privacy-and-security
The Foxconn "iPhone Riot" Was Just One Of Hundreds in China Today
There's no word yet on how many fights broke out over the new iPhone at shops around the world over the weekend between eager customers or "Apple and Samsung":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444032404578007862126166322.html?mod=googlenews...
Occupy's One-Time Internet Is In A Showdown With Google in Kansas City
The last time we heard from Isaac Wilder, co-founder of the "Free Network Foundation":http://thefnf.org/, he was getting the hell out of New York City. We first met Wilder, whose peer-to-peer, wifi-hotspot driven communications initiative took front...
How to Get an Internet "Terrorist" To Plant a Bomb (If You're the FBI)
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 outside...
How Romanian Hackers Stole $10 Million From Subway Customers
Two Romanian hackers have fessed up to their involvement in a three-year-long credit card conspiracy that targeted over 150 Subway sandwich shops and as many as 146,000 of their unsuspecting customers. From 2008 to 2010, Iulian Dolan and Cezar Iulian...
The NYPD Gives Us Another Great Reason To Update Our Facebook Privacy Settings
NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly issued a five-page memo last week, giving officers permission to created fake Facebook profiles to assist with electronic probes. Officers will be able to register their alias with the department and obtain a laptop...
How Twitter's Epic Fight to Protect One Guy's Data Crashed Into Money
Twitter really gave it the old college try with the Malcolm Harris case. The Occupy protester was arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge last fall, along with about 700 other kids trying to stand up to the banks. Like those hundred or so other protesters...
Noted Anonymous Fameball Barrett Brown Arrested, Charges Pending
He doesn’t appear to be in Fed custody for the moment, but this mugshot via Dallas County records confirms that Barrett Brown, better known as @BarrettBrownLOL on Twitter, is at the very least sitting in county jail awaiting possible charges on...
America's Border-Industrial Complex Can't Get Its Virtual Fences in a Row
Border security will never die. Federal budgets and immigration waves may both be on the wane, but hey, no matter. The U.S-Mexico border-industrial complex continues booming apace, with some even saying there's no end in sight in pushing to build up a...
In-School Surveillance Cameras Go Where Hall Monitors Can't: The Bathroom
The hall monitor model was bound to fail. Think about it. You give a student an orange sashes, a rule book and a badge and expect them to keep the peace. But what about said student's friends? They'll get away with murder with their insider connection...
With Digitally Trackable Cash, Did We Just Lose Our Last Opt-Out From Surveillance Society?
I had an interesting argument the other day about traffic cameras, and camera tracking/facial recognition in general. The opposing argument was a fairly typical slippery slope type objection -- _now it's traffic tickets, but next it'll be your face...
If You've Got Romney's Tax Records, Larry Flynt Will Pay For Them
Although he has a good deal of hair left, Larry Flynt, legendary pornographer and publisher of _Hustler Magazine_ is beginning to resemble Dr. Evil (if only by virtue of character) as his offers of $1 million become more frequent. As you may recall...
It's Too Quiet: The Eerie Early Morning TV of 9/11
Fashion Week was just getting underway in New York. George W. Bush went for an early morning jog in Florida. Iraq shot down a Predator drone. The weather was still summer and perfect. Until 8.46 AM, September 11, 2001 was another morning in America.