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8th March 2003 Archive

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  • Drp yr WMDs now plse! – debunking Iraqi text psyops

    No carrier

    As we already noted on Monday, Pentagon-inspired leaks suggesting that the US will send bogus SMS text messages to Iraq's generals defy any plausibility, but that hasn't stopped the media here from repeating them incredulously. "Imagine Iraqi commanders getting misleading text messages on their cell phones," burbled AP, in a …

    Data Networking 8 Mar 2003, 00:52

  • Judges decry DoJ perjury in Net-porn crackdown

    FBI zeal may ruin major KP raid

    Overzealous FBI agents may have ruined one of the biggest raids of Internet child porn traders by lying on affidavits to obtain search warrants against the suspects. The FBI hounded down members of a Yahoo! perv discussion group called "Candyman" using email addresses to trace them. Unfortunately, the agents claimed that …

    Music and Media 8 Mar 2003, 01:23

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