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Exclusive: The Australian Raid On SuperDaE And How A Prank Over The Next Xbox Ended In Corporate Espionage
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Spider Blamed For Sydney House Explosion. Yes, Really.
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Global Operation Sees Infamous 'Microsoft' Scammers Finally Taken Down [Updated]
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Police Have Started Wardriving For Unsecured Networks In Queensland
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Aussie Cops Bust Hundreds Of Drivers In Mobile Phone Sting
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Do GPS Devices Distract And Cause Accidents?
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Ruslan Kogan Lost His Licence And Had His Car Impounded
Poor Ruslan Kogan. Like it wasn’t enough to postpone an overseas trip to fight a case against telco wholesaler ISPOne, now he’s had his car impounded and his licence revoked.
Apple Has A Huge Waiting List Of Cops Who Need iPhones Cracked
It’s no secret that the police aren’t very good at breaking into encrypted iPhones, but they’ve been asking Apple for help. A lot of help. According to reports by CNET the government asks for so much help that the “please decrypt this iPhone for me” waiting list is at least seven weeks long.
Undercover Cops Are Selling iPhones On The Street To Get People To Stop Buying Stolen iPhones
In San Francisco police are using a new tactic to disincentivise people from buying stolen iPhones: they’re trapping them in undercover stings. Wearing plain clothes, the officers are going around certain city areas and selling iPhones which they readily indicate are stolen. When someone tries to buy one, they make an arrest.
Monster Machines: Crooks Don’t Stand A Chance Against The SWAT Bot
With so much crazy going around these days, its a hairy time to be in law enforcement. But with this door-breaching, bullet-stopping, car-towing robo-tank in front of them, SWAT units will be unstoppable.
NYPD Plans Simulated Chemical Attack For New York Subways
A subway-borne chemical attack is one of those theoreticals that require the willful ignorance of regular passengers — for most of us, it’s just better not to think about it. Not so for the NYPD, which yesterday announced a plan to test how a chemical or radiological attack would spread through the city’s 320km of subway by pumping an invisible gas through the system this year.
Monster Machines: This Is The Camera That Found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Law enforcement didn’t pull any punches during its manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, going so far as to lock down an entire metropolis while they searched. Even when officers thought they had the second suspect cornered in Watertown boat, they confirmed their suspicions with a camera that can spot people from up to 10 miles away. Just to be sure.
Boston Police: Facial Recognition Didn’t Help Search For Bombers
While it’s undeniable that tech played a major part in helping hunt down the two Boston bombing suspects, it certainly wasn’t facial recognition that helped. Boston Police has admitted that its facial recognition system “did not identify” the suspects.
Police Attack Man For Recording Them With A Cameraphone
Cameras are the new weapons, or at least that’s what it seems like in the eyes of the police. Police officers from the San Diego Police Department pretty much attacked and arrested a man for recording them with his mobile phone camera.
US Police Hilariously Pose Online As Punk Rockers
A recent city noise control ordinance in Boston has cops cracking down on roving rock shows that don’t take place in formal venues. So they’re posing as punk rockers online to sniff out concert locations so they shut them down more easily. Only problem is their police work reads like an out of touch parent trying to talk to a teen about that new fangled rock and/or roll.
