Failing again. Failing better.
The Department of Homeland Security recently put out a call for a “Wide Area Surveillance System” capable of monitoring five to ten square kilometers (about two to four square miles). Homeland Security wants this system to fit on a manned P-3 Orion spy plane or one of the two Predator drones DHS already has. Homeland…
There are a few stories going around today about a demonstration of a time cloak. You can read the New Scientist’s coverage here and Danger Room’s coverage here. Now a lot of this science is well beyond me (if you want to read about the research, you can check out the scientists’ article in Nature…
Wired’s Danger Room blog discussed an AP article about a homemade, encrypted, DIY radio network run by the Zetas that stretches across all of Mexico and into Guatemala. The network is built using “professional-grade” radio antennas, signal relays, and simple handheld radios that cost “millions of dollars.” Yet the individual components are inexpensive, so the…
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “what if” post, but Wired’s Danger Room posted a story that was too good to resist. The story summarizes nine secret military programs that have experienced leaks to varying degrees. The programs include the USS Jimmy Carter, a specially-equipped spy sub; the Air Force’s X-37B space plane…
Stories are circulating today trying to explain why CIA assets in Lebanon may have been rolled up by Hezbollah. The stories, if true, point to lazy tradecraft by CIA officers who were tasked with spying on the Iran-backed terrorist group. Even worse is that CIA officers working in Lebanon had been warned against such laziness…