Via Wampum, this article regarding an unusual application of WiFi networking – setting off claymores! The US Army in Iraq is apparently using the well-loved 802.11 standard that makes grand people’s laptops connect to the net in airports to control command-detonated mines used for perimeter defence. Great. The weapon concerned is not technically a land…
Read More Interesting, and rather worrying too (Fun with Electronic Warfare)Mark Ames of the Exile has an excellent report from the Moldovan election campaign. Read it, it’s good and terrible.
Read More Moldova; worth readingWhy am I not in the least surprised by this? Titan, Inc., one of the companies involved in supplying privately-employed interrogators at Abu Ghraibh, has been caught paying out huge bribes to the president of Benin in order to get contracts. They shelled out two wedges of a million bucks each for him, and tossed…
Read More Privatised Interrogators in Corruption ScandalSteam locomotive explosion, Ukraine….east/west cargo airline cia….and the best of the lot, nick the chicken bulgarian gangster.
Read More Curious search requestsImmigration Minister Des Browne has just been on BBC Radio 5! As we haven’t had any ID knocking copy for a while, I think some of his points deserve scrutiny. For a start, can anyone take his answer to a caller complaining about the cost of the scheme seriously? Mr. Browne felt moved to reply…
Read More Des Browne: Slimeball