Wondering why the FBI doesn’t name phone and internet service providers that help them in surveillance programs? They’re trying to protect those companies from the wrath of the snooped-upon customers.
iFixit’s latest teardown victim is not a shiny phone or fancy tablet, but an FBI tracking device for automobiles.
Remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where Harvey Keitel’s character — the nicely-named Winston Wolf — comes in to help assassins Jules and Vincent tidy up an especially messy murder? “How come I’m on brain duty?!”
Earlier today, three of the Web’s largest poker sites — PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker — were seized by the FBI after the U.S. Attorney for New York opened an indictment charging the site’s founders for bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling.
We all know about fighting fire with fire, but I have to admit: Fighting Command-And-Control with Command-And-Control…that’s a new one. Nonetheless, that’s what the US Justice Department is doing, working with the nonprofit Internet Systems Consortium and the FBI to install their own command-and-control servers to kill existing malware bots.
The five suspects linked to the Anonymous Hactivist group have been released on bail Friday, reports The Guardian. The five males were arrested by London Metropolitan Police Thursday in connection with online DDoS attacks in support of WikiLeaks last December. Meanwhile, the FBI also issued 40 search warrants across the U.S. in their own deepening [...]
A few years back, I did a long newspaper story about the FBI snooping on the private records of ordinary citizens. As my old editor Michael Kinsley likes to say, the scandal is what’s legal. The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. [...]
Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
