Il principale consigliere del dottor #Fauci ha violato le prassi sulla gestione dei registri federali sul COVID-19, che hanno minato le operazioni dell'NIH
Negli USA, come in Europa (cfr caso Von der Leyen - #Pfizer) sembra una prassi consolidata (suggerita dalle società di consulenza?) quella di comunicare tramite account privati per sottrarsi a #FOIA e indagini
Please RT for reach: I’m trying to #FOIA records on computer intrusions into DOD systems during first Gulf War (1990), I have a GAO report which gives a high level summary but am looking for more.
Does anyone know what DOD department might have investigated #hacking back then?
Anyone else getting flurries of #FBI#FOIA response emails with broken links or files that you’ve previously been sent with new file names? I’ve gotten 18 emails in the last 24 hours, they’re still coming in. Something is broken.
I made a series of #FOIA requests to the #FBI for records relating to @2600, each request looking at a specific year. After some confusion the following page was released to me that wasn't from any of the years I had requested. Shall we take a look at it? https://archive.org/details/2600-1991-fbi-foia
19 pages of pre-processed #FOIA documents from the #FBI in response to my request for records relating to "PC Cyborg Corporation", a front company used in the first ever #ransomware attack, back in 1989. I have requested further documents are processed. https://archive.org/details/PC-Cyborg-FOIA
"Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that courts take a dim view of delay being used to neuter public attempts to understand how important decisions are made.
'The requesting parties have been practically denied access to the information they are entitled to at law and this court will not abet this conduct through the availability of judicial review,' he wrote in a judgment released Friday."
I love document dumps. Recently, a Defense Department office dropped 2,500 pages in response to one of my #FOIA requests. They provide a pretty revealing – and somewhat startling – look at how the Biden administration struggled to counter a Russian disinformation campaign after the Ukraine invasion.
As I stray closer to the present day in my #FOIA requests this is the first one of these I’ve gotten, from the #FBI. Request was for records on poodlecorp. #hacking#hacker#history
Submitted an #FBI#FOIA for any records relating to Jonathan Joseph James, the first juvenile #hacker incarcerated for #cybercrime in the United States. He went on to commit suicide because he thought he was going to be arrested for involvement in the soupnazi credit card theft gang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James
My attempt to dislodge @ccc related #FOIA documents from the FBI vaults continues, I've reduced the number of the responsive documents I'm requesting to have processed to theoretically shave a few years off of my wait time. #hacker#hacking#history
It only took 7 years, but the Department of Transportation finally confirmed that they use a standard version of Outlook for their email system - and the documentation is public.
This makes forcing them to properly perform #FOIA searches a lot easier
:blobcatcoffee: These Are the Notorious NSA Furby Documents Showing Spy Agency Freaking Out About Embedded AI in Children's Toy
— @404mediaco
"kotaKat, whose interests include furry fandom and infosec, filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA a year ago because he was “bored in a group chat one night” and was discussing the episode"
The #FBI has finally declassified its files on Nikola Tesla, but questions remain.
By: Sarah Pruitt
Updated: June 1, 2023 | Original: May 3, 2018
"What happened to Tesla’s files from there, as well as what exactly was in those files, remains shrouded in mystery—and ripe for conspiracy theories. After years of fielding questions about possible cover-ups, the FBI finally declassified some 250 pages of Tesla-related documents under the Freedom of Information Act [#FOIA] in 2016. The bureau followed up with two additional releases, the latest in March 2018. But even with the publication of these documents, many questions still remain unanswered—and some of Tesla’s files are still missing.
"Three weeks after the Serbian-American inventor’s death, an electrical engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#MIT) was tasked with evaluating his papers to determine whether they contained 'any ideas of significant value.' According to the declassified files, Dr. John G. Trump reported that his analysis showed Tesla’s efforts to be 'primarily of a speculative, philosophical and promotional character' and said the papers did 'not include new sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results.'
"The scientist’s name undoubtedly rings a bell, as John G. Trump was the uncle of the 45th U.S. president, Donald J. Trump. The younger brother of Trump’s father, Fred, he helped design X-ray machines that greatly helped cancer patients and worked on radar research for the Allies during World War II. Donald Trump himself cited his uncle’s credentials often during his presidential campaign. 'My uncle used to tell me about nuclear before nuclear was nuclear,' he once told an interviewer.
"At the time, the FBI pointed to Dr. Trump’s report as evidence that Tesla’s vaunted '#DeathRay' particle beam weapon didn’t exist, outside of rumors and speculation. But in fact, the #USGovernment itself was split in its response to Tesla’s technology. Marc Seifer, author of the biography Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla, says a group of military personnel at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, including Brigadier General L.C. Craigee, had a very different opinion of Tesla’s ideas.
"'Craigee was the first person to ever fly a jet plane for the military, so he was like the John Glenn of the day,' Seifer says. 'He said, ‘there’s something to this—the particle beam weapon is real.’ So you have two different groups, one group dismissing Tesla’s invention, and another group saying there’s really something to it.'
"Then there’s the nagging question of the missing files. When Tesla died, his estate was to go to his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who at the time was the Yugoslav ambassador to the U.S. (thanks to his familial connection with Serbia’s most celebrated inventor). According to the recently declassified documents, some in the FBI feared Kosanovic was trying to wrest control of Tesla’s technology in order to 'make such information available to the enemy,' and even considered arresting him to prevent this.
"In 1952, after a U.S. court declared Kosanovic the rightful heir to his uncle’s estate, Tesla’s files and other materials were sent to Belgrade, Serbia, where they now reside in the Nikola Tesla Museum there. But while the FBI originally recorded some 80 trunks among Tesla’s effects, only 60 arrived in Belgrade, Seifer says. 'Maybe they packed the 80 into 60, but there is the possibility that…the government did keep the missing trunks.'
"For the five-part HISTORY series The Tesla Files, Seifer joined forces with Dr. Travis Taylor, an astrophysicist, and Jason Stapleton, an investigative reporter, to search for these missing files and seek out the truth of the government’s views on the 'Death Ray' particle-beam weapon and Tesla’s other ideas.
"Despite John G. Trump’s dismissive assessment of Tesla’s ideas immediately after his death, the military did try and incorporate #particlebeam weaponry in the decades following World War II, Seifer says. Notably, the inspiration of the 'Death Ray' fueled Ronald Reagan’s #StrategicDefenseInitiative, or 'Star Wars' program, in the 1980s. If the government is still using Tesla’s ideas to power its technology, Seifer explains, that could explain why some files related to the inventor still remain classified.
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"Although some of his more sensitive innovations may still be hidden, Tesla’s legacy is alive and well, both in the devices we use every day, and the technologies that will undoubtedly play a role in our future. 'Tesla is the inventor of #wireless technology. He’s the inventor of the ability to create an unlimited number of wireless channels,' Seifer says of the inventor’s lasting impact. 'So radio guidance systems, #encryption, remote control robots—it’s all based on Tesla’s technology.'"