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Which he did, according to this article.

I own my iPhone

No no you don't. Aooke have pretty much been anti-consumer for some time with EFF and others trying to keep the option of jailbreaking legal (Its still illegal on your iPad)

This is back from 2010 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/ The PDF about Apples responce and basically jailbreaking does this,

"Crashes & instability
Malfunctioning & safety
Invasion of privacy
Exposing children to age-inappropriate content
Viruses & malware
Inability to update software
Cellular network impact
Piracy of developers’ applications
Instability of developers’ applications
Increased support burden
Developer relationships
The Apple/iPhone brand
Limitation on ability to innovate"

It also says your breaking Licence agreements and copyright infringement too as well as well as DMCA anti-circumvention

Boycott Apple products...Its not like there are mass of better value alternatives.

California (and New York) are hemorrhaging population and business. Often (but not only) heading to Texas according to numerous articles and analysis over the past year as well as the last census.

Texas appears to be the largest recipient of the migrations but so are Arizona and Florida. Coincidentally Texas was also named the 2012 Top State for business. Every few weeks I see more and more business headlines of companies (namely tech) moving to or starting a branch in Texas such as Apple, Facebook, PayPal, Catepillar and so on

There had been, however, some controversy over the years of TX Gov Perry's use of the Texas Enterprise Fund to woo companies to relocate. While the deal-landing results appear to be evident, some worry about the taxpayer cost, total incentive packages, and net gain of these deals. The fund seems to be perfectly suited to situations like this, where California tax laws cause some turmoil thereby increasing the opportunity to woo away industry. Recently Texas AG Greg Abbott has also been advertising to New Yorkers to move to Texas on account of gun control issues.

I wonder how long Texas can remain "Texas" if it becomes stuffed with people who are accustomed to living like Californians and New Yorkers.

It's been done. The appliances are available commercial off-the-shelf ready to install in the network for government users. They're signed, they're valid, and nobody will answer the fucking question about what damned CA did it.

And criminals, not being very bright...don't notice or report it.

It's sold by at least one company

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/

And really, who's goign to stop it? If the government gets a national security letter for the private CA key or compels production of a signed certificate for a domain -- it's good game comrade without using an HTTPS observatory.

The problem is you don't understand the differnce between government-controlled, and government-regulated that could be forced to comply with a court order.

Beyond that -- have you *LOOKED* at a browser CA list? I'm pretty sure that if I had a million bucks to blow I could find one of those organizations to get an infiltrator into...

So, let's fix your "it's not clear". It's commercialized and available for purchase.

The biggest security hole is the company itsself.
They have complied in the past and they will so again.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/megaupload-investigation-roots/

Kim Schmitz himself(aka Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Jim Tim Vestor, aka kimble...I kid you not) caved in under pressure from the Feds and ratted out on the German hacker/cracker/warez/phreaker scene. In a double twist of irony he cooperated with Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth who in turn was a bit of a jackal.
The self-styled His Royal Highness King Kimble the First, Ruler of the Kimpire was convicted of embezzlement. Which hardly is a hacktivist crime. More of a sleazebag move.
I wouldn't argue that the Kiwi raid on him wasn't all kinds of wrong. But that doesn't make him trustworthy either. For a cause célèbre I would honestly look elsewhere.
This guy has shady written all over himself and I'd be careful about trusting him. Especially when entrusting him with evidence for things that carry a hefty penalty(justified or no).

Spitler: I just harvested 197 email addresses of iPad 3G subscribers there should be many more weev: did you see my new project?

Auernheimer: no

Spitler: I’m stepping through iPad SIM ICCIDs to harvest email addresses if you use someones ICCID on the ipad service site it gives you their address

Auernheimer: loooool thats hilarious HILARIOUS oh man now this is big media news is it scriptable? arent there SIM that spoof iccid?

Spitler: I wrote a script to generate valid iccids and it loads the site and pulls an email

Auernheimer: this could be like, a future massive phishing operation serious like this is valuable data we have a list a potential complete list of AT&T iphone subscriber emails



Spitler: I hit fucking oil

Auernheimer: loooool nice

Spitler: If I can get a couple thousand out of this set where can we drop this for max lols?

