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Two ‘ViLE’ Cybercrime Gang Members Charged With Hacking Federal Law Enforcement Data Portal
Last year, cybercriminals started using a novel tactic to pilfer subscriber data from social media companies: using stolen passwords purchased on the dark web, digital hoods would hack into police email accounts, then use their access to file something called an emergency data request, or EDR. A type of urgent subpoena that requires no court…
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You Really Don’t Want the Government to Be Your Content Moderator
“All governments lie,” the leftist journalist I.F. Stone once said. Stone wasn’t trying to be provocative, merely pointing out that there’s a pretty basic reason we have a free press in the United States: the government is not a reliable narrator. Governments aren’t inherent liars; they just don’t always have a good reason to tell…
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Border Agents Are Grabbing Data From Americans’ Phones Without Warrants and Storing It for 15 Years
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden says his office was informed this summer that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is building a massive database with content seized from Americans’ mobile phones at the border. Without warrants, the agency permits thousands of employees to search the database “for any reason,” the Oregon senator said.
