crime Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow
crime US Conference of Mayors adopts a resolution to never pay off ransomware attackers Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Cooperative porno copyright troll gets 5 years in prison, while his co-conspirator got 14 years Cory Doctorow
security A prolific credit-card theft ring is scanning for unsecured "buckets" in Amazon's cloud and has compromised 17,000 domains (so far) Cory Doctorow
law After poacher crackdown, Tanzanian endangered rhino and elephant populations are staging inspiring recoveries Cory Doctorow
Weird Two people arrested in stolen car containing rattlesnake, gun, booze, and uranium David Pescovitz
security Learning from Baltimore's disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack Cory Doctorow
crime Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google's profiting from them Cory Doctorow
law Porno copyright troll sentenced to 14 years: "a wrecking ball to trust in the administration of justice" Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's facial recognition fear crusade ramps up: now they're paying Facebook to show you pictures of suspected criminals to scare you into getting a surveillance doorbell Cory Doctorow
crime That woman who got fired for comparing Michelle Obama to an ape is now going to jail for defrauding FEMA Cory Doctorow
crime YouTube jackass sentenced to prison for giving homeless man an Oreo filled with toothpaste Mark Frauenfelder
