#u.s. central command

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U.S. Central Command publishes a "fact check" to the lies in the Iranian media

1. No American soldiers were killed.

2. No U.S. Navy vessels were damaged.

3. The property damage was minimal and did not affect operational capability.

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Pentagon Accidentally Exposes Web-Monitoring Operation

Anyone with a free AWS account could have accessed the data, which was stored on three cloud-based storage servers.

Building YOUR Social Graph

DOD was reportedly collecting BILLIONS of public internet posts from social media, news sites, and web forums and storing them on Amazon S3 repositories. But it neglected to make those storage servers private. So anyone with a free Amazon AWS account could browse and download the data, according to Chris Vickery, a security researcher at UpGuard.

Vickery noticed the problem in September. "The data exposed in one of the three buckets is estimated to contain at least 1.8 billion posts of scraped internet content over the past 8 years," UpGuard said in a Friday report.

Much of the data was scraped from news sites, web forums, and social media services such as Facebook and Twitter. The information includes content relating to Iraqi and Pakistani politics and ISIS, but also social media posts made by Americans.

Why the Defense Department was collecting this information isn't clear. But it certainly raises eyebrows at a time when concerns persist about US surveillance programs.

"U.S. Central Command has used commercial off-the-shelf and web-based programs to support public information gathering, measurement and engagement activities of our online programs on public sites,"

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America is Israel's bitch

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