The ISP under legal pressure to block The Pirate Bay in Sweden has criticized efforts to make the provider an accomplice in other people’s crimes. In a joint statement two key executives of Telenor / Bredbandsbolaget warn that folding to the wishes of private copyright holder interests could mark the beginning of the end for the open Internet.
Source: Pirate Bay Censorship Marks the End of Open Internet, ISP Warns – TorrentFreak
The government’s $25 billion foreclosure fraud settlement with the big banks looks pathetic when you consider they could have been on the hook for trillions.
Source: $5M Jury Award for One Foreclosure Fraud Makes U.S. Punishment Look Trivial
the new head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, demanded that all the federal government agencies that received the report should return it to him so he can destroy it and make sure that no one ever sees what’s in the report.
Source: DOJ Has Blocked Everyone In The Executive Branch From Reading The Senate’s Torture Report | Techdirt
The Washington Post published a story so horrifying this weekend that it would stop your breath: “The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.”
Source: FBI’s flawed forensics expert testimony: Hair analysis, bite marks, fingerprints, arson.
Indictment alleges judge offered “a couple of cases of beer” as payment.
Source: Judge tried to bribe FBI agent with beer to get family’s text messages | Ars Technica
Bipartisan committee to probe Turing and its ilk about pricing practices
Source: $750/pill pharma company under investigation by Senate for price gouging | Ars Technica
“ExxonMobil is pursuing legal action against Nielsen Spirits for violating our trademark rights by using a three-stroke interlocking X design in the logo for its new ‘Roxx Vodka’ beverage, and using a three-stroke interlocking X design alone,” Holbrook said. “The public associates the three-stroke interlocking X design with ‘Exxon’ and ‘ExxonMobil,’ and they represent a valuable part of ExxonMobil’s branding. ExxonMobil has protected its three-stroke interlocking X design with numerous trademark registrations, and has been using its three-stroke interlocking X design both alone and as part of ExxonMobil’s distinctive family of ‘Exxon’ and ‘ExxonMobil’ marks for decades.”
Source: Exxon Sues Roxx Vodka Over Xs: Oil And Vodka Are Oh So Similar | Techdirt
Security measures under “full system review.” Agency considering using dogs.
Source: TSA airport screeners’ ability to detect weapons declared “pitiful” | Ars Technica
When a computer “spits out something, you’d like to know how it did it.”
Source: Secret source code pronounces you guilty as charged [Updated] | Ars Technica
Dr. Navindra Persaud has been fighting for four years to get access to thousands of pages of drug industry documents being held by Health Canada.
He finally received the material a few weeks ago, but now he’s being prevented from revealing what he has discovered.
That’s because Health Canada required him to sign a confidentiality agreement, and has threatened him with legal action if he breaks it.
