Following Up, Part 2. Down The Rabbit Hole: Arms Exports And Qaddafi's Cluster Bombs

Over the next few days, At War will try something different, and allow readers to look over our shoulders on an unusual reporting and verification adventure, and to journey with us on the follow-up on the attacks with cluster munitions in Misurata, Libya. Ready for a tour of some of the ins-and-outs of conflict reporting in the Internet Age? Then come along for a bit of a ride.

Following Up, Part 2. Down the Rabbit Hole: Arms Exports and Qaddafi's Cluster Bombs

Backlink: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/following-up-part-ii-down-the-rabbit-hole-arms-exports-and-qaddafis-cluster-bombs/?partner=rssnyt&emc;=rss

Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

If this image is to be believed—and I have no reason not to, other than that I found it on the internet—the rebel squadrons behind Anonymous (attn. "news" hacks - that would be an entirely different group from Wikileaks and/or Wikipedia) are about to change their approach. So far, as we've witnessed, they have been launching point-and-click distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at companies perceived as the enemies of Wikileaks. Those targets included Mastercard, Paypal, and Visa (companies that froze donation funding), and Amazon (which denied hosting services). The new approach suggests more sophisticated thinking. This new mission, apparently, is to actually read the cables Wikileaks has published and find the most interesting bits that haven't been publicized yet, then publicize them.

Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

Backlink: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/s3AQPMcrTvY/anonymous-stops-drop.html