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Video of arrest prompts investigation

wishtv.com

August 1, 2013

An I-Team 8 investigation has prompted IMPD to launch an immediate internal investigation, after seeing video of an arrest a police officer made in the lobby of the JW Marriott in Indianapolis.

An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer was called to a dispute in the lobby of the JW Marriott in September. The hotel's video cameras recorded the dispute involving a business owner from Maryland who was in town for a convention. He and his employee were seen speaking to hotel security in the video. Then police arrive. Within 16 seconds, the officer is seen throwing the 60-year-old business owner to the ground.

Pepsi admits its soda contains cancer-causing ingredients

wisemindhealthybody.com

March 31, 2018

When the Center for Environmental Health released test results showing that Pepsi intentionally covered up the presence of high levels of 4-Mel in its popular soft drinks in 2013, the company denied both the presence of this chemical in its beverages...

And the fact that it was dangerous. 4-Mel, which is short for 4-Methylimidazole, is a compound that is formed in the manufacturing of caramel coloring, and is a known carcinogen. Since then, the drinks maker has fought against complying with California state requirements to place a cancer warning label on the beverages that contain the ingredient, which include not only Pepsi, but also Diet Pepsi and Pepsi One.

U.S. Marshals Seize Cops' Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU

Wired.com

by Kim Zetter

June 3, 2014

A routine request in Florida for public records regarding the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray took an extraordinary turn recently when federal authorities seized the documents before police could release them.

The surprise move by the U.S. Marshals Service stunned the American Civil Liberties Union, which earlier this year filed the public records request with the Sarasota, Florida, police department for information detailing its use of the controversial surveillance tool. The ACLU had an appointment last Tuesday to review documents pertaining to a case investigated by a Sarasota police detective. But marshals swooped in at the last minute to grab the records, claiming they belong to the U.S. Marshals Service and barring the police from releasing them. ACLU staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler called the move "truly extraordinary and beyond the worst transparency violations" the group has seen regarding documents detailing police use of the technology.

If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox

Wired.com

by Kevin Poulsen

January 27, 2014

While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail.

Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations. The bureau's data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom Hosting, surfaced in court papers last week when prosecutors indicted a Florida man for allegedly selling counterfeit credit cards online. The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: "platplus@tormail.net." Acting on that lead in September, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed it from the bureau's own copy of "data and information from the TorMail e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts," according to the complaint (.pdf) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.

Feds Are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity

Wired.com

by Kevin Poulsen

August 5, 2013

Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.

The malware showed up Sunday morning on multiple websites hosted by the anonymous hosting company Freedom Hosting. That would normally be considered a blatantly criminal "drive-by" hack attack, but nobody's calling in the FBI this time. The FBI is the prime suspect. "It just sends identifying information to some IP in Reston, Virginia," says reverse-engineer Vlad Tsyrklevich. "It's pretty clear that it's FBI or it's some other law enforcement agency that's U.S.-based." If Tsrklevich and other researchers are right, the code is likely the first sample captured in the wild of the FBI's "computer and internet protocol address verifier," or CIPAV, the law enforcement spyware first reported by WIRED in 2007.

How Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy

Wired.com

July 23, 2013

There's a funny catch-22 when it comes to privacy best practices. The very techniques that experts recommend to protect your privacy from government and commercial tracking could be at odds with the antiquated, vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).

A number of researchers (including me) recently joined an amicus brief (filed by Stanford's Center for Internet and Society in the "Weev" case), arguing how security and privacy researchers are put at risk by this law. However, I'd also like to make the case here that the CFAA is bad privacy policy for consumers, too. It's not just something that affects hackers and academics. The crux of a CFAA violation hinges on whether or not an action allows a user to gain "access without authorization" or "exceed authorized access" to a computer. The scary part, therefore, is when these actions involve everyday behaviors like clearing cookies, changing browser reporting, using VPNs, and even protecting one's mobile phone from being identified.

NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say

Wired.com

by David Kravets

July 19, 2013

The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the "public interest," does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law. Thursday's response marks the first time the administration has officially answered one of at least four lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of a secret U.S. snooping program the Guardian newspaper disclosed last month. The administration's filing sets the stage for what is to be a lengthy legal odyssey - one likely to outlive the Obama presidency - that will define the privacy rights of Americans for years to come. The New York federal district court lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, demands a federal judge immediately halt the spy program the civil rights group labeled as "one of the largest surveillance efforts ever launched by a democratic government."

American Gets Targeted by Digital Spy Tool Sold to Foreign Governments

Wired.com

by Kim Zetter

June 4, 2013

The email appeared to come from a trusted colleague at a renowned academic institution and referenced a subject that was a hot-button issue for the recipient, including a link to a website where she could obtain more information about it.

But when the recipient looked closely at the sender's email address, a tell-tale misspelling gave the phishing attempt away - the email purported to come from a professor at Harvard University, but instead of harvard.edu, the email address read "hardward.edu". Not exactly a professional con-job from nation-state hackers, but that's exactly who may have sent the email to an American woman, who believes she was targeted by forces in Turkey connected to or sympathetic to the powerful Gülen Movement, which has infiltrated parts of the Turkish government.

FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed

Wired.com

by Julian Sanchez

May 10, 2013

The FBI has some strange ideas about how to "update" federal surveillance laws: They're calling for legislation to penalize online services that provide users with too much security.

I'm not kidding. The proposal was revealed in The Washington Post last week - and a couple days ago, a front-page story in The New York Times reported the Obama administration is preparing to back it. Why? Federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI have long feared their wiretap capabilities would begin "going dark" as criminals and terrorists - along with ordinary citizens - shift from telephone networks, which are required to be wiretap-ready under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), to the dizzying array of online communications platforms available today. While it's not yet clear how dire the going-dark scenario really is, the statutory "cure" proposed by the FBI - with fines starting at $25,000 a day for companies that aren't wiretap capable - would surely be worse than the disease.

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest

Wired.com

by David Kravets

January 25, 2013

A VA man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.

Aaron Tobey claimed in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) that in 2010 he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker protest of airport security measures. "Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated," his chest and gut read. In sending the case to trial, unless there's a settlement, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 and reversed a lower court judge and invoked Benjamin Franklin in the process.

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