MetaFilter posts tagged with conspiracy and FBI

The Waffle House Terrorists

zarq — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:34:37 -0800

This past November, news broke of a rather odd domestic terror plot that had been broken up by the FBI. Four senior citizens in northern Georgia who met regularly at a local Waffle House, were allegedly planning to spread ricin and botulinum toxin in Atlanta and Washington, DC, in order to kill millions of people and "save the Constitution." But was there ever really a conspiracy?

Subject: Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC

These Premises Are Alarmed — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:48:30 -0800

Theo de Raadt: I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack. OpenBSD has long been considered the 'most secure' open source OS. Theo, its founder, is not known for mincing words. Initial response to the backdoor allegations have been mostly skeptical.

FBI PowerPoint, Chinese Hackers, and Counterfeit Routers, Oh My!

homunculus — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:11:00 -0800

FBI Fears Chinese Hackers Have Back Door Into US Government & Military. [Via /.]

Anthrax and the Agency

martk — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:18:57 -0800

Anthrax and the Agency "Now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially put the anthrax investigation on a back burner, it is time for Americans to think the unthinkable: that the FBI has never been keen to identify the perpetrator because that perpetrator may, in fact, be the U.S. Government itself. Evidence is mounting that the source of the anthrax was a top secret U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland and that the perpetrators involve high-level officials in the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure." Granted, there's more than a few blips on the radar screen these days, but...whatever happened to this investigation? I'm no conspiracy theorist, but the case laid out in this piece gives me pause. Any other good theories out there?