Tag archive: Police

Racking up nearly 12 million views on YouTube over the last 72 hours, a North Carolina man named Tommy Jordan, father of a fifteen-year old teenage girl named Hannah, decided to respond to his daughter's complaints about their family life. His daughter posted a lengthy rant about her parents on Facebook and attempted to hide the post with the privacy settings Facebook provides for all users. However, her father somehow ended up with a… Read More

The Brazilian government has requested an injunction against Twitter that would block Twitter users from alerting drivers about sobriety checkpoints, road blocks, and speed traps. The Brazilian government views tweets about police and traffic enforcement operations as undermining efforts to improve road safety and reduce traffic accidents—and the tweets also help out car thieves and folks who are transporting illegal goods by enabling them to… Read More

It must be nerve-racking for any cop when they approach a suspect who has their hands in their pockets, not knowing if the encounter will be a routine one without incident or a hair-raising one that descends into a life-threatening shoot-out. If only the cop could somehow know in advance if the person they’re approaching is armed. Well, soon they should be able to. A device being developed by the NYPD uses infrared rays to scan a suspect’s body… Read More

According to a story in the Associated Press, a woman in Utah and her 17-month old baby were removed from a home where they were being held captive for the past five days after the woman posted a Facebook status update pleading for help. According to an account from the hostage, she ducked into a nearby closet with her laptop and wrote ”Hello…is anyone out there? I am having a serious problem and me and (my son) will be dead by… Read More

After 31-year-old Loromin Sar was informed that his local Best Buy in Aurora, Colorado ran out of copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, his first thought was to inform store employees that he would be back to blow up the store with some sort of explosive device. He also informed several Best Buy employees that he would return as they got off work in order to shoot them. Sar had preordered the game earlier in the day and was expecting to… Read More

When Ambre Boroughs checked her laptop bag before getting on a Southwest flight at the Chicago Midway International Airport, she was likely unaware that many airlines strongly recommend taking the laptop was a carry-on during the flight. Unfortunately, she was missing her brand new HP 9000 laptop after searching an empty laptop bag that came off the conveyor belt in Charleston, South Carolina according to NBC Chicago. After asking a Southwest… Read More

Over the weekend, computer hacking group Anonymous announced plans to specifically target the New York Stock Exchange on October 10 and claims to “erase” the NYSE from the Internet on that day. Titled Operation Invade Wall Street in support for the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City and other cities around the United States, Anonymous likely plans to use Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to target the… Read More

Recently shown off at a recent competition for security professionals, a new design on the classic bulletproof vest created by Laipac Technology includes GPS technology as well as a variety of body sensors built within the vest. Ideal for military soldiers, tactical law enforcement and VIP clients, the GPS integration allows for a separate team to track the location of the vest as well as the speed of travel and the general direction. In… Read More

Hackers continue to target BART for the transit system's recent anti-protest actions. Information on 102 Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers—including names, home addresses, e-mail addresses and passwords—was released to Pastbin today. The hackers who leaked the data claim they belong to the hacktivist group anonymous. The information on the officers was ripped from a BART affiliated website called bartpoa.com, home to the BART police… Read More

On Tuesday, the Seattle police department launched a 12-hour experiment that posted all 911 emergency calls into the official @SeattlePD Twitter feed. This test was intended to give the public a better understanding of the call volume and types of reports that flood into the emergency call centers. The flow of tweets began at 6 a.m. and sent about 40 tweets an hour into the feeds to about 10,000 followers.  By 6 p.m., the account had increased… Read More

After making the top-ten list of most wanted criminals on the Utica police department website, Ruben J. Burgos thought it would be an absolutely brilliant idea to promote his infamy on Facebook and taunt police with the phrase “Catch me if you can, I'm in Brooklyn” on his personal Facebook page. Burgos continued down this path of pure genius by also posting a video of himself walking into an unidentified NYPD station house… Read More

When a major car collision occurs in the United Kingdom, the police investigators are obviously sent to the scene to record all details of the crash. This process requires an extensive amount of time in order to record all details for upcoming court proceedings and insurance purposes. The accident scene must stay untouched during the investigation, thus the cost of delaying commerce becomes extremely high. The process can easily take many hours… Read More

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange once called Facebook “the most appalling spying machine ever invented.” And based on a new report from Reuters, it seems as though he's 100 percent right. An extensive review of the Westlaw legal database by Reuters reveals that law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining search warrants to snoop into users' Facebook accounts, often without the users — or their Facebook friends —… Read More

Big Brother is watching you — but now, with a new set of apps from citizens group OpenWatch, you can spy on that nosy punk right back. Started by 23-year-old Boston University graduate and self-described “hacker” Rich Jones, OpenWatch describes itself as “a participatory citizen media project aiming to provide documentary evidence of uses and abuses of power.” To achieve this goal, Jones created two apps, CopRecorder and… Read More

Tennessee lawmakers think that sharing a Netflix password is like stealing cable. Today, lawmakers in the state passed a new measure that criminalizes using a friend's login for entertainment services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, or Rhapsody. All the bill needs now is the governor's signature, and the AP reports that Gov. Bill Haslam is expected to sign the bill. “I don't know enough about that legislation, but if it's… Read More