Archive for August, 2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Privacy Badger
August 6th, 2015Looks good. Via: EFF: How is Privacy Badger different to Disconnect, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and other blocking extensions? Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well […]
Idaho Sheriff Guarding U.S. Navy Veteran Against Federal Gun Confiscation
August 6th, 2015Via: AP: A group of residents in northern Idaho have lined outside a U.S. Navy veteran’s house to protest claims that federal officials are planning on confiscating the man’s weapons. Idaho Republican state Rep. Heather Scott says the Veteran Affairs office has sent a letter to John Arnold of Priest River warning him that he […]
Britain: Police Investigate Child Sex Abuse Claims Against Former Prime Minister
August 6th, 2015Via: CNN: At least four UK police forces are independently investigating claims that include child sexual abuse involving the late British Prime Minister Edward Heath. The allegations about Heath, who led a Conservative government from 1970 to 1974 and only left Parliament in 2001, have dominated UK newspaper headlines this week. They come at a […]
Denver DA Charges Man with Jury Tampering for Handing Out Jury Nullification Flyers
August 6th, 2015Via: Denver Post: Denver prosecutors have charged a man with seven counts of jury tampering after they say he tried to influence jurors by passing out literature on jury nullification on Monday. Mark Iannicelli, 56, set up a small booth with a sign that said “Juror Info” in front of the city’s Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse courthouse, […]
NSA Tried Stuxnet Cyber-Attack on North Korea Five Years Ago but Failed
August 6th, 2015Via: Guardian: The US tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign. The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear programme in 2009 and 2010 by […]
China to Plant Internet Police in Top Online Firms
August 5th, 2015Via: PC World: China’s control over the Internet is set to expand. In a bid to better police local websites, the country’s security forces are establishing offices at the biggest online firms in the country. The country’s Ministry of Public Security announced the new measures on Tuesday, at a time when authorities have been increasingly […]
Saudi Arabia May Go Broke Before the U.S. Oil Industry Buckles
August 5th, 2015No more Fed-Exing the Lamborghinis to London for oil changes? Via: Telegraph: If the oil futures market is correct, Saudi Arabia will start running into trouble within two years. It will be in existential crisis by the end of the decade. The contract price of US crude oil for delivery in December 2020 is currently […]
Chicago Police Detained Thousands of Black Americans at Interrogation Facility
August 5th, 2015Via: Guardian: At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal. Of the thousands held in the facility known as Homan Square over a decade, 82% were black. Only three received documented visits from an attorney, according […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Facing Three Felony Indictments
August 3rd, 2015Via: WFFA: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail Monday morning on three felony indictments. Paxton’s security detail drove him in a black Chevy Tahoe into a garage at the jail and away from cameras. The attorney general did not appear in public. Once inside, Paxton was fingerprinted, photographed, booked and […]
Puerto Rico Fails to Make $58-Million Debt Payment
August 3rd, 2015Via: AP: The government of Puerto Rico confirmed Monday that it had failed to make a $58-million debt payment, a significant escalation of the fiscal crisis facing the U.S. island territory.
