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A Journalist Is Exposing How the FBI Targets Animal Activists as ‘Terrorists’
As a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune in the months following 9/11, Will Potter was already growing weary of reporting on cops, crime, and shootings in the city. On a whim during some time off, he decided to help a group of activists hand out leaflets opposing animal testing. “It wasn’t what journalists usually do,” says Potter, now 37. “But I was feeling like I wasn’t making a difference in the world as a reporter.”
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Protests planned across US to back Apple in battle with FBI
Protesters are preparing to assemble in more than 30 cities to lash out at the FBI for obtaining a court order that requires Apple to make it easier to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a gunman in December's mass shootings in Southern California. The protests organized by the Internet rights group Fight for the Future are scheduled to occur Tuesday outside Apple stores in the U.S., the U.K., Hong Kong and Germany.
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Sacha Baron Cohen says FBI started following him on 'Borat'
Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat had a knack for producing hilarious reactions from strangers thanks to his outrageous behavior, but Cohen likely didn’t expect the reaction he received from the FBI.
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The Apple Case Will Grope Its Way Into Your Future
To understand what’s at stake in the battle between Apple and the F.B.I. over cracking open a terrorist’s smartphone, it helps to be able to predict the future of the tech industry. For that, here’s one bet you’ll never lose money on: Digital technology always grows hungrier for more personal information, and we users nearly always accede to its demands. Today’s smartphones hold a lot of personal data — your correspondence, your photos, your location, your dignity.
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How to Prosecute an Internet Troll
On May 3, 2015, two men dressed in body armor and armed with assault rifles approached the Culwell Event Center in the Dallas suburb of Garland, Texas where 200 people had gathered for a Prophet Muhammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest. Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, roommates from Phoenix, Arizona, arrived just as the event was ending. CNN reported they got out of a dark-colored sedan and began shooting...
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Congress tells FBI that forcing Apple to unlock iPhones is 'a fool's errand'
The Justice Department is on a “fool’s errand” trying to force Apple to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, lawmakers told FBI director James Comey on Tuesday. Lawmakers of both parties sharply challenged Comey as the House judiciary committee considered the FBI’s court order to unlock an iPhone owned by Syed Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, in December and was killed by law enforcement.
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FBI reveals details of $4.8M gold truck robbery
The FBI has revealed how thieves made off with gold bars worth $4.8 million in a truck robbery on Interstate 95 last year, and it reads like a heist fit for Hollywood. Agents say the armed robbers painstakingly prepared for the job, using high-tech gizmos including a GPS tracker and a remote-controlled pepper-spray launcher to subdue the drivers.
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ACLU: You can kiss trust in software updates goodbye if Apple's forced to help the FBI
The ACLU today filed an amicus brief in federal court, taking Apple's side in the dispute about whether the company should be forced to help the FBI access an iPhone.
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FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans
The FBI has quietly revised its privacy rules for searching data involving Americans’ international communications that was collected by the National Security Agency, US officials have confirmed to the Guardian. The classified revisions were accepted by the secret US court that governs surveillance, during its annual recertification of the agencies’ broad surveillance powers. The new rules affect a set of powers colloquially...
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Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is “Bullshit”
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the FBI’s ostensibly last-ditch attempt to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone is a sham. The FBI last month persuaded a federal judge that the only way to get into the phone was to make Apple write code to undermine its own security protocols. Apple is refusing to comply. “The FBI says Apple has the ‘exclusive technical means’” to unlock the phone...
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The FBI has a new plan to spy on high school kids across the country
Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists, warning that “anarchist extremists” are in the same category as ISIS and young people who are poor, immigrants or travel to “suspicious” countries are more likely to commit horrific violence.
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White House Begins To Realize It May Have Made A Huge Mistake In Going After Apple Over iPhone Encryption
One of the key lines that various supporters of backdooring encryption have repeated in the last year, is that they "just want to have a discussion" about the proper way to... put backdoors into encryption. Over and over again you had the likes of James Comey insisting that he wasn't demanding backdoors, but really just wanted a "national conversation" on the issue (despite the fact we had just such a conversation in the 90s and concluded: backdoors bad, let's move on.).
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FBI wants iPhone unlocked in Boston gang case
The fight between Apple and the FBI has come to Boston with agents going after an iPhone that belongs to a reputed Boston gang member accused of being a triggerman in a street feud that bloodied a rival. The FBI took two phones from Desmond Crawford in November 2015, and one of them is an iPhone that agents say is locked and cannot be opened. Crawford — a member of Columbia Point Dawgs, a street gang taken down by the FBI and Boston police...
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If the FBI Is So Worried About Car Hacking, Why Is It Fighting Encryption?
It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon and you find yourself in your car, bound for the supermarket. As you approach a stoplight you lightly apply pressure to the brakes, but your vehicle doesn’t slow down. Slightly more panicked now, you push the brake to the floorboard. Still nothing. Your panic reaches a fury pitch as you find yourself coasting headlong into the intersection and oncoming traffic. As the airbag explodes in your face, you can’t help but wonder how...
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FBI: Hospice nurses told to overdose patients to speed death
The owner of a Dallas-area hospice ordered nurses to increase drug dosages for patients to speed their deaths and maximize profits, according to an FBI affidavit. A copy of the affidavit for a search warrant obtained by KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth (http://bit.ly/1VTzfeh ) alleges Brad Harris ordered higher dosages for at least four patients at Novus Health Services in Frisco. It's unclear whether any deaths resulted from...
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It has begun: The FBI will unlock other iPhones in criminal investigations
We were wondering whether the FBI will agree to use in other cases the same hack that unlocked the San Bernardino iPhone just earlier this week, and it turns out the agency is more than willing to share its newly acquired know-how to help other law enforcement agencies solve their on-going investigations. Just days after it confirmed it didn’t need Apple to access the local files of the iPhone 5c that belonged to one of the San Bernardino shooters, the FBI agreed to...
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FBI Whistleblower Wrongfully Fired For Reporting Sex Trips
A federal appeals court ruled that an FBI whistleblower, who reported fraud and sexual misconduct involving prostitutes, was wrongfully terminated in 2010. By Kevin Gosztola.
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The F.B.I. Is Sharing Its Secret for Breaking into iPhones
Last week, the F.B.I. successfully broke into an iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists in last year’s San Bernardino shootings, ending the government’s contentious, public legal dispute with Apple. While the agency won’t disclose its method for unlocking the device, it has sent a memo to local law-enforcement agencies, telling them it can provide technical assistance to help solve other cases where encrypted Apple devices could contain evidence. “In mid-March...
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FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years
The feds warned that “a group of malicious cyber actors,” whom security experts believe to be the government-sponsored hacking group known as APT6, “have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011, according to an FBI alert obtained by Motherboard.
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FBI Spy Planes Are Using Augmented Reality To Watch America
A startling find by BuzzFeed
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