Tag: crime
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UK’s secret Apple iCloud backdoor order is a global emergency, say critics
The UK seems to be strongarming Apple to weaken the security of its consumer products, which is fucking stupid. Weakened and backdoored encryption in mainstream products doesn't help catch smart criminals. But it does help smart criminals to catch regular folks.
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Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning
What if Weird Al wrote the original versions of the songs the covered, and the other artists did the parody covers? With "thanks" to AI voice deepfake technology, and some work by Andy Baio, we can answer that question.
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How to date a recording using background electrical noise
Robert Heaton shares some specifics of EMF forensics, and Dan reconsiders an idea he had years ago for a hardware spoofer.
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Coco the Criminal and Peanut the Prophet
After squirrels steal his bird feeder, Dan wonders about their motives... and what happened next.
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Parcel Delivery Scammers Could Try Harder
Dan dissects SMS parcel fraud scams and suggests four ways in which tomorrow's fraudsters might be smarter and more-dangerous than todays.
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The Perfect Art Heist: Hack the Money, Leave the Painting
A comic telling the story of a John Constable painting targetted by thieves in 2018 for an unusual heist.
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There’s Really No Easy Way to Say 'I Was Stabbed'
Author Emma Berquist writes about her experience of the (extremely unusual) incident she was involved in, of being stabbed by a stranger in a park in Wellington.
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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What Kind of Person Steals Their Co-workers' Lunch?
For the past month or two, my place of work (this very website) has been plagued by a relatively harmless but deeply mystifying figure: the phantom lunch thief. What’s happened since has followed a trajectory sure to be familiar to anyone who’s ever worked in an office with more than, say, 30 employees: a … -
Taking Stock, Fraud
Taking Stock, Fraud Article (Inc.com) Nowadays, fraudulent online stock-trading schemes are common. But even before the first electric telegraph, two bankers committed the equivalent of modern-day Internet stock fraud. Nowadays, fraudulent online stock-trading schemes are common. But even before the first electric telegraph, two bankers committed the equivalent of modern-day Internet stock fraud.
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Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport
Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport (The Marshall Project) Tens of thousands of people every year are packed into vans run by for-profit companies with almost no oversight.
In July 2012, Steven Galack, the former owner of a home remodeling business, was living in Florida when he was arrested on an out-of-state warrant … -
I'm Being Harassed
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A Russian Slot Machine Hack Is Costing Casinos Big Time
In early June 2014, accountants at the Lumiere Place Casino in St. Louis noticed that several of their slot machines had—just for a couple of days—gone haywire. The government-approved software that powers such machines gives the house a fixed mathematical edge, so that casinos can be certain of how much they’ll earn over the long … -
Wake Me Up When September Begins
Between the death of his old phone, a couple of different health-related issues, and now the theft of his bike, Dan's having a pretty shitty month. Let's hope that September's better.
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Beware: Necrophiliac Paramedics!
If Dan is killed on his way to work and his lifeless body is raped by a necrophiliac paramedic, it's JTA's fault. You read it here first.