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Tue, Apr 27th 2021 6:32am — Tim Cushing In late March, the UKs National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) started injecting its anti-encryption views into the major papers via some press releases and statements claiming encryption was the "biggest threat to children online." It also claimed its stance was supported by a soon-to-be-released report, which had gathered opinions and analysis from a number of stakeholders. Its report debuted a few weeks later. Put together ...

Tue, Apr 27th 2021 10:46am — Tim Cushing You can be angry about things said about you in court filings. But you really cant sue about them. Reporting based on court documents is almost (!) always protected by the First Amendment. After all, those making the statements in court are swearing what theyre saying is true. Those reporting on sworn statements have no reason to believe otherwise, even if its eventually revealed the assertions were false. Thats the tough lesson being learned by Jason ...

Mon, Apr 26th 2021 6:25am — Tim Cushing A pretty hilarious turn of events has led to Cellebrites phone hacking tech being hacked by Signals Moxie Marlinspike, revealing the tech law enforcement uses to pull data from seized phones is host to major security flaws. By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. As I got closer, the dull enterprise typeface slowly came into focus: Cellebrite. Inside, we found the latest...

Mon, Apr 26th 2021 12:11pm — Tim Cushing Even though Florida didnt see many of the anti-police violence protests that spread across the nation in the wake of the George Floyd killing, its legislature and its governor have apparently decided protesters have it too easy. Governor Ron DeSantis feels the best approach to handling people fed up with police brutality and their lack of accountability is to throw more protesters (and rioters) in jail more often, and for longer. The law defines “rio...

Wed, Apr 21st 2021 4:36am — Tim Cushing A stash of public records recently obtained by BuzzFeed shows far more law enforcement agencies have experimented with Clearviews facial recognition software than previously acknowledged. The searchable data shows Clearview is still something law enforcement is interested in experimenting with. And theres probably more to this story, given that nearly 1,200 agencies refused to respond to BuzzFeeds requests. Clearview boasts something most other facial r...

Wed, Apr 21st 2021 9:38am — Tim Cushing This isnt an endpoint. This is only a beginning. This is one small step forward for accountability. It doesnt change the police culture that not only allows, but encourages, this sort of force deployment. But it does send the warning that juries may not be as deferential to police officers as theyve been historically. want to do it. Too many prosecutors would rather not expend the effort needed to hold their comrades-in-arms accountable for their action...

Tue, Apr 20th 2021 9:44am — Tim Cushing Trump supporter and pillow manufacturer Mike Lindell was among those sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems over weeks of wild allegations about voter fraud that followed Donald Trumps loss at the polls in the 2020 election. Mike Lindell and his company, MyPillow, joined such luminaries as Rudy Giuliani and former Trump legal team member Sidney Powell as a recipient of a billion-dollar libel lawsuit. Now, Mike Lindell is fighting back. Hes attem...

Tue, Apr 20th 2021 11:53am — Tim Cushing With this hovering in the air, another senseless killing by an officer set everything off. Again. 26-year-veteran officer Kim Potter (who served a year as the head of the police union) turned a "routine traffic stop" into a homicide when Daunte Wright broke free from another officer and jumped back into his car. Potter yelled "Taser! Taser! Taser!" while pointing her gun at Wright. She shot him once, which was enough to kill him. Potters service weapo...

Mon, Apr 19th 2021 6:35am — Tim Cushing Great news, everyone! The FBI has been fighting a cyberwar on your behalf… perhaps utilizing your own computer. Heres Zack Whittaker with some details: A court in Houston has authorized an FBI operation to “copy and remove” backdoors from hundreds of Microsoft Exchange email servers in the United States, months after hackers used four previously undiscovered vulnerabilities to attack thousands of networks. The Justice Department announced the oper...

Mon, Apr 19th 2021 12:14pm — Tim Cushing The NYPD has an uneasy relationship with Clearview. The facial recognition startup -- one that has compiled a database of millions of images by scraping info from social media platforms and other websites -- claimed in an emailed pitch that the nations largest police force used its software to identify a suspected terrorist. Thats not what actually happened, said the NYPD. It didnt use Clearview (even though it had experimented with it). Instead, the N...