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Judges Toss Out Stingray Evidence
After all the reports in recent years about governments tracking and reading users mobile phones, it’s become known for the first time that a judge has thrown out evidence obtained via the mobile interception technology known as Stingrays. The 14-page opinion comes from district judge William H. Pauley. While this…
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Apple Told All Writs Act Can’t Force Them To Unlock iPhone
Recently Apple has been involved in court battle after court battle, with the largest battle being the San Bernardino case against the FBI. In the case, the FBI are looking to use an 18th-century law, the All Writs Act, to get Apple to create some software that would let them…
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Ross Ulbricht Appeals for Silk Road Retrial over Police Corruption
Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old man ruled to be the founder of dark web black market site Silk Road and convicted on seven counts, has appealed for a fresh trial on the grounds that two of the police officers involved in the investigation have been convicted of fraud, committed on the…
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US Army and Law Enforcement Found Purchasing Italian Spyware
Leaked documents have revealed that US law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and DEA, and the US Army have been using an Italian-made spyware package to remotely control people’s computers, while also using it to monitor and record calls, e-mails, keystrokes, and visual information obtained from any connected webcams. The…
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Silk Road Investigator Guilty of Stealing From Site
The head of the Baltimore task force that was investigating the Silk Road black market website has pled guilty to using the site to extort money, and even admitted to agreeing a $240k deal for the movie rights to his investigation with a major Hollywood studio. Carl Mark Force has…
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Feds Tracking International Calls Since 1992, Didn’t Stop 9/11
Since the inception of the Patriot Act, and amplified since the Snowden leak, the oft-repeated justification for intelligence services running mass surveillance programs is that it helps fight terrorism or, more hyperbolically, “would have prevented 9/11”, an idea extolled by such luminaries as former FBI head Robert Mueller and Senator…
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Small Device Tells if Your Drink has been Injected with a Noxious Solution
A device that tells if your drink has been injected with a noxious device, or spiked for short, has appeared on Indiegogo, aiming to rise about $100,000. Its name is pd.id (Personal Drink ID) and is said to have the size of a pack of gum, blinking red in just…
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