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Mugshot sites and mugshot removal sites: unholy blackmail symbiosis
Wired's David Kravets has a long look at the sleazy world of online mugshot blackmail. Rob Wiggen, a convicted fraudster, founded Florida.arrests.org when he got out of prison. It scrapes Florida's...
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Court threatens sanctions against sleazy copyright troll lawyer
Virginia district court Judge John A. Gibney has threatened to sanction D. Wayne O'Bryan, a personal injury lawyer with a sideline in copyright threats on behalf of pornographers. O'Bryan used...
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Urmann is a German copyright troll law firm that represents hardcore pornographers, sending shakedown notices to accused downloaders, threatening to publicly link them with porn unless they pay...
View ArticleAnatomy of a patent troll who wants $1000 from every scanner user in America:...
Joe Mullin's Ars Technica piece, "Patent trolls want $1,000—for using scanners," is an excellent, blood-boiling piece detailing the ease with which the US patent system can be used for pure extortion....
View ArticlePorno copyright trolls Malibu Media sanctioned by court for "extortionate"...
Malibu Media is a notorious porno-copyright-troll, a company whose business-model is sending blackmail letters to Internet users threatening to sue them for downloading pornographic movies (and...
View ArticleComment-spammers threaten to sabotage their victims through Google Disavow if...
Tim got an email from someone trying to get rid of comment spams -- ever since Google started punishing sites that left comment spam on blogs, this has been going on a lot. When Tim told the guy to...
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David Cameron will publish the financial details and viewing habits of all UK...
That's not what he says, of course: he just says that all porn sites will have to gather and retain proof of identity (eg credit-card details) to ensure that their users are over 18 or they'll be...
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Rightscorp teams up with lawyers to mass-sue people who ignore blackmail letters
The publicly traded company warned investors that its plan of sending "invoices" to people its sloppy piracy-bots fingered as pirates wasn't working out so well, so now they've found a law firm...
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Giant dump of data purports to be from Ashleymadison.com
The dating site for people wanting to cheat on their spouses was breached last month. (more…)
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Hackers steal a hospital in Hollywood
A hospital is a computer we put sick people into, so when ransomware creeps infected the hospital's IT systems and encrypted all their data, they asked for a whopping $3.6m to turn the data loose...
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Olympics to companies: mentioning "Olympics" in social media is a trademark...
The US Olympics Committee has sent a letter to companies that sponsor athletes but don't sponsor the games, warning them that mentioning the Olympics in social media is a trademark violation. (more…)
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Web companies can track you -- and price-gouge you -- based on your battery life
In Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis, eminent Princeton security researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan document the use of device battery levels -- accessible...
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Kellyanne Conway: lies are "alternative facts" and if the press says...
Donald Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer inaugurated his first day on the job by telling easily falsifiable lies about the relative sizes of the Trump inauguration crowds and those of the Obama...
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President Trump attempted to "blackmail" TV hosts with threat of tabloid...
Yesterday, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough were subject to typical (if unusually gross) insults from the President of the United States, leading to a standard round of milquetoast...
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Missouri GOP governor accused of blackmailing married lover with nude pics....
The short, weird political career of Eric Greitens -- a former Navy Seal and onetime Democrat turned secrecy-cloaked Republican and the youngest Governor ever elected in Missouri -- may be at its end....
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Porn blackmailers supercharge their scam with password dumps, make bank
The porn extortion scam works like this: you get an email from a stranger claiming that he hacked your computer and recorded video of you masturbating to pornography, which he'll release unless you...
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Chinese spies force US-based Uighurs into "voluntary" surveillance by...
The Chinese state crackdown on the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority -- involving the imprisonment and torture of upwards of a million people in brainwashing camps -- isn't limited to China itself....
View ArticleAxon makes false statements to town that bought its police bodycams,...
Axon -- formerly Taser International -- makes police bodycams that they sell to towns on the cheap, betting that they'll make it up by gouging the towns for cloud-based storage for footage from the...
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National Association of Realtors president resigns, saying she's received a...
Tracy Kasper is resigning as the National Association of Realtors' president after someone tried to blackmail her, she says. Kasper described this as "a threat to disclose a past personal,...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene floats her new conspiracy theory: Mike Johnson is...
Georgia's top conspiracist is at it again. Marjorie Taylor Greene, best known for her expertise on Jewish space lasers, has a theory on what caused Speaker Mike Johnson's sudden transformation from a...
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