(COMMONDREAMS) Just hours after President Donald Trump launched his latest rhetorical (and predictable) attack on the press during a speech to right-wing activists, CNN and other outlets have reportedly been blocked from attending Friday afternoon’s press briefing at the White House…

Source: Breaking: White House Just Blocked CNN, NYT, and More from a Press Briefing

In the past 48 hours, two stories broke that illustrate how dominant technology has become in the age-old war between freedom and control:Malware Lets a Drone Steal Data by Watching a Computer’s Blinking LED(Wired) – A group of researchers at Ben-Gurion’s cybersecurity lab has devised a method to defeat the security protection known as an “air gap,” the safeguard of separating highly sensitive computer systems from the internet to quarantine them from hackers. If an attacker can plant malware on one of those systems—say, by paying an insider to infect it via USB or SD card—this approach offers a new way to rapidly pull secrets out of that isolated machine. Every blink of its hard drive LED indicator can spill sensitive information to any spy with a line of sight to the target computer, whether from a drone outside the window or a telescopic lens from the next roof over…

Source: In The Police-State-Versus-Freedom Arms Race, Freedom Seems To Be Winning | Zero Hedge