Tag: lawsuits
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How a Troubled WV Lawyer Foisted a ‘Teen Anal Nightmare’ on the Nation
In September 2010, West Coast Productions—maker of such films as Teen Anal Nightmare 2 and Juicy White Anal Booty 4—paired up with West Virginia lawyer Ken Ford to file a set of mass lawsuits against online file-sharers.
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Sony Forces Gamers to Promise They Won’t Sue En-Masse for Hacks
After being spectacularly hacked multiple times earlier this year, Sony has decided it’s tired of being sued for its security failures and other issues and is requiring gamers on its Play Station Network to sign an agreement saying they won’t join class-action lawsuits to take the tech giant to court in the future.
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Hacker Ring Appears to Make Good On Promise to Expose Celebrities
A ring of hackers that boasted it would pry into celebrities’ phones and e-mail accounts appears to have delivered on that promise. Reported hacks of actresses Scarlett Johannson and Mila Kunis led to racy photos posted on the web.
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8/18 Defcon: Sabotage, Lawsuits & Spacelife
Scotland Yard Four cleared on #Phonehacking // Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire sues NotW publisher // Cyber recruits key part of NSA hiring blitz // Meet Verizon’s newest security force – Blackwater // NASA says Comet Elenin will definitely not hit earth // Video: DNA building blocks found in space
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5/19 Defcon: Blockage, Bills, Threats & Storms
Obama DOJ tries to block unclassified info from NSA leaker trial* new yorker mag sheds new light on nsa’s warrantless wiretapping & data mining* senate bill requires warrant for email, cloud content* senate bill makes illegal internet streaming a felony* bill clinton: create internet agency* US secret service questions 13yr-old over facebook ‘threat’* twitter feed…
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5/12 defcon: secret service, globalhell, expendables
cyberwarfare rules included in defense bill* white house to unveil cyber security proposal* US secret service takes to twitter* after approving nbc buyout, fcc commish becomes comcast lobbyist; fcc chairman applauds colleague departing to become fcc lobbyist* obama meets with giffords, husband (and his identical astro-twin) in florida* giffords aims to return for shuttle launch*…
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12/31 defcon: high chance, top threats & the cloud
top cyber threats of 2011* living with our heads in ‘the cloud’* paul allen tries patent megasuit again* apple sued for app privacy violations* man quits job to sue spammers* with 15 minutes of fame ticking; assange signs $1.5m-worth of book deals* smith, assange, soros & claims that assange is helping the neocons* assange: ‘high…
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
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Corps & Govts: Violating Privacy With Legal Ease
Google Inc. violated Canadian privacy law by collecting personal information from unsecured wireless networks across the country for its Street View service
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Defcon 9/2: Cyborg, Spy School, Asteroids
Intel developing improved mind reading computers // Pentagon may apply preemptive warfare policy to the internet // Judge says Pennsylvania district must pay $260k in spying case // Our terrifyingly crowded solar system – How the asteroids are closing in
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google wi-spy lawsuits head to silicon valley court
from ars technica: Whether Google is liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open WiFi routers across the United States is to be aired out in a Silicon Valley federal court. Eight proposed class-actions from across the country that seek unspecified monetary damages from Google were consolidated this week and transferred to US District…
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no charges in pennsylvania school’s webcam spygate
related: young people will have to change their names to escape ‘cyber past’ warns google ceo from threat level: Federal authorities announced Tuesday they will not prosecute administrators connected to a webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district. Prosecutors and the FBI opened an inquiry following a February privacy lawsuit accusing Lower Merion…
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‘hate blogger’ hal turner burned by government he served
racist provocateur & radio host, hal turner, worked for fbi from kurt nimmo: On Friday [aug13], a jury found “National Security Intelligence” asset Hal Turner guilty of threatening to kill a judge. Prosecutors argued the former radio host threatened federal judges Richard Posner, William Bauer and Frank Easterbrook after they upheld a law banning handguns…
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apple manager arrested over $1 million in kickbacks
from computerworld: An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company’s contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks. Global supply manager Paul Shin Devine was charged with accepting $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories in a federal indictment and a civil suit,…