NBC News is reporting that retired Marine Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, the former second highest ranking officer in the US military, is currently under investigation for leaking classified information about Stuxnet, the US-Israeli computer virus which sabotaged an Iranian nuclear facility in...
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For 21 months, Sigurdur "Siggi" Thordarson was a volunteer for WikiLeaks. For three of those months, he says he was also an FBI informant. After an ill-advised plan to enlist LulzSec and hack the government of Iceland, Wired reports that he...
The US military is in the process of building its own secure 4G wireless network and is also updating its rules of engagement — the guidelines that combat personnel are required to follow when deciding how and when to use force against adversaries — to include new directives dealing with cyberwarfare, according to General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We are...
Acting FCC Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn has sent the epic SoftBank-Sprint-Clearwire deal — the largest to hit regulators since AT&T's proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA — over to her fellow commissioners today, setting up the agency for an approval vote.
Though her tenure will ultimately be brief (assuming nominee Tom Wheeler makes it through the Senate's confirmation process), pressing business across the wireless industry means that Clyburn is going to end up leading the way on some major decisions with long-term implications. The vote — which would give FCC approval to Sprint's purchase of the outstanding stake of Clearwire that it doesn't already own, and to SoftBank's acquisition of Sprint — was made possible as satellite television provider Dish dropped its bids for both Sprint and Clearwire in recent days.
Here's Clyburn's...
Made possible by Dish backing off
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