FBI Ran Website Serving Thousands of Child Porn Images
WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described as one of the Internet’s largest...
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Policing Robots to Hit The Streets in California
The robots might one day rise up and take over, but a Palo Alto startup called Knightscope has developed a fleet of...
The Bizarre Story of Ian Murdock’s Death
by Virgil Vaduva Ian Murdock was an icon in the Linux world. As a founder of Debian, a popular Linux...
Smartphone App Allows Citizens to Depend on Each Other for Emergency Services Instead of Police
We live in a world where we are forced to pay for services that are unreliable, corrupt and brutal. We...
Why Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
By Virgil Vaduva Bitcoin and technology media is in a feeding frenzy over the revelations from Wired Magazine and Gizmodo...
ModPOS Malware: iSight’s Pathetic Effort to Increase Revenues
A few days before the 2015 Black Friday frenzy, a number of security web sites and security bloggers have published...
Snitch or Martyr? The expose’ of Anonymous Hacker, Sabu, A.K.A. Hector Xavier Monsegur
Courtesy of CBS By Deric Lostutter LulzSec, a name synonymous with chaos, first appeared in 2011. “Lulz” is a mutilation...
BREAKING: After Cops Blamed Encryption And Edward Snowden, They Discover That Terrorists Used Plaintext SMS
In the wake of the tragic events in Paris last week encryption has continued to be a useful bogeyman for...
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“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history’s fingers, down it goes.” – V...
Secret Service Can Use Cell-Phone Trackers And Stingrays Without Warrants
US President Barack Obama, surrounded by US Secret Service agents, walks to greet guests after arriving on Air Force One...
Atlanta Cop Immediately Releases Man When Realizing He Was Being Recorded
In the last few years, smartphones have become cheaper and more plentiful. According to recent statistics, the number of cellphones...
Cops Are Asking Ancestry.com And 23andMe For Customers’ DNA
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic...
CIA Employees First Victims of The U.S. OPM Hack
Irony came back to the shores of the United States in the month of September as the CIA was forced...
Kim Dotcom Extradition Hearing Begins
After more than three years of legal wrangling, two supreme court cases and 10 delays in the proceedings, the extradition...
Surprise: The Biggest Police Body Camera Program in the Country Has One Big Flaw
On Monday, the LAPD will mobilize its own major body camera system; 7,000 body cameras will be deployed. “The first...
Upcoming Emergency Alerting App Has Default ‘Cop Blocking’ Feature
A new and upcoming app created by a small startup is appealing to activists and ‘Cop Blockers’ who may be in...
Feds Can Read Every Email You Opened Last Year Without A Warrant
It’s no longer a surprise that the government is reading your emails. What you might not know is that it...
FBI Investigating 11 Attacks on San Francisco-Area Internet Lines
The FBI is investigating at least 11 physical attacks on high-capacity Internet cables in California’s San Francisco Bay Area...
Secret Service Agent to Plead Guilty for Theft of Silk Road Bitcoin, Second Agent Held Without Bail
Left: former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges; Right: former DEA agent Carl Force A former Secret Service agent charged with...
Five Reasons Why Police Body-Cams Are a Terrible Idea
by Virgil Vaduva Police accountability advocates often discuss the importance of body cameras being used and worn by police officers....
