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Tech NewsSocial MediaFacebook Belatedly Bans All Trade in Historical Artifacts After Becoming Global Black Market Hub
Facebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market trade in looted antiquitieson the site, per the New York Times—a problem the social media company has known about for years. The new rules ban any “attempts to buy, sell or trade in historical artifacts,” defined … Continued
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Tech NewsCrimeU.S. Army Soldier Charged With Plotting to Attack His Own Unit With Neo-Nazi Satanists
A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with plotting an attack on his own unit in coordination with the Order of Nine Angles (O9A), a somewhat obscure white supremacist and Satanist group. According to indictment documents filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and available on the Department … Continued
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Tech NewsEverything We Know About the U.S. Spy Drone Shot Down By Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has shot down a U.S. drone, according to multiple reports by Iranian state media channels. U.S. officials initially claimed that the drone was an MQ-4C Triton brought down by a surface-to-air missile, but CENTCOM now says it was an RQ-4A Global Hawk. And there are major differences in the early U.S. and … Continued
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Tech NewsCIA’s Solution to Killing Too Many Civilians: Knife Bomb
The CIA and the U.S. military have been using a new type of missile during some drone strikes in recent years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. What makes this new missile unique? It doesn’t explode and instead deploys sharp blades, hitting targets “like a speeding anvil” from the sky. The new … Continued
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Tech NewsTerrorist on Flight From Somalia Allegedly Hid Bomb in Laptop
The alleged terrorist who blew himself up on a Daallo Airlines plane last week hid his bomb inside a laptop, according to Somali officials. The man, identified as 55-year-old Abdullahi Abdisalam Borle, is believed to have been handed the laptop by two men posing as airline workers at the Mogadishu airport. The explosion in midair … Continued
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Tech NewsInside Al Qaeda’s Half-Baked Plans to Take Down U.S. Drones
As much as we like to gripe about it stateside, our complaints about the drone program are nothing compared to those of Al Qaeda. The terrorists don’t like drones, because drones are designed to kill terrorists. According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, however, Al Qaeda’s about to fight back. The Washington Post gained access … Continued
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Al-Qaeda Can Turn Clothes into Explosives By Dipping Them in Liquid
ABC News is reporting that al Qaeda has come up with a “new generation of liquid explosives” for a potential attack. The scary thing is that the bomb “would not be detected by current security measures”. Even scarier is that a US official called the new method “ingenious”. Well, then. The new bomb method sounds … Continued
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How To Avoid American Drones, by Al-Qaeda
When AP reporters walked through turf where Islamic terrorists had been driven out by the French military, they found a curious photocopied document: a list of 22 tips for avoiding UAV death. But you can use them, too! Most of the stuff seems like pretty solid advice centered around hiding or covering yourself with other … Continued
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Al Qaeda Planned To Put Bombs Inside Pets To Blow Up Airplanes
Ibrahim al-Asiri is al Qaeda’s top bomb maker. He’s also the operative behind the failed underwear bomb plot in 2009, and he’s got some devious, evil genius-level plans for bombs that find their way onto airplanes without being detected. He wanted to hide explosives inside pets—you know, man’s best friend? Blowing Fido to smithereens when … Continued
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Seized Memory Card Contained al Qaeda Documents Encoded in Porn
Last year, Maqsood Lodin was being interviewed by police after he’d travelled to Pakistan. When his questioners found a memory card in his underwear, they were suspicious—but it seemed only to contain porn. Later investigation, however, reveals that one film was actually encoded with more than 100 secret al Qaeda documents. CNN reports that Lodin … Continued
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Al-Qaeda’s Only Trusted Communication Channel Was Hacked
Al-Shamuhk is the online forum where officially-sanctioned Al-Qaeda propaganda disseminates. It’s the only internet communication channel they say you can trust. And this week, someone hacked the forum and took it off line. Experts tell IDG News that the incident was most likely due to attacks on the domain name and the data server, and … Continued
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MI6 Hacked Al Qaeda Website, Swapping Bomb Recipes With Cupcake Recipes
Just imagine the look of surprise on an al Qaeda member’s face when they thought they were loading a tutorial on how to “make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” but actually got…a recipe for mojito cupcakes. Famed British intelligence agency MI6 hacked the first English-language Jihadist online magazine, Inspire, last year but … Continued
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Even Bin Laden Rejected Blade-Wielding Monster Truck Idea
According to Pro Publica, bin Laden once rejected the idea of creating a modified killing truck, apparently feeling like it was out of line, even by his standards. The magazine, called Inspire, “apparently discussed using a tractor or farm vehicle in an attack outfitted with blades or swords as a fearsome killing machine,” the official … Continued
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Tech News‘Home Videos’ Show Bin Laden Watching Himself on TV
Intelligence officials released five “home videos” of Osama Bin Laden recovered from the Al Qaeda leader’s compound after he was killed by U.S. forces on Sunday. We know what you’re wondering: None of them, so far, are sex tapes. Instead, the five videos—excerpts of which are below—are mostly outtakes from his propaganda films, plus, apparently, … Continued
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