Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The Democratic debate Saturday night featured familiar themes: Bernie Sanders hit Hillary Clinton as beholden to Wall Street, Clinton hit Sanders as soft on gun control, Martin O’Malley had a tough time getting a word in edgewise — as this sad exchange with moderator Martha Raddatz demonstrates: O’MALLEY: Martha, may I — Martha, may I… RADDATZ: No,…
Iranian hackers infiltrated the control system of a small dam less than 20 miles from New York City two years ago, sparking concerns that reached to the White House, according to former and current U.S. officials and experts familiar with the previously undisclosed incident. The breach came amid attacks by hackers linked to Iran’s government…
THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States. The catalogue includes details on the Stingray, a…
Michael Ip/for New York Daily News An off-duty cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. An NYPD cop has been arrested in Brooklyn on child molestation charges. Jacob Sabbagh, 33, was busted in the 72nd Precinct in Sunset Park on Wednesday and charged with “course of sexual conduct against a…
Office of Mitch MorrisseyLast August, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey charged two local activists, Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt, with seven felonies each for passing out jury nullification pamphlets at the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse. Morrissey continued to pursue those charges even after conceding that such activity is protected by the First Amendment. When I asked Lynn Kimbrough, Morrissey’s public information…
start .content introduction March 12, 2009 Lynnwood, Washington No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender. She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail. Rarely do misdemeanors draw notice. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008 in…
Ally Burguieres, an artist from New Orleans, is accusing Taylor Swift of using one of her designs to promote Swift’s album 1989. The design Burguieres is referring to is a picture of a cute little fox. Last year, while Swift was promoting the release of her new album, the singer would post images to her various social accounts along…
The issue that the most Americans regard as the most important one facing our country right now is terrorism. Fear is more powerful than reason. Not that there has ever been a reason to doubt that. The American public’s priorities are a bizarro version of Short Attention Span Theater, with issues constantly flickering in and…
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails…
An article published by The Guardian in 2011 on the topic Cybercrime: is it out of control? received a nasty response from a hacker who inserted a malicious URL inside one of the syndicated link embedments in the article. The article published by the website was headlined “Cybercrime: Is it out of Control?” and the hacker…