"The hidden side of your soul": How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot
That child porn site might just be run by the FBI.
Australian High Court rules ISPs need not act on private infringement notices
The Australian High Court has ruled that Internet providers have no duty to act on the copyright infringement notices they receive from rights holders. Such notices amount to mere allegations that...
Sextortion: Rural Indiana man accused of making 14-year old boys into "cam slaves"
On February 26, a 14-year old boy in Oakland County, Michigan broke down into hysterics. He told his brother that he had spent the week making sexually explicit videos with his...
US government: We hear there’s child porn on those Megaupload servers, judge!
Carpathia Hosting, which owns over 600 servers leased by Megaupload before the government shut down the file-sharing site, has a problem: those servers are worth serious money, but no one is paying the bills.
Megaupload want......
Hacking Scarlett Johansson—and 50 other celebs—using Google and gumption
On November 13, 2010, 34-year old Jacksonville, Florida resident Christopher Chaney went hunting for unreleased nude photos of celebrities. According to court documents, he had the e-mail address for celebrity stylist...
This American Life retracts hugely popular episode on Apple and China
Well-loved radio show This American Life—spawned from station WBEZ right here in Chicago—has some "difficult news" about one its most popular shows, an episode on Apple and labor conditions in China....
SOPA masala: 387 Indian ISPs must block 104 piratical websites
The recent Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), considered and eventually abandoned by the US Congress after rancorous debate earlier this year, proposed giving judges the power to cut off American access...
FBI, stumped by pimp’s Android pattern lock, serves warrant on Google
The FBI can't get into a pimp's Android phone—so it wants Google to hand over the keys.
In addition to accessing the phone, agents also want Google to turn over e-mail searches,...
Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England
A 23-year old student from Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England is bound for America. That wouldn't be unusual—except that Richard O'Dwyer won't go voluntarily. The UK Home Secretary...
"Great personal danger": Inside hacker Sabu’s guilty plea hearing
The hacker known as "Sabu" inspired fear in corporations and loyalty from his LulzSec/Anonymous associates, but when he showed up in a Lower Manhattan federal courtroom on August 15, 2011, he...
FBI names, arrests Anon who infiltrated its secret conference call
On January 17, 2012, a hacker affiliated with the group Anonymous managed to infiltrate and record an international conference call between members of the FBI and UK police on the topic...
"Algorithms can have errors": One man’s quest to purge horrific pictures from his Google results
Last week, we covered the story of Camping Alfaques, a Spanish vacation spot whose owner recently sued Google in a local court. His concern: top search results that feature grisly images...
