Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Tuesday 02-17-15

The Feds Unveil Its New Surveillance Tool ‘Memex’, Developed By DARPA To Reveal The Hidden Nature Of The ‘Dark Web’ -

Mac Salvo:  The so-called “dark web” is where the visible Internet – easily accessible by public search engines and web crawlers – ends, and, everything else begins.
The dark web is an unseen iceberg composing more than 95% of the real activity of the web, where databases, password-protected websites, official records from federal, state and local governments, various intranets, messageboards, website archives, forums and vast catalogues of data all reside.
White and black hat hackers, law enforcement agencies and criminal networks all operate there in the shadows.
And now, DARPA, the Pentagon’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has developed a surveillance tool known as “Memex” that can be used to reveal what is hidden on the dark web, and pursue criminal groups of interest – and perhaps control or even kill the dark web for good.
CBS 60 Minutes reported on DARPA’s Memex, interviewing the project’s director and some of the principles involved. Ostensibly, the effort is focused on tracking and stopping sex trafficking… but obviously so much more is part of this secret military surveillance project. Watch the video report here.
Dan Kaufman, the director of information innovation office at DARPA said:
“The easiest way to think about Memex is: How can I make the unseen seen?.”
“Most people on the internet are doing benign and good things,” he continued, “But there are parasites that live on there, and we take away their ability to use the internet against us — and make the world a better place.”
Curtailing the Wild West of the Internet – whether or not it illegal activity is involved – is clearly within the scope of its possible applications.
Leslie Stahl: Why is DARPA looking at sex trafficking?
Chris White (Inventor of Memex): “We see that with human trafficking, the kinds of groups that do human trafficking are often using the proceeds of that to fund other things that are counter to our national security interests. And we also find that people willing to traffic in women are also willing to move drugs and guns, and other sort of contraband.
Chris White: “The internet is much, much bigger than people think. By some estimates Google, Microsoft, Bing, and Yahoo only give us access to around 5% of the content on the Web.”
Author Cassius Methyl raised questions about this secret project’s ominous potential for the future of Internet freedom, noting that it can “probably do a lot more than they say it’s capable of”:
As the Scientific American noted, DARPA has said very little about Memex. What does it tell about a person, a group of people, or a program, when they are secretive and operate in the shadows? Why would a body of people doing benevolent work have to do that? I think keeping up with the projects underway by DARPA is of critical importance. This is where the most outrageous and powerful weapons of war are being developed.
She notes a Scientific American article about Memex:
“DARPA has said very little about Memex and its use by law enforcement and prosecutors to investigate suspected criminals.” and ““Memex”—a combination of the words “memory” and “index” first coined in a 1945 article for The Atlantic—currently includes eight open-source, browser-based search, analysis and data-visualization programs as well as back-end server software that perform complex computations and data analysis.”
http://marketdailynews.com/2015/02/15/the-feds-unveil-its-new-surveillance-tool-memex-developed-by-darpa-to-reveal-the-hidden-nature-of-the-dark-web/2/#sthash.pgyxfUiD.dpuf



Right out of a Jerry D. Young story  (http://www.dwdailybriefing.com/jdy/index.php)

Can Russia control the weather? Climate researcher says CIA fears hostile nations are triggering floods and droughts

  • CIA chiefs fear hostile nations are trying to manipulate the world’s weather

  • Academic has told of mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding

  • CIA is believed to have helped fund a major report into geoengineering


If it seems like it never stops raining, blame the Russians. Or even the North Koreans.
CIA chiefs fear hostile nations are trying to manipulate the world’s weather, a conference heard.
A leading academic has told how he got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding.
Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: ‘Consultants working for the CIA rang and said we’d like to know if someone is controlling the world’s climate would we know about it?

‘Of course they were also asking - if we control someone else’s climate would they then know about it.’
The professor is one of many scientists from around the world are actively looking at manipulating the weather as a way of combating climate change.
Geoengineering techniques range from cloud seeding, in which chemicals are sprayed by planes trigger rainfall, to shooting mirrors into space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth.
Professor Robock told the callers that any attempts to meddle with the weather on a large scale would be detectable.



However, he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual conference in San Jose, that the weather has been weaponised in the past.
During the Vietnam War, US scientists tried to increase rainfall to hamper the enemy’s progress by spraying particles into the clouds.
And the CIA seeded clouds over Cuba ‘to make it rain and ruin the sugar harvest’.
Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding
Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding
Asked how he felt when he got the call, the professor said: ‘Scared.
‘I’d learned of lots of other things the CIA had done that haven’t followed the rules and that wasn’t how I wanted my tax money spent.
‘I think this research has to be open and international, so there isn’t any question of using it for hostile purposes.’
To add to the intrigue, the CIA is believed to have helped fund a major report into geoengineering.
Published last week by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences, the report mentions the ‘US intelligence community’ in its list of sponsors, alongside organisations such as Nasa.
Professor Robock said the CIA had told one of his colleagues it wanted to fund the report, but apparently did not want this fact to be too obvious.
He said: ‘The CIA is a major funder of the National Academies report so that makes me really worried who is going to be in control.’
He added that the tension created by any large-scale meddling in the climate could escalate to such an extent that it would end in all-out war.
The professor said: ‘If one country wants to control the climate in one way, and another doesn’t want it or if they try to shoot down the planes...if there is no agreement it could result in terrible consequences.’ 

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2954933/Can-Russia-control-weather-Climate-researcher-says-CIA-fears-hostile-nations-triggering-floods-droughts.html

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