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Defense contractor to plead guilty | West Hawaii Today
(deleted dot com it the same as next line below but with a dot com).../defense-contract...
West Hawaii Today
Mar 11, 2014 - HONOLULU A civilian defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to a Chinese ... Martin O'Malley Joins 2016 Presidential Race.
I was searching for defense contractor finance info saw the "pled guilty" and clicked but was warned of the risks backed out saw the obvious Snowden connection. I figured this was a lounge post but wasn't sure with the Snowden thing. I wonder who is behind the one I almost clicked into, odd they are using this as a trap.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)or ads. Don't know much when or where they appear. DU, news sites, Youtube, or ESPN is about the only places I go. Stay away from the sponsored links at the bottom -- that one caught me by surprise.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I've never clicked on an ad here.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Strange internet filter blocks them out. Odd sites too like urbandictionary.com The Davenport Iowa poll results source was blocked but I eventually found them at Bloomberg.
marble falls
(57,649 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I clicked back out and the story is phony and for some reason my search keywords it includes O'Malley in the text. I don't know malware virus but probably phishing but why the phony stuff seemingly to key on defense or contractors or O'Malley though don't know if that is a coincidence. Could be a satire article, you could try those 3 keywords and see if it comes and try to see.
bananas
(27,509 posts)1) Is this the link? I don't see a problem with it.
http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/community-bulletin/defense-contractor-plead-guilty
2) Specifically which software program gave you the warning?
Some of them give a lot of false alarms, some are politically biased and give warnings on "liberal" sites and "objectionable" material.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)"I understand the risks" or the back-out option. It was "This connection is untrustworthy". All I said were "pled guilty" before I went into but for some reason your link I didn't get the connection warning thing.
I can't remember what it was I use Windows probably 7. Firefox, whatever is standard on those.
I thought it was clearly making the implication about Snowden but what are the odds a different civilian defense contractor in Hawaii actually does plead guilty. Interesting story though she is 27, he's 52 "were in love" "not about espionage" but "gives" her the secrets?
Thanks I don't ever remember getting those things since a guest went to those casino sites.
bananas
(27,509 posts)That's a firefox warning when it can't connect securely to an https site.
The link I posted was just plain http not https, so you didn't get a warning.
Your original search probably returned the same link with https.
I just tried the link using https instead of http, and got the same warning with firefox:
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/community-bulletin/defense-contractor-plead-guilty
The site administrators probably messed up, this would be a serious problem for a bank or anyplace you log into with personal info, but here the site administrators are using the wrong domain name for the certificates they're using, they'll probably consider a low priority problem and not fix it, they may not even be aware of it.
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Technical details
www.westhawaiitoday.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.newsengin.com, newsengin.com
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
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bananas
(27,509 posts)Navy official is highest yet to plead guilty in bribery case
By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press11:09 p.m.Jan. 6, 2015
SAN DIEGO (AP) As a U.S. Navy commander, Jose Luis Sanchez helped oversee operations in an area spanning Japan, Russia, Singapore, Australia and many other countries across Asia. Now, he is the highest-ranking official to plead guilty in a massive bribery scheme that has rocked the Navy.
The bribes that destroyed Sanchez's career and leave him facing a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison are valued at no more than $120,000, according to a plea agreement. That includes payment to prostitutes, $7,500 to travel from Asia to the United States, five days at Singapore's luxury Shangri-La Hotel and cash.
Sanchez, 42, on Tuesday became the second Navy official and fifth person overall to plead guilty in an alleged scheme to provide classified Navy ship and submarine schedules and other internal information to Leonard Glenn Francis, chief executive of a Singapore-based company that provided services to vessels at ports.
Sanchez acknowledged sharing confidential information with Francis, who is known in military circles as "Fat Leonard," from 2009 to 2013. Sanchez said he provided shipping schedules, a competitor's bills and internal emails that Francis' company, Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd., was being investigated for possible fraud.
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Leonard Francis cousin, Alex Wisidagama, was a company manager. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government.
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JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I mean the coincidence of the location.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)...the link and usually see HTT*//* ChingchonDingaLing.com ...which I doubt seriously has anything to do with my PayPal account being "Compromised"
randome
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