Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Computer experts have long warned about a catastrophic cyber-attack in the US, a sort of Web 3.0 version of 9/11 that would wreak enormous damage throughout the country. Like most Americans, I shrugged. With all of the enormous resources the country enjoys, those warnings seemed like the rantings of a digital Chicken Little. Oddly enough,…
Welcome to the age of hackable automobiles, when two security researchers can cause a 1.4 million product recall. On Friday, Chrysler announced that it’s issuing a formal recall for 1.4 million vehicles that may be affected by a hackable software vulnerability in Chrysler’s Uconnect dashboard computers. The vulnerability was first demonstrated to WIRED by security…
From Columbine to Charleston, here’s a look at some of the most notable U.S. mass shootings. (Alice Li/The Washington Post) The headlines all start to sound the same after awhile. Seven people shot inside Louisville nightclub. Four men shot in Suffolk early Sunday morning. Two dead, two hospitalized in Brice Street shooting. The shootings happen so often, the…
Photo Outside the Grand Theater in Lafayette, La., where a man fired on people at a screening of “Trainwreck.” The gunman was one of the dead. Credit Lee Celano/Reuters LAFAYETTE, La. — Three people were killed and seven were injured when a man opened fire in a movie theater here on Thursday night, officials said….
A gunman in Lafayette, Louisiana, who has been identified as a 58-year-old white man, killed three, including himself, and injured at least seven others during a shooting at a movie theater Thursday night. The shooter, whose name has not been disclosed, opened fire at a 7 p.m. screening of Trainwreck. Louisiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Brian…
Last summer, then-17-year-old New Yorker Winnifred Bonjean-Alpert was arrested and detained for 18 hours for telling her friends—other teens at a party— that they didn’t have to show police officers their IDs. Now, her mother, a civil rights attorney, is attempting to sue the city over the alleged police misconduct. Tabloid coverage of the story…
Nearly two weeks after Sandra Bland was arrested during a traffic stop and subsequently died while in police custody, another new development has been made public. In a recording obtained by an ABC affiliate and confirmed by a local judge, the 28-year-old Bland called a friend from prison hours after her first court appearance on…
Sandra Bland, the woman who was found dead earlier this month in a Texas jail, left a voicemail for her friend from jail, and now it’s been obtained by a number of media outlets. Bland was arrested after a police officer pulled her over for not signaling a lane change. Things escalated, the officer got…
Saturday evening, Troy and Kelli Goode of Memphis headed off to a Widespread Panic concert in nearby Southaven, Mississippi. What should have been a nice night off for two young parents ended with Troy, a 30-year-old chemical engineer, loving husband and devoted daddy of a 15-month-old, being hogtied by the Southaven police, and soon after dying…
CNN contributor and former NYPD detective Harry Houck argued on Tuesday that a Texas woman would not have died in police custody if she had not been “arrogant from the very beginning.” Disturbing dashcam video released on Tuesday shows a Texas trooper pulling Sandra Bland over for failure to signal, but the incident quickly escalates…