Auernheimer: dunno i would collect as much data as possible the minute its dropped, itll be fixed BUT valleywag i have all the gawker media people on my facecrook friends after goin to a gawker party

At one point the two discussed the legal risks of what they were allegedly doing:

Spitler: sry dunno how legal this is or if they could sue for damages

Auernheimer: absolutely may be legal risk yeah, mostly civil you absolutely could get sued to fuck

At the same time, others on the IRC chat allegedly discussed the possibility of shorting AT&T’s stock.

Pynchon: hey, just an idea delay this outing for a couple days tommorrow short some at&t stock then out them on tuesday then fill your short and profit

Rucas: LOL

Auernheimer: well i will say this it would be against the law for ME to short the att stock but if you want to do it go nuts

Spitler: I dont have any money to invest in ATT



Auernheimer: if you short ATT dont let me know about it

Spitler: IM TAKIN YOU ALL DOWN WITH ME SNITCH HIGH EVERYDAY

In the wake of news stories about the breach, they allegedly discussed their failure to report the vulnerability to a “full disclosure” mailing list, as well as the opportunity to push their Goetse Security business as a result of the breach:

Nstyr: you should’ve uploaded the list to full disclosure maybe you still can

Auernheimer: no no that is potentially criminal at this point we won

Nstyr: ah

Auernheimer: we dropepd the stock price

Auernheimer: lets not like do anything else we fucking win and i get to like spin us as a legitimate security organization

Sound like some classy fellows there. It's a shame for Swartz that he's being lumped in with this guy. At some point, I hope Slashdot pulls its collective head out of its own ass and realizes that these aren't black and white issues and stops comparing them to things that were like the Civil Rights Movement. Auernheimer: "this could be like, a future massive phishing operation serious like this is valuable data we have a list a potential complete list of AT&T iphone subscriber emails" ... yeah, no criminal intent there.

Are backdoors like with hushmail (at least technically) possible?

Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/hushmail-to-war

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai

Are backdoors like with hushmail (at least technically) possible?

Hushmail To Warn Users of Law Enforcement Backdoor: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/hushmail-to-war

Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai

The article links to an example of a guy (Mat Honan) who had his accounts hacked into:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/

But as far as I can tell from reading that article, no password was every compromised. Most of the passwords were reset using other information (credit card numbers, billing address, etc.), and tricking clueless phone support people. So why use this example as a reason to get rid of passwords, when the passwords weren't really the problem in the first place?

I don't own a cell phone. Various online services such as google keep badgering my to associate my account with a cell phone number. I can't, don't want to, and don't need to. Their desire to do this is a desire for their own convenience, not mine. If some other user writes his google password on a post-it and then loses the post-it, google wants a method by which it's easy for google to retain the guy as a customer by giving the guy back his password. They want to do this with zero labor cost to them. They don't want to do it by email because if the guy's forgotten his gmail password he can't access his gmail. All of this has to do with what google wants, not with what I want.

TFA says, "Passwords are a cheap and easy way to authenticate web surfers, but they're not secure enough for today's internet, and they never will be," with a link to this article by someone named Mat Honan. Honan says:

You have a secret that can ruin your life. It's not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters--maybe six of them if you're careless, 16 if you're cautious--that can reveal everything about you. Your email. Your bank account. Your address and credit card number. Photos of your kids or, worse, of yourself, naked.

Um, no. I don't use the same password for all these different things. Anyone who does is a fool. And no, I don't post naked pictures of myself online, with or without password protection.

No matter how complex, no matter how unique, your passwords can no longer protect you. Look around. Leaks and dumps--hackers breaking into computer systems and releasing lists of usernames and passwords on the open web--are now regular occurrences.

