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Kane Gamble, now 18, was able to gain access to US plans of intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending he was former CIA chief John Brennan, all while Gamble was just 15.
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Kane Gamble, now 18, was able to gain access to US plans of intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending he was former CIA chief John Brennan, all while Gamble was just 15.
For a vivid parable of what is wrong with contemporary discourse and culture - and of what could be right - look no further than last week's Channel 4 News interview of Jordan Peterson, by Cathy Newman. At the time of writing, her half-hour grilling of the Toronto University professor of psychology has clocked up more than 2.3m views on YouTube, and provoked a cacophonous response across social media. So shamefully abusive have many of the attacks on Newman been that Channel 4 announced on Friday that it had called in security specialists.
As the digital temperature rose, Peterson quite rightly intervened on Twitter to stop the abuse: "If you're threatening her, stop. Try to be civilized in your criticism." It is unconscionable that a journalist doing her job should be threatened as Newman has been by "alt-right" idiots, with their pathetic Pepe the frog symbol, juvenile memes and claims that their adversaries have been "rekt".
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An undertaker found the brain at Warwick Hospital. The alarming error was corrected immediately, according to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Human Tissue Authority (HTA).
The data revealed there were 278 serious incidents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 2014 to 2016. Other errors included 89 corpses being damaged due to "human error or system failure" or body parts going missing. There were 13 occasions when organs were found by hospitals after bodies had been released to families.
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Three women employed at a refugee accommodation center in Örnsköldsvik Municipality were discovered to have started intimate relationships with unaccompanied tenants in their teens. The incident was ultimately discovered by the municipality and the police were contacted.
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The anti-migrant sentiment has increased over recent months
The anti-migrant sentiment has increased over recent months
Cottbus, about 120 kilometres southeast of Berlin, has been rocked by violence from refugees and right-wing extremists since the start of this year.
Earlier this week, Brandenburg state police reported that two male Syrian teenagers were arrested under the suspicion of injuring a German teenager in the face with a knife.
The 16-year-old sustained non life-threatening injuries in what started as an altercation between Syrian and German school acquaintances near a tram station.
The incident happened just days after a group of three Syrian asylum seekers, aged 14, 15 and 17 years old, attacked a man and his wife outside a shopping center, according to a police statement. The 15-year-old was handed a "negative residency permit" by authorities, effectively ordering him and his father to leave the city.
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The shooting happened at 4:40pm local time on West 31st Street near Penn Station. Police said three men were injured and rushed to Bellevue Hospital with no life-threatening injuries. No arrests have yet been made.
Paramedics and the police immediately rushed to the scene which is just a stone's throw away from the Empire State Building.
At least one gunman remains on the loose, NBC New York reports, citing police. The shooting appears to have followed some sort of argument.
Reston was discussing voter sentiment with CNN's White House Correspondent Sara Murray on Sunday's 'Inside Politics' show when she made the surprising on-air remark.
"I'm so interested to see how the Russia investigation affects things, because so far, out in these districts when you talk to people about Russia, and that's all we talk about at CNN basically, they say they don't care," Reston said.
Comment: Clearly CNN doesn't care what people want or think and will likely continue to peddle its anti-Russia lies until it fails as a company.
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An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments
An associate professor at Acadia University is facing a growing backlash over incendiary social media comments
Rick Mehta, a psychology professor and advocate of free speech, has commented publicly on a range of controversial issues from decolonization to multiculturalism, prompting both public outcry and support.
While his defenders say his voice is an antidote to political correctness run amok, his critics say his online comments attack marginalized people and perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
The acrimonious debate has spurred a Halifax-based activist to launch a petition demanding his removal from the small-town Nova Scotia university, while a counter-petition is calling for him to stay in the classroom as a beacon of freedom of expression.
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At busy New York City lunch spot Two Forks, owner Michael Kaplan has banned cash to keep the lines moving faster. "With every cash transaction, the payment process was slowing down significantly," he said in an interview with CBS News.
Yet while cash is now barred at the fast-casual restaurant, most customers seem to be embracing the switch.
"I never have cash on me -- I always have my card on me. So for me, it's pretty much easier," said Two Forks customer Alex Yanoff.
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A 56-year-old partygoer at the Night for Freedom alt-right gala was attacked by a protester and taken away in an ambulance late Saturday.
A 56-year-old partygoer at the Night for Freedom alt-right gala was attacked by a protester and taken away in an ambulance late Saturday.
Far-right provocateur Mike Cernovich was inside the event at the FREQNYC nightclub on W. 50th St. when the fisticuffs broke out about 10:30 p.m.
