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Editorial: Facebook shutdown a small price to pay for international security

The Wall Street Journal — The question of security versus liberty is the question of this century - as technology advances at an ever-increasing pace, so too do the threats to our safety. In this brave new world, we must decide what we are willing to do to protect ourselves from these threats. What actions are justified in protecting our freedom?   The recent revelation that Facebook is being used to organize a massive anti-government action across Europe presents us with one of these questions: is shutting down Facebook in affected countries justified in preventing terrorists from organizing across borders? We firmly believe that it is. Individual freedom is only valid as long as it doesn’t infringe upon the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of another individual. While each of us has the freedom to use sites like Facebook as we please, that freedom ends when our use of said sites becomes dangerous to others, as it is now. The right to Facebook was invalidated t...
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Crisis Update 8

Intelligence update : A group of intelligence bodies (NSA, GCHQ, German intelligence, French Intelligence, Estonian Intelligence, Spanish Intelligence, Dutch Intelligence) have come forward with a common finding. Each organization had independently begun noticing facebook groups promoting political unrest with users that fit the profile of bots. For example, French intelligence analysts note a group purporting to be supportive of Marine La Pen’s National Front. A decent portion of the group seems to fit the profile of a fake user. This is observed in each of the listed countries except the US (German groups mention the AfD, Spanish groups mention Catalonian independence, Dutch groups mention Geert Wilders). Upon collaboration, analysts from these intelligence organizations note a common thread: all are promoting collective action tomorrow (Sunday). Beginning Saturday, each of these groups plans to aggressively publicize these protests events (which they have not yet done). Upon t...
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Crisis Update 7

Update on airport attack : Most airports have switched to analog communications. Some do not have these legacy systems anymore, and in those airports (Rome, JFK, Vilnius) planes are being diverted to local airports. In the process of some of these diversions, some local airports have also been infected by the malware. Details on the malware : Using the USB power plug on the seatback entertainment system, an attacker plugged in a malicious USB flash drive. The data pins on the seatback USB plugs are not blocked on Ryanair, exposing this attack vector. The name of the passenger whose seatback entertainment system started this attack is Jacques Clouseau, a French citizen that, upon questioning, was visiting Estonia for the first time with his family this spring. Additionally, the attackers utilized American NSA hacking tools released in the 2016 Shadow Brokers leak to exploit the outdated Android operating system present on the Ryanair screens.
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Directive 2.1

Sponsors: Lithuania, Latvia Condemns the weaponization of oil and gas supplies by the Russian Federation; Draft retaliatory measures including, but not limited to economic sanctions to be enacted upon satisfactory attribution of today’s attacks
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Buzzfeed Reporting on NATO

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Buzzfeed--Gender divide inside NATO? This picture leaked from ongoing NATO discussions about the crisis in Estonia suggest that NATO's effectiveness as an int'l actor may be under question due to internal gender divisions.
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Protests Fire Up in Narva to Speak for Russian Minority -- Спутник (Sputnik)

Спутник ( Sputnik ) -- As of April 10, 2018, protests have flared up in Narva regarding the planned destruction of the Linnahall stadium, site of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.  Historically known for its bold and state-of-the-art architecture, the stadium is now appears to be a hetero-memento site or an anti-lieu de mémoire. According to Dr. Francisco Martínez of Tallinn University, Linnahall is in the process of "becoming a heritage in the making, a Machu Picchu." The planned decimation of this site has caused a reaction from the ethnic Russian demographic of Estonia. 40-year old Gennady Ilyasovich Plameniy, a former employee in the Republic of Estonia Ministry of Culture with Russian heritage, has taken it upon himself to organize the often ignored voice of the Russian minority in Estonia and fight to preserve their heritage. After repeated attempts to lift this concern within the ministry, Plameniy has decided to leave his government position to peacefu...
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Postimees Report: Estonian Internal Security Services Identify Protest Leader

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Postimees  -- has discovered several intriguing facts about the riots in Tallinn. Estonian leadership has indicated that the leader is an Estonian citizen by the name of Gennady Ilyasovich Plameniy. Under Plameniy, a group of rioters near Linnahall have caused over 30 million Euros worth of damage, in the name of protecting the ethnic Russian right to self-determination. But the question that every Estonian citizen is asking - who is this mysterious Plameniy? Plameniy (left) was born in 1978 in Harju County. His parents were low-level workers in the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a young Plameniy became what one of his former professors at Tallinn University described as a "Russophile," with "a yearning for the strength of the Soviet Union." However, after exiting the University, his love of Russia appears to not have extended to his private life - his neighbors described him as a reclusive individual,...
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