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Internet Fibre Can Secretly Listen To Users' Conversations: Study
A new study has revealed that fibre optic internet cables can potentially detect and recover nearby conversations by sensing tiny sound vibrations, raising fresh concerns over privacy and cybersecurity.
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Imran Khan's Leak Of Secret Cable Hurt Pakistan: Court
Former Pakistani pM Imran Khan's leaking of a secret diplomatic cable hurt Pakistan economically, politically and diplomatically, said a detailed court judgment issued on Thursday after a guilty verdict that sentenced him to 10 years in jail.
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Questioned In Jail, Imran Khan's Big Admission In Missing Cypher Case
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan admitted to misplacing a confidential diplomatic cable as he was interrogated by Pakistan's top investigative agency at the Attock Jail in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act
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Swiss Cable Car Breaks Down On 'James Bond' Mountain, 400 Airlifted
Helicopters airlifted about 400 people off the Swiss mountain featured in the 1969 James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" on Thursday after a cable car broke down, stranding them briefly at about 10,000 feet above sea level.
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Icelandic Hacker Says Guilty of Stealing Money From Wikileaks
Sigurdur Thordarsson's plea is the latest twist in the saga of Wikileaks, which released thousands of secret US embassy cables in 2010 and 2011.
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Web companies give first look at secret US government data requests
Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google on Monday began publishing details about the number of secret government requests for data they receive, hoping to show limited involvement in controversial U.S. surveillance efforts.
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WikiLeaks server, a 'relic of our time', sells for $33,000
The server used by pro-transparency organisation WikiLeaks when it released secret documents in 2010 about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a massive trove of diplomatic cables was sold for $33,000 on Thursday.
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China island centenarians claim secret of long life
The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day. But they are apparently among the longest-lived people on earth.
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British spooks secretly tapping fibre-optic cables: Edward Snowden
Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency has gained secret access to fibre-optic cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls, rogue US intelligence technician Ed Snowden has told The Guardian.
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WikiLeaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may claim to be a champion of transparency, but when an Oscar-winning filmmaker wanted to shine a light on his rise to fame after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables on his website, Assange was none too pleased.
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Libyan official says Gaddafi buried at dawn
A Misrata military council official said Moammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide were buried at dawn Tuesday in a secret location, with a few relatives and officials in attendance. In a text message shown to The Associated Press, spokesman Ibrahim Beitalmal said Islamic prayers were read over the bodies. The information could not be indep...
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WikiLeaks' Assange accuses UK newspaper of negligence
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the Guardian on Tuesday, saying the British paper's "negligence" in publishing an encryption key to uncensored files forced his organization's hand in publishing the secret U.S. diplomatic memos.
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US, Germany developing secret spy satellites: WikiLeaks
Germany and the United States are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Tuesday.The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on ...
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'Congress leaders in race to make wild charges'
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) slammed Rahul Gandhi for his "shocking" remarks against Hindu groups, saying there was a "race" in the senior Congress leadership to project Hindus as terrorists."It is shocking that there is a race in the senior Congress leadership to indirectly or directly support jehadi terror and to project Hindus as terror...
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WikiLeaks: Controversy over Rahul's Hindu extremism remarks
A WikiLeaks cable on Rahul Gandhi has provoked a fiery political conspiracy. The cable states that Gandhi told the US Ambassador to India that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The BJP has reacted with anger, accusing Gandhi of weakening India's war against terror with his remarks.In a cable dated August 20...
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Internet Fibre Can Secretly Listen To Users' Conversations: Study
A new study has revealed that fibre optic internet cables can potentially detect and recover nearby conversations by sensing tiny sound vibrations, raising fresh concerns over privacy and cybersecurity.
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Imran Khan's Leak Of Secret Cable Hurt Pakistan: Court
Former Pakistani pM Imran Khan's leaking of a secret diplomatic cable hurt Pakistan economically, politically and diplomatically, said a detailed court judgment issued on Thursday after a guilty verdict that sentenced him to 10 years in jail.
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Questioned In Jail, Imran Khan's Big Admission In Missing Cypher Case
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan admitted to misplacing a confidential diplomatic cable as he was interrogated by Pakistan's top investigative agency at the Attock Jail in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act
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Swiss Cable Car Breaks Down On 'James Bond' Mountain, 400 Airlifted
Helicopters airlifted about 400 people off the Swiss mountain featured in the 1969 James Bond movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" on Thursday after a cable car broke down, stranding them briefly at about 10,000 feet above sea level.
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Icelandic Hacker Says Guilty of Stealing Money From Wikileaks
Sigurdur Thordarsson's plea is the latest twist in the saga of Wikileaks, which released thousands of secret US embassy cables in 2010 and 2011.
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Web companies give first look at secret US government data requests
Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google on Monday began publishing details about the number of secret government requests for data they receive, hoping to show limited involvement in controversial U.S. surveillance efforts.
-
WikiLeaks server, a 'relic of our time', sells for $33,000
The server used by pro-transparency organisation WikiLeaks when it released secret documents in 2010 about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a massive trove of diplomatic cables was sold for $33,000 on Thursday.
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China island centenarians claim secret of long life
The elderly residents of one Chinese county have endured invasion, civil war and famine, and many live in unheated concrete shacks on only a few dollars a day. But they are apparently among the longest-lived people on earth.
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British spooks secretly tapping fibre-optic cables: Edward Snowden
Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency has gained secret access to fibre-optic cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls, rogue US intelligence technician Ed Snowden has told The Guardian.
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WikiLeaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may claim to be a champion of transparency, but when an Oscar-winning filmmaker wanted to shine a light on his rise to fame after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables on his website, Assange was none too pleased.
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Libyan official says Gaddafi buried at dawn
A Misrata military council official said Moammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide were buried at dawn Tuesday in a secret location, with a few relatives and officials in attendance. In a text message shown to The Associated Press, spokesman Ibrahim Beitalmal said Islamic prayers were read over the bodies. The information could not be indep...
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WikiLeaks' Assange accuses UK newspaper of negligence
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange blasted the Guardian on Tuesday, saying the British paper's "negligence" in publishing an encryption key to uncensored files forced his organization's hand in publishing the secret U.S. diplomatic memos.
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US, Germany developing secret spy satellites: WikiLeaks
Germany and the United States are jointly developing secret spy satellites under the guise of a commercial programme despite opposition from France, leaked US diplomatic cables showed on Tuesday.The project, named HiROS, envisions the construction of an undetermined number of high-resolution observation satellites capable of spotting any object on ...
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'Congress leaders in race to make wild charges'
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) slammed Rahul Gandhi for his "shocking" remarks against Hindu groups, saying there was a "race" in the senior Congress leadership to project Hindus as terrorists."It is shocking that there is a race in the senior Congress leadership to indirectly or directly support jehadi terror and to project Hindus as terror...
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WikiLeaks: Controversy over Rahul's Hindu extremism remarks
A WikiLeaks cable on Rahul Gandhi has provoked a fiery political conspiracy. The cable states that Gandhi told the US Ambassador to India that Hindu extremism is a bigger threat to India than the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The BJP has reacted with anger, accusing Gandhi of weakening India's war against terror with his remarks.In a cable dated August 20...
