Articles tagged "FBI"

The past few months have seen the culmination of years of work by authorities to dismantle privacy laws.

As a species, we don't really need "evil" anymore.

What the government needs, it argues, is easier access to your inbox, your Gchats, even your gaming data—and in real-time.

At least, the Feds are willing to talk about how they want to spy on Americans.

As far as anybody knows, the lone quadcopter in Brooklyn was not carrying out a domestic strike.

On Wednesday, the government announced that Barrett Brown, a man who became a very public talking head for Anonymous, is facing up to 100 years in jail.

In response to the harsh sentences recently levied against DDoS action organizers, online activists are trying to make the case that disrupting online should be regarded as a legal form of protest.

Last Friday, the U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force announced the arrest of Adel Daoud, a suburban Chicago teenager who’s since been said to be “enamored with Osama bin Laden and intent on killing Americans.” Daoud is charged with planting a bomb outsid…

The fun-loving, government oppression-hating hackers at AntiSec are back in action with the release of over a million Apple user IDs. The encrypted file hit the web late Monday night along with a characteristic rant against everything from the NSA to…

Friday morning, at about 9 A.M., a hostile ex-employee (or so "it's been tweeted":https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/238996649362456576 by police scanner eavesdroppers) started shooting at random, with at least 10 people injured (it's unclear how m…

The general consensus among authorities is that Anonymous is a threat, both from a criminal and national security perspective. The criminal aspect is easy for police to argue; taking down a "corporation like Sony":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/4/1…

To anyone thinking about beefing up their computer security, a new "'see something, say, something' memo":http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-SuspiciousActivity/Internet_Cafe.pdf from the U.S. Department of Justice might be a little disconcerting…

Ever since last week's historic "web blackout":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/20/when-the-noise-gets-louder-than-the-money-online-and-irl-anti-censorship-protests-are-really-raising-hell rattled the cage in Washington, droves of lawmakers have ei…

More than 24 hours after the U.S. Department of Justice raid on the New Zealand offices of popular file-sharing service Megaupload, a lot of us are still finding ourselves awe-struck. It's no surprise considering the site, which sports 50 million dai…

According to the FBI, the Wu was basically the new mob.

Even when it means breaking the law, there are few places the FBI won't go these days to check if you're up to no good. Your "car":http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/, your "computer":https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/13460-Documents-…

_Pluto's planetary party just got bigger_ h3. One: "New Pluto Moon Discovered By Hubble Space Telescope":http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/new-pluto-moon-hubble-space-telescope_n_904578.html (Huffington Post) h3. Zero: "google kills 'lab…

It's not yet been verified, but an ABC News report claims that Osama bin Laden's body was positively identified using not only facial recognition but on an analysis based on DNA from his dead sister's brain, gathered by federal agents when she died o…