DITTOS RUSH! Contemporary media musings with an emphasis on fighting truth decay.
Dateline 2013: Hacking didn't being with Russia. US President Barack Obama has defended the surveillance practices of his administration. The Obama government and its spy agencies can see much of people's online activities.
Leaked documents show that they have been using the world's largest internet companies to spy on foreigners. Civil liberties groups are furious. Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports from Washington.
Los Alamitos City Hall was the scene where some clashed over a Sanctuary City ordinance. Singing, shouting, and debating took place in and out of the chambers. There's no single definition of what is a sanctuary city, but generally speaking, it's a city (or a county, or a state) that limits its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents in order to protect low-priority immigrants from deportation, while still turning over those who have committed serious crimes.
Legendary boxing promoter Don King explains what makes President Donald Trump a successful president:  |
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Chicago
police are trying to identify around 60 students from Simeon Career
Academy who went one an extremely damagin spree while they were supposed
to be protesting guns Wednesday. 
Christopher Wylie oversaw what may have been the first critical breach. Aged 24, while studying for a PhD in fashion trend forecasting, he came up with a plan to harvest the Facebook profiles of millions of people in the US, and to use their private and personal information to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles. And then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup.
“We ‘broke’ Facebook,” he says.
And he did it on behalf of his new boss, Steve Bannon.
“Is it fair to say you ‘hacked’ Facebook?” I ask him one night.
He hesitates. “I’ll point out that I assumed it was entirely legal and above board.”
British
cities would be uninhabitable within days and the country is only a few
meals from anarchy if the National Grid was taken down in a cyber attack or solar storm, disaster and security experts have warned. |
| Border wall prototypes |
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