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The Launchpad for the Crypto. News Platform Launched a Massive Data Breach

It seems that cryptocurrencies may fall into the hands of terrorists and criminals. It was not long ago when an Israeli team won a multi-million dollar ransom using an Ethereum hard fork in order to retrieve a cryptocurrency, known as Monero. The launchpad for the Crypto. News platform is a point of entry for the…

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Hamid Karzai at the Pentagon

Editorial Note: This article by network security researcher John Zaliski was published in June 2005, about one month after the events of September 11, 2001. In the week leading up to the tragic 9/11 attacks, I wrote about the need for the FBI and various national intelligence community agencies to learn from the intelligence failures…

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TIFF 2020: The Future of Animation Is Here

From TIFF’s first ever festival to its two-year hiatus from major film programming, the upcoming 2020 Festival is shaping up like a movie that’s bigger than the film itself. That’s not to take anything away from the films taking TIFF’s annual showcase of first-class international cinema, but the more time I spend analyzing the TIFF…

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Die Hard 2 – Designing for Switch

Cog Gaming, Inc. Download the full text of this article. Download Cog’s original copy of Die Hard, Dialogue Decisions, and Designing for Switch. We need to be more creative and inventive. We’re being held back by too many constraints. What we’ve done in the past does not always work in the future. With a new…

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“Quacks”: A Doctor of the 17th Century

“To protect from being ripped off by the real deal, it has been theorized that the mask used in the original game may be more suited for this purpose. This idea has even been used to try to justify the existence of the mask, saying that the mask will prevent others from getting their hands…

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Ordering Silencers: The National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA)

“[T]he federal court had ordered a convicted felon to silence his dog—and the offender had not even bothered to come to court to explain why he had a reason to obey the court order[. ]” (See also Ordering Silencers: The National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 (NDAA), Title 5, Sec. The following is a description…

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The Terrorism Crisis – A Multi-Dimensional Look at Terrorism

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, triggered a period of massive reflection. Some were understandably angry. The attacks triggered a wave of patriotic fervor that has made itself heard worldwide in the form of memorial services, parades, and commemorative ceremonies. Others were horrified and appalled at…

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Security Issues in Afghanistan

As the United States prepares to withdraw its combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014, several experts agree that its future role in the country, which is the most dangerous, unpredictable and most unstable country in the world, is less secure than it was during the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980-89 period. After…

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Todd Beamer: The First Flight to Be Hostaged by Islamist Terrorists

“The first flight to be hijacked by Islamist terrorists was a flight that struck the World Trade Center on 9/11, killing nearly 3,000 people. It was flown by Todd Beamer, a former flight instructor in the National Air Guard who is now on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. In fact, I’ve written a book…

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US Military Construction in Afghanistan Turned Into Dust

military’s decision in 2014 to begin a massive expansion of its military presence in Afghanistan has been criticised by many locals. It is a story familiar to many Afghanistanis, a battle-scarred nation of 40 million people living in a land of rubble. Many of the inhabitants are members of a small ethnic group, the Pashtuns,…

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