After tweeting a picture of his underwear-clad boner last month and blaming it on witchcraft hackers playing pranks, US congressman Anthony Weiner has found himself under constant media attention. And just as interest about his naughty adventures finally started dying out, a young woman came forward with a new set of pictures, including shirtless self portraits and a shot of his exposed junk (he named it ready.jpg).

I hope you guys have your popcorn ready because this is going to get good!

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The good stuff is out! The woman who came forward with new pictures has also revealed some sexy texts she exchanged with Weiner. Among them there is one in which he told her he was a “caped crusader . . . looking for my sidekick.” He dun’ goof’d this time.

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You may think the senator who meowed at her is a misogynistic pig, but in his defense, kitty did have claws.

Not knowing that Anonymous is an idea and not a group, UK’s General Rapporteur-Lord Jopling has suggested in a report to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly that action should be taken to stop them before really dirty secrets are exposed serious damage is done.

Anonymous is becoming more and more sophisticated and could potentially hack into sensitive government, military, and corporate files.

According to reports in February 2011, Anonymous demonstrated its ability to do just that. After WikiLeaks announced its plan of releasing information about a major bank, the US Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America reportedly hired the data intelligence company HBGary Federal to protect their servers and attack any adversaries of these institutions. In response, Anonymous hacked servers of HBGary Federal’s sister company and hijacked the CEO’s Twitter account.

Today, the ad hoc international group of hackers and activists is said to have thousands of operatives and has no set rules or membership. It remains to be seen how much time Anonymous has for pursuing such paths. The longer these attacks persist, the more likely countermeasures will be developed, implemented, the groups will be infiltrated and perpetrators persecuted.

All I can say is, good luck, we’re behind 7 proxies.

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Apparently the Pentagon is working on plans that will categorize hacker attacks on key US systems as acts of war, meaning future US presidents could impose economic sanctions or send in the military to invade whoever cyber-threatens ‘Merica.

“We reserve the right to use all necessary means – diplomatic, informational, military, and economic – as appropriate and consistent with applicable international law, in order to defend our nation, our allies, our partners and our interests.”

“If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks.”

When you think about it, this kind of makes sense. There are so many crucial, unsecured networks out there that they’ve got to do something to deter people/nations from trying to mess with them. But at the same time it’s rather hypocritical of the United States to do this after being accused of using cyber warfare against other nations themselves (hint: Iran, Stuxnet). Guess being a military superpower has its perks though – you get to make the rules.

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Reuters is reporting that the Dutch government intends to start banning tourists from cannabis shops by the end of the year “in order to tackle the nuisance and criminality associated with coffee shops and drug trafficking.” Gone will be the days when if you wanted to be perpetually high you could just visit Amsterdam and live the dream.

If the Dutch government makes this a reality, there goes 50% of the Dutch GDP. Or maybe not, because there’s all those other things tourists can see, like… uh… windmills.

A statement released by Osama Bin Laden’s fourth eldest son, Omar Bin Laden, says that his father’s “burial at sea has deprived the family of performing religious rights of a Muslim man” and that his family feels degraded by it.

In the same statement he also said that special forces shouldn’t have shot unarmed family members (who were living in the same house as the world’s most wanted terrorist) and has threatened to go to the International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice and the UN if the United States don’t provide “conclusive evidence to believe the stories published in relation to 2 May 2011 operation Geronimo.”

Look how many f*cks the world gives about the feelings of a terrorist’s family. Look!