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US Supreme Court: Online Threats Aren’t A Crime Unless You Really Meant It
In a closely watched decision that weighs the protection of free speech against protecting people from online abuse, the United States Supreme Court today ruled in favour of people being scary dicks on the internet.
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Facebook Wants To Send You Encrypted Emails
Looks like Facebook is as wary of Big Brother as the rest of us. Facebook is testing an experimental encryption feature as a safeguard against surveillance.
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Silk Road Drug Kingpin Ross Ulbricht Sentenced To Life In Prison
Ross Ulbricht, the California hippie convicted for founding notorious online drug market Silk Road, has been sentenced to life in prison.
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Pentagon Knuckleheads Mistakenly Sent Anthrax To Canada And Australia
Remember when we found out that a Defence Department lab sent live anthrax from a Utah Army lab to 28 different places in the US and one military base in South Korea? It didn’t stop there: The deadly lab samples were also sent to Canada and Australia.