Month: December 2010

The US military believes it knows where the leak originated. A soldier, Bradley Manning, 22, has been held in solitary confinement for the last seven months and is facing a court martial in the new year. The former intelligence analyst is charged with unauthorised downloads of classified material while serving on an army base outside Baghdad. He is suspected of taking copies not only of the state department archive, but also of video of an Apache helicopter crew gunning down civilians in Baghdad, and hundreds of thousands of daily war logs from military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like ‘Lady Gaga’ … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing … [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga’s Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history… [I] had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months”

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Droid Life has posted 12 pictures of what it says is the HTC Thunderbolt, a new smartphone that will allegedly be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show next week and which would be Verizon’s first 4G LTE phone.

So is it the real thing? BGR notes that Droid Life is known for its “deep Verizon connections.” See the full set of pictures on Droid Life here.

A video tribute to the legendary Johnny Cash, on his track God’s Gonna Cut You Down, from his 2006 posthumously released album American V: A Hundred Highways.

Directed by Tony Kaye, shot all in black and white, the video features a number of celebrities, including Iggy Pop,Kanye West, Chris Martin, Kris Kristofferson, Patti Smith, Terrence Howard, Flea, Q-Tip, Adam Levine, Chris Rock, Justin Timberlake, Kate Moss, Sir Peter Blake, Sheryl Crow, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Amy Lee, Tommy Lee, the Dixie Chicks, Mick Jones, Sharon Stone, Bono, Shelby Lynne, Anthony Kiedis, Travis Barker, Lisa Marie Presley, Kid Rock, Jay-Z, Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, Corinne Bailey Rae, Johnny Depp, Graham Nash, Brian Wilson, Rick Rubin, Whoopi Goldberg and Owen Wilson.