The Hill reports that today President Obama will propose $263 million in funding to law enforcement to help avoid another disaster like the ongoing mess in Ferguson, Missouri. Read more…
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Obama Calls For $75 Million In Funding for 50,000 Police Body Cameras
New submitter FarnsworthG writes A news story about the capture of a kidnapper mentioned that he was caught because a car dealer had secretly installed a GPS device on his car. Apparently this is becoming common for “buy-here-pay-here” dealers. The devices are sold by Spireon, among many others. Raises interesting privacy questions. FarnsworthG also points to this Jalopnik article condemning the practice, when it’s done without disclosure. The kidnapping itself, of Philadelphia nursing assistant Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, was captured by a surveillance camera. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Dealer-Installed GPS Tracker Leads To Kidnapper’s Arrest in Maryland
Two-factor authentication is generally seen as the safest bet for protecting your Gmail account. But a harrowing tale from indie developer Grant Blakeman , whose Instagram was hacked through Gmail, reveals how not even two-factor authentication can beat every security threat. Read more…
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How Hackers Reportedly Side-Stepped Google’s Two-Factor Authentication
In mid-July, Microsoft announced that’d it be rolling at a 1 TB storage increase for all its Office 365 Home, Personal, and University subscribers. But the team decided continue its push for cloud supremacy by upping its storage capacity into infinity. Office 365 users now have access to unlimited storage via OneDrive for free. Read more…
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Office 365 Subscribers Now Get Unlimited OneDrive Storage
sabri writes: Following the initial suspension of a California Highway Patrol officer earlier this week, news has come out that the CHP has an entire ring of officers who steal and subsequently share nude pictures. The nudes are stolen from women who are arrested or stopped. Officer Sean Harrington of Martinez reportedly confessed to stealing explicit photos from the suspect’s phone, and said he forwarded those images to at least two other CHP officers. Where is the ACLU when you need them the most? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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CHP Officers Steal, Forward Nude Pictures From Arrestee Smartphones
jfruh writes: Japan has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the world, and the authorities there aim to make sure new technologies don’t open any loopholes. 28-year-old engineer Yoshitomo Imura has been sentenced to two years in jail after making guns with a 3D printer in his home in Kawasaki. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison
It’s no secret that everybody’s thinking about privacy and cyber security more since the world was pummeled with the unsettling, spy-novel truths of the Snowden revelations . Now, companies are starting to seize onto the zeitgeist by building more secure tools for the internet. And it sounds like Tor will be at the front of that line. Read more…
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Dreaming of a Tor Button for Firefox
Here’s a new feature of iOS 8 that we weren’t expecting: Apple announced tonight that the new software makes it impossible for Apple to turn over the data on an iOS 8-equipped iPhone or iPad to U.S. law enforcement, even in the presence of a search warrant. Chalk one up for privacy. Read more…
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Apple Won’t Turn Over Your iPhone’s Data to Police If You’re Using iOS 8
Los Angeles School Police Department announced this week that it would be sending some controversial surplus military equipment back to the federal government. Specifically, the school police will send back three grenade launchers. In related news, LA school police had grenade launchers . Read more…
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LA Schools Are Giving Back Grenade Launchers (But Keeping the Tank)
Qatar, the 2022 host of the World Cup, is not a large country, with a population just over 2.1 million. So to prepare for the millions who’ll descend on the country eight years from now, it’s going to great lengths—including building an entire new city from scratch. Read more…
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Qatar’s $45 Billion Plan to Build a Brand New City for the World Cup