Letter Never Sent

A 17-year old Austrian lad was able to hack into the Pentagon and accessed ‘sensitive’ information:

But from the computer in his bedroom, Markus was able to get into the most classified Pentagon sites, including the one which details the silos where missiles with multi-megaton warheads are kept.

“Cracking into the Pentagon was child’s play,” said the teenager. “I know my way round the internet.”

Markus, who lived with his mother in Germany for a while when his parents split up, eventually moved into a small flat in Vienna where he now lives alone.

He added: “I don’t know anyone here, apart from my granny, so I surf all night on the internet.”

Thank God for the young. They’re so inventive.

Wow. Bush is sounding more and more like a really scary Big Brother figure. In a commencement speech at Ohio State University, our debauched and stupid leader urged graduating seniors to embrace a “culture of service”.

“Your class and generation understand that the responsibility which begins in your life must extend to your nation,” he said. “And so you will make a culture of service a permanent part of American life.”

He then went on to urge all Americans to heed the call of duty to the Homeland.

More ominously attendees were told not to heckle or disrupt the Fuhrer: “But immediately before class members filed into the giant football stadium, an announcer instructed the crowd that all the university’s speakers deserve to be treated with respect and that anyone demonstrating or heckling would be subject to expulsion and arrest. The announcer urged that Bush be greeted with a “thunderous” ovation.”

So, protest and get arrested. Der Kommissar geht um – oh, oh, oh.

Some good stuff from here and there:

1. New ‘T-ray’ Space Camera Also Sees Through Clothes, Walls
2. Awesome op-ed by Charley Reese: Pre-Emption Is The Word:

   But let’s review now: One, we are in a global war, although the war looks like a one-person marriage at the moment; two, the rest of the world is on notice that they are either with us or against us (neutrality has no place in the Bush Doctrine); three, the rest of the world is also on notice that we might use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear country; and four, now the rest of the world is on notice that we will strike without warning, even against nations that think they are at peace with us.

3. ‘US had role in Taleban prisoner deaths’: US SOLDIERS took part in the torture of Taleban prisoners and may have had a role in the “disappearance” of around 3,000 men in Mazar-i-Sharif in north-west Afghanistan, according to a new documentary.
4. Iraq strike likely by winter: The Bush administration needs to get busted on corruption charges.
5. Gulf buildup: U.S. has doubled troops in Kuwait this year
6. Army unit to bar women: I guess women aren’t quite ruthless enough to be hired killers. Plus there’s that whole homoerotic male-bonding thing that goes on when men kill together.
7. Via Antiwar.com, The FBI Unleashed.
8. U.S. sends spy drones into Iran.

Interesting article on the Top 10 List of Police Database Abuses:

Your address, telephone number, Social Security number, date of birth, criminal record — all this information and more can be accessed by police officers if they have basic information about you. Not surprisingly, some cops abuse their privilege and use their database access for less-than-honorable reasons. This week on “CyberCrime” we show you how some corrupt cops used police databases to harass exes and even get telephone numbers of pretty girls they see in cars.