No. This guy obviously has no clue. Web sites typically store a hash of your password, not the password itself. And if you don't reuse the same password for multiple important accounts, there are no major ramifications from having your password for, say, facebook released into the wild, because it's not the same as your password for your bank account, etc. If someone uses a single password for every single account they have, then they're asking for trouble. That's their problem, not mine, and it's not a generic problem with passwords, it's a specific problem with the insecure way those people use passwords.

This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour. My Apple, Twitter, and Gmail passwords were all robust--seven, 10, and 19 characters, respectively, all alphanumeric, some with symbols thrown in as well--but the three accounts were linked, so once the hackers had conned their way into one, they had them all.

What the hell does he mean by "linked?" This makes no sense.

Imagine that I want to get into your email. Let's say you're on AOL. All I need to do is go to the website and supply your name plus maybe the city you were born in, info that's easy to find in the age of Google. With that, AOL gives me a password reset, and I can log in as you.

If AOL does this, then AOL is a bunch of idiots. This has nothing to do with the security of passwords in general.

How do our online passwords fall? In every imaginable way: They're guessed, lifted from a password dump, cracked by brute force, stolen with a keylogger, or reset completely by conning a company's customer support department.

Your password can't be guessed or cracked by brute force if you pick a good password. It can't be "lifted from a password dump" if whoever you have the account with stores it in hashed form. If it's being stolen through a keylogger on your computer, then you have a bigger problem than the insecurity of your gmail account. Social engineering methods are the hardest to protect against, but the damage is mitigated if you don't reuse the same password for multiple high-stakes accounts

“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home. Maybe it's a little early- maybe the time is not quite yet- but those other worlds, promising untold opportunities, beckon. Just now, there a great many mattters that are pressing in on us that compete for the money it takes to send people to other worlds. Should we solve those problems first, or are they a reason for going? Our planet and our solar system are surrounded by a New World ocean: the depths of space. It is no more impassable than the last.” - Carl Sagan

This plane uses a tremendous amount of electricity, see: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/01/boeing-787-electric-fire-grounding/
The li-ion batteries are from a company in Japan, but I wonder where they were manufactured. In the past, subcontractors outside Japan have done shoddy jobs making batteries, such as replacing mylar with paper. Once it's sealed up, how do you test it? Additionally, these batteries use cobolt oxide and are even more prone to overheating than tradition li-ion batteries. The batteries took a long time to certify.

A notorious SwissAir crash over the Atlantic was due to an overheated electrical bus. In a rush to get gambling devices onto seat backs, the airline had gone with a system that required a full computer for each display, which required more power than a more centralized system.

This is where technical considerations and political considerations collide. The NSA has high-end capabilities, but is a spy agency that has always been explicitly prohibited from targeting the US. Just as we created the FBI to police ourselves vs. the CIA to police the world. Here is an article on the subject. Personally I do not think we should turn the NSA loose on ourselves. But admittedly in the case of computer security it can be extremely difficult to even determine whether a threat is foreign or domestic.

and you'll note that none of the recent incidents with the 787 are traceable to the engine.

Not if you define recent as the last two weeks, where the problems have really escalated. But there have been two engine incidents in the last 8 months, as well as one incident involving the same engine on a 747-800.

But yeah, they tried to crash an A380 by means of engine explosion.

787 engines on the other hand don't need an explosion to self-destuct.

Due to the fact that they didn't DOUBLE the user count in response to " due to the holidays and snapping lots of photos of family and their holiday preparations and such".

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/09/instagram-use-exploding/ for the period of 03-2012 till 09-2012. That is not a "holiday run up". And, even if people were snapping fewer photos - they wouldn't TERMINATE the accounts, just stop using...

... by that guy who just wouldn't shut up or is just obnoxiously loud, I'll just leave this here.

The indictment is the legal document that says what he was charged with, no more, no less. I don't understand why you would have an issue with a review of the actual charges against him, since many here (and elsewhere) are trying to portray this as a Turing-like harassment by the government (which it is not).

He (allegedly) installed his own computer into an MIT wiring closet, took repeated steps to overcome MIT's efforts to stop him, hid from security cameras, and violated the terms of use for accessing the computer system. Since you prefer journalisim, take a look at this Wired article - it details the charges against him.

