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WikiLeaks #Highrise Shows CIA Tool to Redirect Texts By Edward Szall WikiLeaks #Highrise Shows CIA Tool to Redirect Texts July 13, 2017 WikiLeaks has released documents showing an alleged CIA hacking tool called ‘Highrise’ which enables the redirection of SMS messages from Android mobile devices (WASHINGTON, DC) An alleged CIA hacking tool allowing SMS messages to be redirected is the latest covert spy device unveiled by WikiLeaks. Named ‘Highrise,’ the tool is the latest disclosed in a series of leaks named ‘Vault7,’ which WikiLeaks claims come from within the CIA. Described in a statement from WikiLeaks as an Android application,...

When I visit certain websites, Target.com, eBay.com, and Hertz.com, I am redirected (don't know if that is the proper term) within a couple of seconds to a Yahoo search page. I also discovered this morning that the same thing happens when I visit Google.com and wait about 30 seconds. I have searched for solutions to this problem and have not found a solution which seems to address this problem specifically. Last week I did find a suggestion to try a list of different things including: system restore, which wouldn't work, and running my Trend Micro Antivirus and Housecall in safe...

Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We’re talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate steps to sample what we click on before they send us on to our real destination. This has been going on for a long time and is slowly starting to build into something of a redirect hell on the Web.And it has a price.The overhead that’s already here There’s already plenty of redirect overhead in places where you don’t really think about...

Inside our firewall, getting errors trying to connect to mapquest. Firefox indicates a redirect loop in play that cannot be resolved, IE gives a page cannot be displayed error. Anyone else getting problems when trying to connect to Mapquest?

Noticed this when performing a keyword search for "Free Republic": Welcome to the home for Right Wing Nuts "Internet headquarters for archconservatives and reactionaires ... Free Republic. Home | Forum | Log In | Register ... Already a Member? Log into your Free Republic account. Click here. ..." Is this something new, this redirect to FR from this URL? I haven't noticed it before, and apologies if this is already common knowledge here.

Video system can redirect stray missiles 12:31 27 September 02 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition The US Navy has developed a new missile guidance technology that it hopes will cut the number of casualties caused when its missiles are wrongly targeted or go astray. The smartest bombs still hit the wrong targets Photo: CORBIS The technology allows a commander to redirect a missile that appears to be heading for the wrong target, as a result of malfunction, or because the target moved or was wrongly identified in the first place. This happens all too often. During the Kosovo conflict...