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Nebraska Car Expert Busts Stereo Thief

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Being a thief isn’t the best career choice you can go with. Not only is it dangerous for the fact that you can and probably will get hurt when someone catches you trying to steal their stuff, but there’s always the risk of police catching you in the act. Even if you are a competent thief and manage to flee the scene after a successful steal, you still have to worry about being caught with the goods or selling them to someone who might be an undercover officer, or the original owner. [...]

Affluent N.Y. Town to Run a Background Check on Every Visitor

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Imagine getting lost on a road and pulling into a random town to ask for directions. But the moment you pull in you’re instantly pulled over by police officers for a crime you committed years ago, or just because someone with whom you had an altercation years ago lives there; either way, you didn’t do anything wrong. How can this be possible? [...]

PlayStation Breach Compromised Millions of Users’ Personal Information

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Sony’s PlayStation Network, which allows more than 75 million gamers worldwide to play interactively with one another, was breached last Wednesday, causing the network to crash completely. This Tuesday, it was revealed that personal information may have been compromised. Today, more information is surfacing to the vast scope and severity of what Sony is describing as a “network intrusion.” [...]

Your Unsecured Wi-Fi Network Might Get You Arrested

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It is always best policy to secure your wireless network, but whenever you scan for a Wi-Fi connection in a public place you usually find at least one open network. So why do people choose to leave their networks unsecured? Likely, they’re thinking that, “It won’t bother me if someone uses my connection,” or they’re just too lazy to set it up, seeing unsecured connections as harmless, or even benevolent to others. [...]

Should a Speeding Ticket Require Forfeiting Your Smartphone Data?

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Whatever ever happened to the good ol’ days where getting pulled over just meant you would get a speeding ticket, or if you’re lucky, just a warning? Well, if it’s up to the Michigan State Police, those days are not only long gone, but a speeding ticket is now reason enough to harvest all the information possible on you, including all of your e-mail, social networking, texting, personal photos, and virtually anything else you might have on your cell phone, or in many cases, your smartphone. [...]

Apple is Secretly Tracking Your Every Move

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Most smartphones, like the iPhone for example, use a built-in GPS antenna to offer you travel directions, make the localized search more accurate, and enable location-based apps like Foursquare to function. However, many people believe that when those location-enabled apps are disabled, or when the GPS function is turned off, that the phone is at rest, and is not recording their every move. [...]

Online Dating Sites About to Become Much Safer

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We all know that the Internet is populated with every walk of life: the types that you’d want to meet and possibly date, the type that you should avoid at all costs, and everything in between. But how can you tell the two apart, especially when you find them on online dating sites like Match.com, where everyone wants to portray a favorable image? [...]

Is Your Computer for Rent?

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In this capitalist society, almost anything and everything can be bought, or at the very least temporarily rented. Whether it be a home, car, or even a forehead, there is a price on almost everything. But unlike the few rent-able aforementioned objects, the topic of this story is renting something that the owner is unaware of—a personal computer for the purpose of committing cyber crime. [...]

RoboCop Glasses Soon to be a Reality

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If you thought technology couldn’t get any faster or smaller, think again. The latest supercomputer to hit the streets isn’t an iPad, tablet, or even a smart phone. Instead, it is built right into the glasses of police officers who will soon be scouting out large crowds, scanning for criminals without ever even having to go near them. What we’re talking about here are the (seriosuly named) “RoboCop” glasses, which are named after the 1987 action film. [...]

Czech Republic President Caught on Video Stealing Pen

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We all know people that borrow things and forget to return them; or at any rate, that’s what they say when you confront them about it. The latest person to be caught “forgetting,” is the Czech Republic’s President, Vaclav Klaus, who was using a ceremonial pen during a visit to Chile. To make matters even worse, Klaus was pulling off this heist in full view of the media during a ceremony to announce a trade agreement. [...]

GPS Jammers are Now More Dangerous than Ever

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GPS technology is increasingly becoming crucial to our everyday lives. No longer is this tracking technology only used for getting driving directions or tracking a specific package; instead it’s now used in everything from landing aircraft, guiding ships, synchronizing data on communication networks, and even helping keep power grids running. Combine this growing dependency on GPS technology with the fact that almost anyone can purchase a professional GPS jammer online, and you have the perfect ingredients for lots of chaos and damage. [...]

Zebras: Nature’s Barcodes

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GPS tracking has been used to chart animal migratory patterns and other behaviors for years. This method of tracking, and the even more invasive method of implanting RFID chips, however, could be a thing of the past with increased technological breakthroughs in cameras and digital algorithms. Learning an animal’s location could now be as simple as snapping a photograph. [...]

FBI Opens “Vault” to the Public

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It seems that the FBI has finally decided stop denying the public access to secrets it has discovered throughout its existence; or at the very least, secret documents on events which happened quite a while ago. What we’re talking about here is the FBI’s vault project, which is a searchable database the bureau launched containing documents on figures and events such as Al Capone, Notorious B.I.G., the 9/11 hijacking, and even the mythical Roswell events. [...]

Teenager Billed $2,000 for Bleeding on the Sidewalk

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Unlike many of our stories which fall into the category “criminal busts,” this post comes off more like “busted by bad luck.” It starts with a teenager cutting himself and dripping a few drops of blood onto the sidewalk and ends with a $2,000 fine. [...]