"I saw him hit the old man," said witness Ali Thomas, 24. "One hit. He swung hard. He hit him hard. The old man's head hit the curb."
The 911 caller said initially that the 56-year-old was in cardiac arrest after the fight, according to fire officials. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, officials noted.
Cops arrested the alleged assailant, David Campbell of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, authorities said.
Comment: More from the Telegraph.
British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears
Hayley Dixon
19 January 2018 - 5:44pm
Kane Gamble arrives at the Old Bailey in London, where he will be sentenced for hacking top ranking US officials
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave noted: "He got these people in his control and played with them in order to make their lives difficult.
John Lloyd-Jones QC, prosecuting, said that Gamble founded Crackas With Attitude (CWA) in 2015, telling a journalist: "It all started by me getting more and more annoyed about how corrupt and cold blooded the US Government are so I decided to do something about it."
Mr Lloyd-Jones said that it was a common misconception that the group were hackers when in fact they used "social engineering" to gain access to emails, phones, computers and law enforcement portals.
"It involves manipulating people, invariably call centre or help desk staff, into permitting acts or divulging confidential information," the prosecutor said.
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At first he was denied access to his computers as he could not name Mr Brennan's first pet, but on later calls the handler changed the pin and security questions.
He used similar methods to access Mr Brennan's AOL account and eventually Gamble was able to access his emails, contacts, his iCloud storage account and his wife's iPad remotely.
Former CIA director John Brennan
Gamble, who is now 18, later posted sensitive information on Twitter and Wikileaks and taunted officials about his access, sometimes using the tag #freePalestine and claiming it was because the US Government was "killing innocent people".
Gamble used similar techniques to hack the home broadband of Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and was able listened to his voicemails and send texts from his phone.
He bombarded Mr Johnson and his wife with calls, asking her: "Am I scaring you?" and left messages threatening to "bang his daughter", the court heard.
Around October 2015, when Gamble turned 16, gained access to Mr Giuliano's home accounts by pretending to be the FBI boss and using the information gained he accessed the FBI's Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (Leap).
Mr Lloyd-Jones QC described it as "a gateway providing law enforcement agencies, intelligence groups and criminal justice agencies access to beneficial resources".
This included criminal intelligence and details of police officers and government employees, and Gamble boasted: "This has to be the biggest hack, I have access to all the details the Feds use for background checks."
The FBI had realised that their system was breached and the password was changed, but at one point Gamble managed to change it and regain access by pretending to be Mr Giuliano in a call to the helpdesk.
He used his access to steal and post online personal details of Officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
At the same time he harassed the Giuliano family and people associated with them and bombarded them with calls, meaning that they were forced to seek protection from the intelligence agencies and an armed guard was placed at their home.
Mr Obama's senior science and technology adviser John Holdren had his personal accounts hacked and Gamble passed all of his personal details to an accomplice who used them to make hoax calls to the local police claiming that there was a violent incident at Mr Holdren's house resulting in an armed swat team being deployed.
His eight month reign of chaos was brought to an end in February 2016 after he gained access to the US Department of Justice's network over a number of days, accessing details of 20,000 FBI employees and case files including that on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
The FBI and the US secret service had such concern over the material that he had seen that they immediately called police in the UK and he was arrested at his home.
The Old Bailey also heard that he accessed the private calls and emails of Avril Haines, the White House deputy national security adviser and FBI Special Agent Amy Hess.
In the case of Ms Hess he downloaded films on to her computer, including one called Hackers and V for Vendetta as well as a pornographic title. He changed an equipment list on her computer to a list of derogatory terms.
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence under President Obama, was also targeted and all of his home phone calls were diverted to the Free Palestine Movement.
Vonna Weir Heaton, the former intelligence executive of the US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency had her social media accounts access by Gamble who sent messages pretending to be her.
At one point on an internet chat he said that he had considered not sharing any more information "because it put lives at risk, but then I thought they are killing innocent people every day", the court heard.
Medical experts for the defence argue that he is on the autism spectrum and at the time of his offending had the mental development of a 12 or 13-year-old.
He has no friends to speak off and is closest to his mother Ann, a cleaner who reportedly won a £1.6million lottery jackpot in 1997 but "lost all the money on doomed property deals".
William Harbage QC said that after his arrest he told doctors "it was kind of easy" and that he had little consequences of his actions "in his bedroom on the internet thousands of miles away".
Mr Justice Haddon-Cave will sentence him on a date to be fixed.