Are you also entitled to free internet, free Office software, free MS SQL CALs, free vSphere enterprise licenses?

Yes, yes, no, somewhat.
(although "free" is not made explicit in the first link, "basic human right" seems to hint in that direction)

It appears to be giving the finger to US satellites. Really - go and look

With all due respect, you're talking out of your ass. Look at this picture. Notice that the image shown there is from 6/21/2011. What you call the "dilapidated buildings" didn't even have graded land or foundations a year and a half ago. If you have Google Earth installed then you can turn back the clock to see what else changed in 2 years' time. Those buildings are not dilapidated or in a state of disrepair, they are under construction. Try again, comrade.

remember them verifying Bin Laden's location using DNA collected from a fake inoculation campaign

It seems this story has been confirmed. It's a horrible thing. Aide workers are being killed and thousands of children are likely to get sick and die. Got to get those terrorists no matter how many innocents die.

SCOTUS doesn't need to make a ruling upholding a constitutional right, as the constitution already does.

The Justice Department affirmed this strongly when they sent a letter to the Baltimore PD which asserted that it is a first amendment right to record, and a violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments to access and/or destroy such recordings without due process and/or a warrant.

This made national headlines and so it's assured every police department in the U.S. is well aware of this.

The victim should be contacting the DOJ and ACLU in short order.

Attention, Ramsey County Sheriff Deputy: Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

SCOTUS doesn't need to make a ruling upholding a constitutional right, as the constitution already does.

The Justice Department affirmed this strongly when they sent a letter to the Baltimore PD which asserted that it is a first amendment right to record, and a violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments to access and/or destroy such recordings without due process and/or a warrant.

This made national headlines and so it's assured every police department in the U.S. is well aware of this.

The victim should be contacting the DOJ and ACLU in short order.

It has already been done.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/05/wicked-lasers-shark/

Trying to make it look like he was concerned. When you look at the chat transcripts, Lamo just badgers Manning for info.

Lamo was arrested in 2003 for breaking into the NY Times website along with Yahoo, Microsoft and other. Before that he broke into various corporate networks, Lexis-Nexis, etc. Facing a possible 15 year prison sentence he took a plea bargain with reduced it to 6 month to be spent under house arrest at his parent's home. How did he get such a sweet deal? Was part of the deal an agreement to become an FBI informant possibly? Because if the Anonymous arrests have proven one thing, when hackers are faced with serving serious jail time, they will rat their own mothers out to cut a deal.

1. He's not an informant.
2. The US government isn't treating him all that good right now. They wont even defend him morally.

Got all those nasty bugs ironed out? Like the divide by zero bug that locked up the USS Yorktown helm?

No, Not yet.

Smiles. :-) BTW the placebo effect is getting stronger as we continue into the singularity: http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

Anyway, I guess I maybe only be wrong the first time I wrote about the this topic. :-) https://www.google.com/search?q=ancestor+simulation

Lamo was arrested in 2003 for breaking into the NY Times website along with Yahoo, Microsoft and other. Before that he broke into various corporate networks, Lexis-Nexis, etc. Facing a possible 15 year prison sentence he took a plea bargain with reduced it to 6 month to be spent under house arrest at his parent's home. How did he get such a sweet deal? Was part of the deal an agreement to become an FBI informant possibly? Because if the Anonymous arrests have proven one thing, when hackers are faced with serving serious jail time, they will rat their own mothers out to cut a deal.

It could probably be used as a hammer to break an iPhone. A Gorilla Glass vs. whatever it is that Apple uses match would be interesting...

That would be Gorilla Glass vs. Gorilla Glass. Which was resurrected and promoted by Corning because Steve Jobs asked them to.

'Stuart showed Wired a plea agreement (.pdf) signed by former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Meadows, which stated that he would plead guilty to second- and fourth-degree money laundering charges and assist the DAâ(TM)s investigations by, among other things, âoeaiding in the design of software used to obtain records, usernames, passwords, and other information stored on websites usingâ his companyâ(TM)s software'.

