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FBI Seeks Disasters Social App and Twitter Announces Censorship

The FBI is looking to develop an emergencies early warning system that works by “scraping” information in real time from social networks.  The US policing and intelligence bureau has asked contractors to suggest possible solutions and to come up with ways in which this might work.  In a post on the Federal Business Opportunities website [...]

Categories: The Web

FBI Smashes cyber-crime ring

The FBI claims to have cracked a major cyber-crime network and made more than 100 arrests in the US according to the BBC.  The suspected members worked as mules for fraudsters based in Eastern-Europe who sole around $70m from companies and consumers in the US by hacking into their computer systems. The FBI worked with police [...]

Categories: Hacking, Security

Data Retention laws on the uprise

Well what do we have here ? FBI director Robert Mueller wants that service providers record their customers online activities with the same lame excuses that men like him come always up with: Protecting minors and terrorism. Let me get something straight here. Terrorists are not uneducated, they know how to build explosives, they know how to work with computers. They especially now about encryption.

Categories: Knowledge, Security

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