Posts tagged with ‘military’

Watch a US military laser gun shoot a drone out of the sky

The US military has been experimenting pretty heavily lately with laser cannons that can use the power of lasers to pew pew missiles and aircraft straight out of the sky with a quickness.

Vice documentary of the day: ‘Ground Zero: Insurgents vs the Malian Army’

Pretty insightful Vice documentary about the conflict in Mali.

Morning short films: “Soldati (Soldiers)” by Andrea Sacco and Fabio Bascetta

Watch a Chinese hacker launch a cyberattack on the US in real time

Security firm Mandiant has detailed the exploits of a Chinese cyber espionage group it calls APT1. Mandiant claims to have evidence that APT1 has stolen “hundreds of terabytes of data” from 141 American organizations. Evidence that includes this video of an elite Chinese hacker in action.

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So the South Korean air force did a parody of ‘Les Miserables’

Needs more Kim Jong Un.

Iran released decoded video footage from their captured American spy drone

When an American spy drone went down and captured by the Iranian government last year, the Pentagon didn’t seem worried at all, saying that any information would be too damaged and/or impossible to decode, so whatevs Iran, take the stupid broken drone.

But this footage looks exactly like American drone video over Afghanistan, something Iran would find incredibly difficult to fake. This isn’t information the Iranians could actually get any use out of, but if this broken, “unhackable” drone can have its secrets teased out by Iran, it can happen again.

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