Nature abhors a vacuum. Aristotle said that. Of course, he was talking about how nature has a tendency to fill empty spaces with stuff. In a way, the internet also abhors a vacuum, and the “downfall” of The Pirate Bay is just the latest example. Read more…
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The Pirate Bay Shutdown Hasn’t Slowed Piracy At All
Here we go again. Just a few days after a former FBI agent argued that the new iOS 8 encryption would cause somebody to die , a Department of Justice boss upped the ante. At a meeting on October 1, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told a room full off Apple executives that iPhone encryption would cause a child to die. A child! Read more…
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DOJ Ups the Ante, Says iPhone Encryption Will Kill a Child
There are three things you can count on in life: Death, taxes, and people buying drugs on the internet. Yesterday, the FBI seized black market website Silk Road 2.0 and charged the alleged admin Blake Benthall in federal court, trumpeting its bust with a sassy takedown notice . Read more…
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Silk Road 3 Is Already Up, But It’s Not the Future of Darknet Drugs
Silk Road 2.o, the illegal drug marketplace that cropped up to replace the original has been shutdown by the FBI and its alleged operator has been charged in Manhattan Federal Court. Read more…
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Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down By the FBI, Operator Charged In Federal Court
Roku was already the best little streaming device money could buy . But now, Google has gone and given Roku access to all your Google Play goodies . Which, more than just being an unprecedented move on Google’s part, makes Roku pretty much unstoppable. Read more…
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Roku Now Has Google Play, Is Pretty Much Unstoppable
It’s not what Apple’s most recent transparency reports say that has activists concerned—rather, it’s what’s missing. Because the sudden omission of a mere two sentences essentially translates to Apple saying that yes, they’ve now been subjected to the Patriot Act’s demands . Read more…
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Hidden Message in Apple Transparency Reports Suggest New NSA Warrants
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation may have seized the Silk Road and sold off its horde of ill-gotten Bitcoin , but the case isn’t over yet — the dark web site’s creator still has to face trial. The defense of Ross Ulbricht, the man allegedly behind the Silk Road, is doing its best to discredit the FBI’s evidence; specifically, its accusing the bureau of sniffing out Silk Road server’s location through illegal means. The FBI says that couldn’t be further from the truth. In a court rebuttal, the FBI claims that the IP address of the server was “‘leaking’ from the site due to an apparent misconfiguration of the user login interface by the site administrator.” Basically, FBI officials exploited a glitch to get the server to cough up its hidden location. Officials found that the login page could be coaxed into producing an IP address that didn’t match TOR standards. When this address was used in a non-TOR browser, it produced an element of the login page, confirming that it represented the server’s true location. If this rebuttal is accepted, it will dismiss the defense’s accusations that the FBI used the NSA to illegally hack into the server to find its location. This would ensure that most of the FBI’s evidence is admissible and possibly seal Ulbricht’s fate. Check out the FBI’s full rebuttal in the court document below. Silk Road Prosecution 4th Amendment Rebuttall Comments Source: Wired
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DNA sequencing is crucial for identifying and tracking nasty viruses like E. coli and the flu. But current tabletop-size DNA sequencing machines aren’t readily portable. Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand have a solution in a brick-sized DNA sequencer that connects wirelessly to a smartphone or laptop. Read more…
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The World’s First Handheld DNA Sequencer Is a Genetics Lab In a Box
The FBI just switched over to Next-Generation Identification, a new digital system for keeping track of the 83 million fingerprint cards the bureau maintains. That means dismantling thousands of filing cabinets that were once hand-searched by Bureau employees, twenty-four hours a day. Here’s how they did it. Read more…
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The Ultra-Laborious Way the FBI Matched Fingerprints to Paper Files
Think all your data is safe and sound in The Cloud? Maybe you shouldn’t be so sure. Yesterday, a system administrator at a cloud service data center accidentally rebooted every single server at once by accident . It’s a handy reminder that you’re only one idiot away from total data annihilation. Read more…
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It Only Takes One Bozo To Kill Your Cloud Data