for widespread “racial discrimination.” “The acquittal of the murderer of the teenage African American once again clearly demonstrated the unwritten, but systematic racial discrimination against racial, religious, and ethnic minorities in the US society,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Araqchi was quoted as saying by Iran’s state run Fars News Agency.
by Grant Cameron In my book “UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants” I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence that backed the idea of an inside control group known as MJ-12. The idea of this MJ-12 group started to appear in the early 1980s, through a researcher known as Bill Moore. Moore had written a book known as the Roswell Incident which sold many copies and was the forerunner of the modern obsession with the Roswell crash. Days after Moore released the book he was contacted by US intelligence which started to tell him the story of…
Eat, sleep or just stand around in public…illegal. Especially if you look like you’re homeless.
The British parliament is to hold an inquiry into whether laws on ‘state snooping’ are up to the task of regulating Britain’s spy agencies in the age of the internet. Despite the fact the parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) cleared the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) of circumventing UK law by its use of the NSA’s Prism surveillance program in a report released on Wednesday, it has decided to mount a wider legal investigation into UK surveillance operations.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again! Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer. Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels — fresh nutritious bagels — to donate to the poor.
The owner of a website that posted a grisly video at the centre of the Luka Magnotta murder case has been granted bail but won’t be allowed to use the Internet. A judge ordered that Mark Marek, who operates bestgore.com, be released from the Edmonton Remand Centre on Thursday on $7,500 cash bail. Police charged Marek on Tuesday with one count of corrupting morals, a rarely used offence in the Criminal Code. Marek, 38, appeared in court on a closed-circuit TV screen and tried to talk about his website.
By Holly Richmond Solar is for rich people — or so it often seems. There’s the cost of the panels themselves (although they’re slowly becoming more affordable) and the fact that getting your landlord to plop solar panels atop your apartment building might be a lost cause (unless you live in these Seattle apartments). Community solar is catching on, but solar is still out of reach for most of us.
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., is calling on the Obama administration to explain why the survivors of last year’s deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, were reportedly asked to sign non-disclosure agreements that prevent them from talking about the attack. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and CIA Director John Brennan, Wolf said his office has received reports that some survivors of the attack were asked to sign the confidentiality agreement as recently as this summer.
After authorities found GMO wheat growing on the field of an Oregon farmer, they were hoping to quickly trace the origin of the crop. Three months later, though, investigators are even more puzzled than before. A farmer in Oregon discovered in May that a GMO wheat crop manufactured by biotech company Monsanto and discontinued years earlier had mysteriously sprouted in his field.