http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/report-amazon-is-building-the-cias-new-cloud-computing-system/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/report-amazon-is-building-the-cias-new-cloud-computing-system/#comments Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:00:15 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151911 The CIA has reportedly signed a massive cloud computing deal with Amazon, worth up to £450 million over the next 10 years. FCW reports that its sources have told it Amazon will build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, to help it “keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/report-amazon-is-building-the-cias-new-cloud-computing-system/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/how-gmail-took-down-philandering-cia-director-david-petraeus/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/how-gmail-took-down-philandering-cia-director-david-petraeus/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:59 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119575 If you want to get away with something, don’t use Gmail. As David Petraeus and his sexytime lady friend Paula Broadwell learned, thanks to rich data that Google stores from every email, you will be found out. Here’s how it went down in this ironic case: The FBI was investigating Broadwell for some harassing emails [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/how-gmail-took-down-philandering-cia-director-david-petraeus/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/the-cia-had-a-stealthy-insectocopter-flying-40-years-ago/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/the-cia-had-a-stealthy-insectocopter-flying-40-years-ago/#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:00:28 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=90221 Who knows what kind of craziness the CIA is working on now, but back in the 1970s, the goal was to perfect a robotic dragonfly. Now, 40 years later, you can see footage of the prototype in action. The insectocopter’s job would have been to deliver listening bugs used to surveil unsuspecting targets, but the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/the-cia-had-a-stealthy-insectocopter-flying-40-years-ago/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/this-memo-killed-osama-bin-laden/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/this-memo-killed-osama-bin-laden/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:45:13 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=63953 The pen is mightier than the Seal Team 6, or something like that. Read the letter that officially made Bin Laden a dead man, straight off of CIA letterhead. Before the commandos stormed his suburban Pakistani compound, before it was live tweeted, before the advanced imaging, before the war dogs, before the killer shot and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/this-memo-killed-osama-bin-laden/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/anonymous-explains-cia-takedown/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/anonymous-explains-cia-takedown/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:00:48 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=42599 It took a few days, but a representative of Anonymous (as far as there is such a thing) has given Gizmodo a manifesto of sorts, explaining Friday's DDoS attack against the CIA.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/anonymous-explains-cia-takedown/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/anonymous-says-theyve-killed-the-cias-website/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/anonymous-says-theyve-killed-the-cias-website/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:00:18 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=42472 One of Anonymous' Twitter mouthpieces claims the hacker collective just took down CIA.gov. It's definitely down. If this is what it looks like, it could be Anon's greatest hit so far.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/anonymous-says-theyve-killed-the-cias-website/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-secret-spy-toys-of-the-kgb/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-secret-spy-toys-of-the-kgb/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:00:56 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=30537 Ever since watching James Bond as a child, we've all dreamt about spy toys. Secret cameras, hidden guns, that kind of thing. Well here's the real deal, straight out of the KGB vaults.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/the-secret-spy-toys-of-the-kgb/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/drones-mean-the-iraq-war-is-never-over/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/drones-mean-the-iraq-war-is-never-over/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:30:25 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=11129 Today, the US president said every soldier in Iraq is coming home, leading many to believe The War Is Over. Except it's not. Getting humans out of there is great, but the fact is war today doesn't need humans at all.]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/drones-mean-the-iraq-war-is-never-over/feed/ 1