Tag: CRIME

Get ready, because you may feel very uncomfortable in a few months when police officers are issued heavily-modified iPhones that are equipped with facial recognition, fingerprint scanners, and -- get this -- iris recognition. The phones, which should cost about US $3,000, would be used to allow for positive identification in the field, as opposed to hauling suspects all the way down to the ...

Wired's Threat Level reports that federal prosecutors seek a 25-year sentence for Albert Gonzalez, a hacker who is responsible for massive identity theft - over 130 million credit and debit card numbers. Gonzalez is behind identity theft at TJX, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Office Max, Hannaford Brothers, 7-Eleven, and Heartland Payment Systems, among others. As is quite usual in such cases, defense ...

Have you ever put much thought into Internet piracy? 'Ooh, cool, tons of free stuff!' -- no, I mean, really thought about it. digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/06/bulletproof-safe-havens-are-all-the-rage-for-internet-pirates/'; In almost every Western nation software and music piracy is theft. In the eyes of the law it's wrong. There's simply nothing more to it: it's ...