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
Security measures under “full system review.” Agency considering using dogs.
Source: TSA airport screeners’ ability to detect weapons declared “pitiful” | Ars Technica
As Kim Dotcom’s extradition defense enters its second day, the court has heard that none of the 13 charges against the Megaupload founder are enough to extradite him to the United States. The U.S. is characterizing the alleged offenses as extraditable fraud but Dotcom’s team believes that copyright violations can not be prosecuted as such.
Source: Dotcom: Copyright Charges Not Enough For Extradition – TorrentFreak
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
But our merger with DirecTV was totally fine, AT&T says.
Source: AT&T blasts cable mergers, says cable companies should compete instead | Ars Technica
Rightscorp has been awarded a patent by the Australian Patent Office which should protect it from competitors looking to muscle in on its business model Down Under. The patent protects a system which helps Rightscorp identify repeat infringers, individuals it is now targeting in the United States with settlement demands and lawsuits.
Source: Rightscorp Granted Australian Patent to Chase Pirates – TorrentFreak
In a landmark ruling that will have far-reaching repercussions, Europe’s highest court has ruled that data sharing between the EU and US under the Safe Harbour framework is invalid.
Source: Safe Harbour ruled INVALID: Facebook ‘n’ pals’ data slurp at risk • The Register
From the start, not even the U.S. military had the audacity to try to obscure that they did this. They left that dirty work to their leading media outlets which, as usual, are more than eager and happy to comply.
Source: CNN and the NYT Are Deliberately Obscuring Who Perpetrated the Afghan Hospital Attack
