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FBI Drops All Charges In Child Porn Case To Keep Sketchy Spying Methods Secret
US federal prosecutors have dropped all charges against a Washington man who allegedly downloaded explicit photos of minors from Playpen, a popular child pornography site on the dark web that was briefly run by the FBI.
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The FBI’s Colossal Failure Investigating GamerGate
I hope Franz Kafka brought a change of underwear. (Image: FBI) A member of Reddit GamerGate hub KotakuinAction filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents pertaining to the FBI’s investigation of the online movement which they received last month. Now those documents have been made public, and amid its 173 heavily-redacted pages is…
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Over A Dozen FBI Agents Hospitalised After Million Dollar Sculpture Makes Them Sick
When a 5m tall wooden sculpture was installed in the FBI’s Miami field office in 2015, the US government thought it was getting a great deal. The General Services Administration (GSA) commissioned the work and estimated that it was “likely worth more than the $750,000 [$AU1 million] the government paid.” But it’s currently sitting in…
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FBI Ran 23 Child Porn Websites: Report
A new report from Ars Technica on documents unsealed by the American Civil Liberties Union show that the FBI may have operated 23 child pornography websites on the dark web.