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Cyberwars: Massive Government Surveillance Uncovered!

by storiesbywilliams on June 8, 2013 in Cyber, Issues, News and tagged adam harvey, AOL, apple, cameras, CIA, domestic surveillance, domestic wiretapping, drone strikes, drones, facebook, fbi, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, GCHQ, george w bush, google, government spying, government surveillance, microsoft, nsa, obama, PalTalk, partiot act, PRISM, silicon valley, Skype, sousveillance, spying, stealth wear, steve mann, surveillance, telecommunications companies, UAVs, verizon, War on Terror, warrantless wiretapping, Yahoo, youtube

On Friday, Washington DC found itself embroiled in controversy as revelations were made about the extent to which US authorities have been spying on Americans in the last six years. This news came on the heels of the announcement that the federal government had been secretly cataloging all of Verizon’s phone records. No sooner had […]

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Drone Wars: New Promises, Same Problems

by storiesbywilliams on May 25, 2013 in Issues, News, Technology and tagged Afghanistan, Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), bloomberg businessweek, bush administration, CIA, constitution, drone death toll, drone strikes, drones, executive powers, human rights, infographic, international law, new york times, nsa, obama administration, Pakistan, somalia, UAVs, US military, War on Terror, yemen

The practice of using UAV’s as part of a targeted strategy in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen has become so frequent that its come to characterize the Obama administration’s handling of the “War on Terror”. Reaction to this policy has been increasingly critical, due in no small part to unanswered questions surrounding civilian death tolls […]

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Hacker Wars: Hacker Breaches U.S. Army Database

by storiesbywilliams on May 3, 2013 in Cyber, News and tagged boston bombing, chinese hackers, CIA, cyberwarfare, dams, hacker, homeland security, hydroelectric dams, intrusion, national inventory of dams (NID), terrorism, us army corps of engineers

It appears that the ongoing campaign of cyber warfare has claimed yet another victim, once again a government institution. In the latest in a long series of institutions and organizations plagued by cyber crime, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that back in January, a hacker compromised a U.S. Army database that holds sensitive […]

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Revengers Attack!

by storiesbywilliams on March 14, 2013 in Missions, superheroes, the revengers and tagged alien technology, CIA, mercenaries, nsa, revenger missions, secret government facility, security, super powers, superhero abilities, superhero league, superheroes, the revengers

It’s time, my fellow superheroes! We have the location of the Storehouse that contains the answers to the Tyrene Code, the hiding place of a strange device – possibly alien in origin – that can convey superhuman powers on an individual. We knew that this mission would take us places we might not want to […]

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The Safehouse: A Revenger Mission Update!

by storiesbywilliams on March 9, 2013 in Missions, superheroes, the revengers and tagged alien technology, CIA, man of mystery, nsa, super human, super human abilities, superheroes, superpowers, the revengers

It’s come to this, my fellow Revengers! We know where the answers to the Tyrene Code lies, even though we appear to be missing a key piece. After assembling the other paintings that make up the Tyrene collection and speaking to my source, we have come up with some theories regarding what’s this might all […]

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The Informant: A Revenger Mission Update

by storiesbywilliams on March 6, 2013 in Missions, superheroes, the revengers and tagged Alien, assassin, CIA, mi6, nsa, revenger missions, spies, super powers, superhero abilities, superheroes, supervillians, the revengers, wetwork

And we’re back from our meeting with my NSA source. And as usual, I have some good news and bad news. I suppose it all depends on how you look at it. And for our mutual friend and colleague, who happened to be on site when it happened, it was certainly shocking. Perhaps I should […]

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Drone Wars!

by storiesbywilliams on January 18, 2013 in News, Technology and tagged Advanced Robotics Systems Engineering Lab, antiterrorism, CIA, darpa, drone wars, drones, future tech, obama administration, Predator, reaper, senate intelligence commitee, uav, us army, us navy, War on Terror, white house, wired magazine

That’s the crux of Timothy Chung’s research, an assistant professor in the Systems Engineering department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. For the most part, he and the Advanced Robotics Systems Engineering Lab (ARSENL) have been working on a way to construct a series of low-cost, lightweight autonomous flying vehicles known as Aerial […]

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Data Miners Published!

by storiesbywilliams on January 13, 2013 in News, Novels and tagged amazon kindle, CIA, Data Miners, detective, digital age, ebook, fbi, hackers, hacking, information age, Internet, kosovo war, lulu books, self-published author, smashwords, suspense, techno thriller, terrorism

It’s finally happened. After three years of writing, editing and constant picking, I finally got around to pushing Data Miners through publication! As you can see, I decided to go with the black and green cover, which I feel highlights the lines of code best. And I also made sure there’d be print on the […]

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What does Osama’s death mean (part II)?

by storiesbywilliams on May 4, 2011 in News and tagged Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, army, CIA, civil war, Coalition, death, insurgency, invaders, invasion, Iraq, Karzai, Kurds, Middle East, occupation, Osama, Osama's death, Pashtun, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey, US, war, War on Terror

What is to be done? Well for starters, the US and its coalition allies should withdraw from Afghanistan. If history has taught us anything, its that occupations are a losing battle, especially in places like Afghanistan. That country has made a name for itself grinding up invaders and spitting them back out. It’s mountainous terrain, […]

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What does Osama’s death mean?

by storiesbywilliams on May 3, 2011 in News and tagged 9/11, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, CIA, controversies, foreign policy, Guantanamo Bay, history, international, international policy, international relations policy, interrogation, Iraq, Middle East, Osama bin Laden, Osama's death, Pakistan, politics, relations, Russia, terrorism, torture, War on Terror

I did not start this blog with the intention of getting into politics. There are few things more subjective and divisive than where one stands on various issues, political parties, or where they fall in the big spectrum. However, once in awhile something comes along and you just have to take to whatever forum you […]

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