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How the cloud helped police warm up to body-worn cameras

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The technology for body-worn cameras has been around for years, but it wasn’t until this past year that law enforcement agencies have moved to adopt them in significant numbers.

Of course, a big part of the reason was the fallout from several high-profile incidents involving law enforcement’s controversial use of deadly force, bookended by the ensuing riots in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, and in Baltimore just last month. These reactions made it clear how important body-worn cameras could be, to the point that the Ferguson police department implemented the devices just weeks after Michael Brown’s shooting.

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Network World Colin Neagle

Toxin-buying teen finds police waiting for him on the dark web

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A 16-year-old boy who attempted to buy a deadly toxin from the deep web to “commit suicide” was charged after finding police waiting for him on the deep web.
Naked Security – Sophos

Massachusetts police department pays $500 CryptoLocker ransom

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A Massachusetts police department paid $ 500 to free up town files that had been encrypted by CryptoLocker, the ransomware that locks down hard drives until the owners pay up.

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Police in Tewksbury, Mass., came up with the ransom after four or five days when they realized they could not break the encryption and needed the attackers to send them the private key in order to access the data.

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Network World Tim Greene

Judge saves bacon of woman who smeared some on window inside police station

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A month ago I brought you the story of a woman who tossed and smeared meat products – bacon and sausage – at a police officer working behind a glass window in Framingham, Mass. The story caught my eye because it happened just across town from Network World headquarters and the woman involved shares my surname, though to my knowledge no close relatives.

The bizarre episode garnered widespread media attention – thanks primarily to the accompanying surveillance video – and now a judge has resolved the legal case. From a MetroWest Daily News report:

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Network World Paul McNamara