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recent bookmarks from jmTurkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export - The Drive2020-07-17T20:05:12+00:00
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34204/turkey-now-has-a-swarming-quadcopter-suicide-drone-that-it-could-export
jmIt seems very possible that, in addition to providing these improved Kargu [drones] to the Turkish armed forces, STM could also seek to export them, proliferating this capability further around the world. STM has already said that it has received serious inquires about the Kargu series from at least three unnamed potential foreign customers. Turkey, as a whole, has become a powerhouse of drone development and production, employing larger types to great effect in Syria and Libya just this year.
This is precisely the type of weapon we have been warning about for years now. The fact that it is already here and potentially exportable should be yet another wake-up call to the level of threat low-end drones pose to U.S. and allied forces, as well as domestic infrastructure and VIPs.
"I argue all the time with my Air Force friends that the future of flight is vertical and it's unmanned," U.S. Marine General Kenneth McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said at an event hosted by the Middle East Institute last week. "I'm not talking about large unmanned platforms, which are the size of a conventional fighter jet that we can see and deal with, as we would any other platform."
"I'm talking about the one you can go out and buy at Costco right now in the United States for a thousand dollars, four quad, rotorcraft or something like that that can be launched and flown," he continued. "And with very simple modifications, it can make made into something that can drop a weapon like a hand grenade or something else."
]]>drones war terrorism ai autonomous scary kargu kerkes turkey stmhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2e3c0b19c047/BAD TRAFFIC: Sandvine’s PacketLogic Devices Used to Deploy Government Spyware in Turkey and Redirect Egyptian Users to Affiliate Ads?2018-03-09T15:56:18+00:00
https://citizenlab.ca/2018/03/bad-traffic-sandvines-packetlogic-devices-deploy-government-spyware-turkey-syria/
jmThis report describes our investigation into the apparent use of Sandvine/Procera Networks Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices to deliver nation-state malware in Turkey and indirectly into Syria, and to covertly raise money through affiliate ads and cryptocurrency mining in Egypt.
Shame on these vendors.]]>egypt espionage infrastructure turkey syria procera dpi malware hacking sandvinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1984ee78e092/DNS results now being manipulated in Turkey2014-03-31T08:49:08+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7492000
jmturkey twitter dpi dns opendns google networking filtering surveillance proxying packets udphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e014bcbe14a6/Tor Bridge Relays2014-03-24T10:22:49+00:00
https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges.html.en
jmBridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public list of them, even if your ISP is filtering connections to all the known Tor relays, they probably won't be able to block all the bridges. If you suspect your access to the Tor network is being blocked, you may want to use the bridge feature of Tor. The addition of bridges to Tor is a step forward in the blocking resistance race. It is perfectly possible that even if your ISP filters the Internet, you do not require a bridge to use Tor. So you should try to use Tor without bridges first, since it might work.
]]>tor privacy turkey bridging networking tor-bridges twitter filtering blocking censorshiphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3cad725cd377/Online censorship now bordering on the ridiculous in Turkey - Reporters Without Borders2011-04-29T20:04:42+00:00
http://en.rsf.org/turkey-online-censorship-now-bordering-on-29-04-2011,40194.html
jmvia:mala repression internet turkey censorship filtering false-positiveshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5decbddf835a/