Yes, remember: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/watt/ ?

The real issue here is: Should software makers backdoor their programs for cops?

Stuart showed Wired a plea agreement signed by former Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Meadows, which stated that he would plead guilty to second- and fourth-degree money laundering charges and assist the DA's investigations by, among other things, "aiding in the design of software used to obtain records, usernames, passwords, and other information stored on websites using" his company's software.

Illegal. Any evidence acquired by that software would not be usable in court.

A very similar case was presented in the latest issue of Wired magazine: The Patent Problem

Examples include a pacemaker that can be tuned remotely, ...

Fear your pacemaker!!! People with heart problems will now have an increased risk of death!!!

Uh. Well you know what I mean. Fear!!!

I think "death by wifi enabled pacemaker" is most likely. It was covered previously, so now it's just a matter of time and effort for someone actually do it. Well, it's also required that someone with a pacemaker is hated enough by someone else who has access to get the serial number, etc. and then go through with murdering him/her or find someone else with the skills and inclination. That reduces your population of potential perpetrators.

Is it possible this will happen? Yes.
In the next 24 months? Yes.
Will it be found or proved? Probably not.

THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST DRAWINGS OR ANIME DEPICTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY in the U.S., because no one is harmed -- or potentially harmed -- in drawings or anime.

There might not be a explicit law against it, but don't worry -- we'll bend one into shape.

Guilty ... for possessing "drawings of children being sexually abused": Plea agreement draft and primary, secondary, and tertiary background.

Synopsis: ... ordered a set of [7] manga volumes ... seized by Post Office workers in 2006. They were (see link.) Each of these volumes featured drawings ... that is not illegal in Japan. Following this, ... home was raided ... further volumes fitting the category of the charge ... [of] possession of obscene comic books without literary or artistic merit.

Result: (?forced to?) plead guilty and sentenced to six months.


Agree, child porn is bad. But then again, who decides exactly what a child is?

A real child in front of you ends up depicted as photons on your retina which you recognize as a child.
A picture in a book ends up depicted as photons on your retina which you recognize as a child.

Therefore if it's a naughty picture, you're harming a child. 20 years, off you go.
Next case please, bailiff?

How much does it cost to blow up innocent people (women and children included though I value them neither more nor less than males) by drone just about every day of the year.

I really don't know where my priorities are at -- what the fuck is wrong with me for valuing interesting scientific data over blowing up random people and making enemies of the survivors.

The vast majority of people being killed by drone strikes are members of terrorist groups (note that is terrorist, not "terrorist."), and not innocent people, nor are they random people. Any survivors are likely to already be our enemies.

Pakistani General: Actually, The Drones Are Awesome

I doubt very much that the cost of drone strikes will be anywhere near the cost of a satellite and space launch.

2: blog http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html Apology http://blog.path.com/post/17274932484/we-are-sorry

8: First ad http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=c7SjvLceXgU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dc7SjvLceXgU Parody http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=-2vfxnfWGRA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-2vfxnfWGRA

9: Homeless people http://bbh-labs.com/homeless-hotspots-a-charitable-experiment-at-sxswi Wrote http://www.wired.com/business/2012/03/the-damning-backstory-behind-homeless-hotspots-at-sxswi/

Other links to LATimes articles, I did not know they were paywalled, lo siento. S.F.

...China Inc. can first fuck all these corporations and then run away with their decades of R&D data.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/rsa-hacked/

So because RSA was hacked, we shouldn't use Microsoft software?

It's a good thing that no Open source software has ever been hacked.

Here ya go:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/07/airknife/
probably just a parody, but why not?

So you guys are posting on Slashdot now:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/assadosphere/

I hope you and Assad die slow, painful deaths.

Last year: The Wired Atlas of the Human Ecosystem

The article is wrong from the start, there is nothing analogous between known-to-be-unsafe Ford Pintos being sold, and selling a reliable firearm that operates as designed.
I guess a lie this big wants much repetition.*

*No, I don't fucking lose .

Two video game franchises are mentioned, one of them not so violent and the other one of the more violent franchises (recently) of them all.

