Forensic Architecture

Forensic Architeture is an interesting research project analyzing target sites of drone strikes from publicly available information. They remodel and reconstruct the architectural features of those sites and provide necessary context for human rights violation investigations carried out by UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights (UNSRCT) Ben Emmerson.

NROL-39: Release the Kraken

A kraken devouring the earth captioned “Nothing is beyond our reach” is an official NRO spy satellite mission patch … you can’t make this shit up.

NROL-39 Payload Container (Source: United Launch Alliance via ODNI)
NROL-39 Payload Container (Source: United Launch Alliance via ODNI)
NROL-39 Mission Patch (Source: NASA Space Flight Forum)
NROL-39 Mission Patch (Source: NASA Space Flight Forum)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update:

Arstechnica has something about this as well. 🙂

NROL-39 - Know Your Enemy
NROL-39 – Know Your Enemy 😛 (Source: Arstechnica Forum)

Unsafe Chrome Sometimes Necessary

In my work – every now and then – I found myself in need of a browser with reduced security checks (mainly to gloss over cross domain XMLHttpRequests and SSL certificate violations) for testing purposes. I didn’t want to take the risk and use my main browser session with these settings, so I made me a script (also available as a Gist). 🙂

Tip:
If you use oh my ZSH you can save this file in 

~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/chrome-unsafe/chrome-unsafe.plugin.zsh

and add “chrome-unsafe” to your list of used plugins in 

~/.zshrc