Tag: FBI

That's right, the FBI has sent a letter to Wikipedia's San Francisco office demanding that they remove the Bureau's official seal from the site. Their reasoning? They say that it's because "unauthorized reproduction of the FBI Seal is prohibited by US law." The letter also went on to say that anyone caught in violation of this law is subject to fines and/or imprisonment. So, apparently all of the ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger -- who left the company back in 2002 -- says he has reported Wikipedia's parent organization to the FBI for hosting alleged child pornography. He's made the letter open and posted it to Wikipedia, where users (including Wikimedia's lead attorney) have subjected it to some harsh criticism, both legal and personal. Wikimedia defenders claim Sanger is just bitter ...

Talk about your Photoshop disasters! Gaspar Llamazares, a member of Spanish parliament, discovered that his hair and some his facial features had been used by the FBI in a new Most Wanted poster of the world's most notorious terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The FBI claims to have used "cutting-edge" technology to create the image, depicting what Bin Laden probably looks like today. In that case, Adobe ...

We don't like to make political statements too often here at DLS. It just seems a lot less complicated to fight over software, or whether or not something is Web 2.0, or pirates and ninjas. Every once in a while, though, something comes up that's just a little too out of line not to mention. Wired reports that back in November, the FBI paid a visit to The Internet Archive and served founder ...

The FBI and Chinese officials have seized more than 290,000 CDs with pirated software in a crackdown on groups in China and the US who were making and distributing the discs around the world. 25 people were arrested in the sting. The CDs have an estimated value of $500 million, with software titles from companies including Microsoft and Symantec. Of course, if you do the math, officials are ...

The FBI is announcing a crackdown on "botherders," or the unscrupulous folks who send out viruses and trojans to hijack your computer and use it for their own nefarious purposes. Sorry, had to make it sound like something out of an old Western there to fit wit the term "botherder." Anyway, the FBI says it's identified over a million potentially infected IP addresses as part of an ongoing ...

The FBI's Robert Mueller issued a statement saying that the FBI now wants ISPs to keep records longer or keep records period on their users who access the Internet, because terrorists use the net to perform key functions of their evil plots. While this is not unexpected for Internet users, we don't want our privacy stripped either, because of a terrorist using the Internet. This is the same old ...

So, you've heard about the FBI's $170 million snafu? Now, the FBI has contracted with Lockheed Martin, who will reveal their $400 million plans in October, 2006 to integrate the FBI's data systems in a project called Sentinel. If you think about the difference between the FBI's information systems, and the ideology behind a tiny little site called MySpace, you'll see the problem. I know, weird ...

The Washington Post reports that the FBI's new software system had to be scrapped since it doesn't work. The $170 million project turned out to be nothing but 730, 000 lines of unusable code. It is tragic really. The software problem reports (SPR's) with the system numbered in the hundreds, just as Zalmai Azmi (FBI technology chief) thought the project was mere weeks from completion. Many critics ...

The FBI has requested - and obtained - records from Google pertaining to a Gmail account that was used to send threatening email to the NAACP. Information was requested of Google on June 22nd, 2006, after the email was sent to the NAACP one month earlier, on May 22nd. Through some digital sleuthing, the feds tracked the email to one Randall C. Ashby II of New York state. Some reports on this ...