Do you recall the all-seeing Big Brother and terrorism prevention system that Microsoft and the New York Police Department launched in August 2012, otherwise called the Domain Awareness System?
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Have you downloaded any pirated movies, music or eBooks via a BitTorrent client lately? If yes, then you probably had your IP address logged by copyright cops within three hours of joining a swarm. Opting not to hide your IP behind a VPN or proxy in favor of P2P blocklists doesn’t offer file-sharers much protection from the “massive monitoring” activities by anti-piracy groups. Read more
Holy *bleep*! Federal, state, and local law enforcement requested about 1.3 million cellphone records from wireless carriers in 2011 . . . and that doesn’t count T-Mobile since the company failed to give numbers. “I never expected it to be this massive,” said Rep. Edward Markey about the mobile surveillance numbers after he and Rep. Read more
There’s been no shortage of OWS video footage and some of the outrageous stunts the cops have pulled, but it caused another Anonymous hacker to lock and load on the police. From a land of cracked hashes, located somewhere over the rainbow tables, comes an AntiSec dump of the “entire member database” from C.L.E.A.R. Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail. The hacker, Exphin1ty, claimed to be a part…
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