In the summer of 2010, a young black man was stopped and questioned by police on the streets of Miami Gardens, Florida. According to the report filled out by the officer, he was “wearing gray sweatpants, a red hoodie and black gloves” giving the police “just cause” to question him. In the report, he was labeled a “suspicious person.”
He was an 11-year-old boy on his way to football practice.
A Fusion investigation has found that he was just one of 56,922 people who were stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens Police Department (MGPD) between 2008 and 2013. That’s the equivalent of more than half of the city’s population.
Not one of them was arrested.
Author: KS
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TrueCrypt is down…
To me, this smells quite a lot like a NSL (National Security Letter) or similar.
Perhaps even an order to put a back door into TrueCrypt.
To quote one commenter at Techdirt:
It’s gotta be either a compromised key or a hidden message. The development team wouldn’t in their right minds advise people to move from TrueCrypt to Bitlocker–that’s clearly ludicrous. The fact that they haven’t made any clarifications to their statement is equally telling, and it’s pretty easy to do the math. My guess is that they are under a gag order
That isn’t really a denial, UPS
Regarding the case where NSA was accused of intercepting and planting back doors into Cisco equipment, UPS has issued a “denial”:
UPS, which Cisco has used since 1997 to ship hardware to customers around the world, said on Thursday that it did not voluntarily allow government officials to inspect its packages unless it is required to do so by law.
“Voluntarily” and “unless required to do so by law”. So they might be doing it, then.
Europe just banished free speech on the internet
(…) an absolutely insane ruling that came out of the European Court of Human Rights last fall, in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia, which basically said that any website that allows comments can be liable for those comments. In fact, it found that even when sites took down comments (automatically!) following complaints, they can still be liable, because they should have blocked those comments from going up in the first place. Bizarrely, the court basically says the site should have known that the article in question might lead to negative reactions, and therefor should have blocked comments:
The US doesn’t do economic spying…
… but not because it doesn’t want to
Former CIA Director And Defense Secretary Says CIA Tried, But Failed, To Do Economic Espionage
But despite his attempt to work with, in his words, five or six commerce secretaries, “I never could get one of them interested in being the facilitator of getting that kind of CIA information to American companies. So this is something we don’t do.”
Wow… WordArt
Impressive. This guy actually uses WordArt on his “search engine”. Also… works only in IE? What year is this? 1997?
In the mood for a good laugh, I decided to take a trip to his webpage (http://letsnotbeevil.com/). The webpage turned out to be an embarrassment. I expected something at least somewhat modern-looking. However, what I found can only be described as garish. He states that the website is designed for Internet Explorer. How cute, someone who has failed to realize that the world has left Internet Explorer behind. Using Google Chrome, I navigated to his website to discover that it was a jumbled mess
Link (YourKickstarterSucks)
Link (Kickstarter)
Link (LetsNotBeEvil)
Do you want a government dicatorship?
… because this is how you get a government dictatorship
“The question is who decides [what to publish]. It seems clear, at least to me, that the private companies that own newspapers, and their employees, should not have the final say over the release of government secrets, and a free pass to make them public with no legal consequences. In a democracy (which, pace Greenwald, we still are), that decision must ultimately be made by the government.”
She should stop being poor
According to Fox News, poor people should stop being poor. That should solve the problem.
Cutting Off Emergency Unemployment Benefits Hasn’t Pushed People Back to Work: Link (FiveThirtyEight)
DOJ Says Americans Have No 4th Amendment Protections At All When They Communicate With Foreigners
(…) it appears the DOJ is trying to attack the idea of the reasonable expectation of privacy that has been the basis of the 4th Amendment in the US. They’re effectively arguing that since foreign governments might look at the info too, you should have no expectation of privacy in any communications with foreigners and thus you’ve waived all 4th Amendment protections in that content.