Starcraft (the original or II): both are considered mildly violent. Tend to have a "13" or T rating on parent guides and the violence is generally considered "moderate" (e.g., 3 of 5).

Call of Duty: the original one or two are not considered ultra-violent, but later editions are (e.g., MW, black ops I and II) These are typically given the highest violence rating possible (e.g. 10/10). All parent reviews suggest these games are not for minors, at all. Here is a quick sample of the kind of violence we are talking about [some spoilers here, fyi]:

• "violently stabs a man's hand with a knife and hits him with a glass bottle all with a fair lot of blood splatter. He then proceeds to execute the man."
• "you see a man's eye gouged out. It is not particularly graphic, but it is very brutal"
• "you brutally kill three Viet-cong by rapidly shredding their throats open with a knife."
• "you see one of your comrades fatally exposed to Nova 6, a biochemical weapon. He vomits as the Nova 6 begins to kill him and then you see his face deteriorate as he screams. This scene is very graphic and disturbing."
• "you are forced to play Russian Roulette with your two other team members. One of the main characters refuses and is beaten to death in the back of the head with a lead pipe. Very intense."
• "including a scene where a Viet Cong jumps you and you pull the pin of a grenade on his belt, thus blowing his limbs off. This is quite gory."
• On two ocassions the game goes into bullet time and you graphically see the bullet enter the head with much blood and brain splatter.

From the wired article on Black Opts II

• "it is really about as violent as it could get"
• "the game is approaching slasher movie levels. Knife attacks are rewarded with a bright crimson arc of blood spray. Well placed shots can explode a person’s head or sever limbs, almost to comical levels. At one point there was so much blood spraying around that I thought I’d stepped into a horror movie."

So, yeah, Starcraft isn't the issue. The issue is that violent video games demonstrably increase aggressive behavior and decrease prosocial behavior. Please review the research literature on this before you make uninformed statements to the contrary.

I am not suggesting that lots of other issues are not important (or more important) in precipitating this event (mental health, access to assault weapons, etc.). But, video game violence is pertient, even if Starcraft is not the issue.

If you're looking at getting into 3D printing, take heed that 3D Systems (maker of theCube 3D)are currently suing Formlabs (Kickstarter company pushing insane 3D technologies to consumer prices) over a seemingly ungrounded patent infringement. Read up either here: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-systems-formlabs-lawsuit/ or google up a storm! I'm always careful to make sure I'm backing the innovators, not the litigators!

If you're looking at getting into 3D printing, take heed that 3D Systems (maker of theCube 3D)are currently suing Formlabs (Kickstarter company pushing insane 3D technologies to consumer prices) over a seemingly ungrounded patent infringement. Read up either here: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-systems-formlabs-lawsuit/ or google up a storm! I'm always careful to make sure I'm backing the innovators, not the litigators!

Gould is not a credible source. He was caught basically lying in that particular book. His agenda was in claiming that psychometry was a racist pseudoscience and he was so adamant about it that he felt it was okay to make up "facts" about various people and studies along the way.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/gould-morton-revisited/

This was a federal case.

Federal sentencing guidelines rarely call for "fully stacked" sentences when the crimes are done at the same time or as part of the same "crime pattern."

They usually give you X years for the most serious conviction, a relatively small incremental amount added on for each additional conviction, and maybe a very small incremental amount for additional non-conviction credible allegations up to some maximum.

Here's his indictment: PDF

1. 18 USC 1030(a)(2)(C), (c)(2)(B)(ii), 6 counts
2. 18 USC 1030(a)(5)(A), (c)(4)(B)(i), (c)(4)(A)(i)(I), 2 counts
3. 18 USC 1030(a)(5)(A), (c)(4)(B)(i), (c)(4)(A)(i)(III), 1 count
4. 18 USC 1028A(a)(1), 8 counts
5. 18 USC 2511(1)(a), 9 counts

I was wondering that myself, so I googled darpa flying tank. This is what I found.

I think these guys are taking Avatar way too seriously.