Brian Donohue

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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

Man Arrested Selling Classified Documents to FBI

The
Washington Post is reporting that Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin was
arrested sometime last week on suspicion of stealing classified documents from
military networks and attempting to sell them to a foreign agent.

PayPal Drops Wikileaks, Denies DDoS Attack

Paypal confirmed on Monday that it “permanently restricted” the account used by Wikileaks, citing a violation of its Acceptable Use Policy. The action was just the latest by government and private sector organizations in response to the recent publication of leaked diplomatic cables from the U.S. Department of State and could add to official and unofficial attempts to deny the information leaking organization an operational foothold.

Study Finds Popular Sites Guilty of Hi-Jacking History

A recent study launched by the UC San Diego Department of
Computer Science to determine the scope of privacy-violating information flows at
popular websites shows that popular Web 2.0 applications such as mashups,
aggregators, and sophisticated ad targeting are teeming with various kinds of
priv


The Wikileaks Website labored under a massive denial of service attack Tuesday, 48 hours after the site published its first installment of a massive trove of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.Both Wikileaks.org and cablegate.wikileaks.org, the subdomain created to host the leaked U.S. embassy cables were both reachable Tuesday afternoon. However, Internet monitoring firms confirm that the site has been the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since posting the documents on Sunday.