Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 4, 2012 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Anonymous Eavesdrops on FBI Anti-Anonymous Strategy Meeting
As FBI and Scotland Yard investigators recently plotted out a strategy for tracking suspects linked to Anonymous, little did they know that members of the group were eavesdropping on their conference call and recording their plans.
The online vigilante group has released a 17-minute clip of a Jan. 17 conference call between investigators discussing evidence gathered against members of the group as well as upcoming plans for arrests. The group also released an e-mail sent out by an FBI agent to law enforcement agents around the world with a phone number and password for accessing the conference call.
wired.com slashdot.orgtheinquirer.net F.B.I. Admits Hacker Group’s Eavesdropping
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 3, 2012 at 1:25:00 PM CET
Polizei scheitert bei Durchsuchung an Imac.
Im Durchsuchungsbericht heißt es, auf dem Schreibtisch hätten sich ein Monitor und eine Tastatur befunden. Der “dazugehörige PC” sei jedoch nicht auffindbar gewesen. Auf die Mitnahme des Monitors und der Tastatur habe man verzichtet.
Der iMac hat also durchaus Vorzüge.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 27, 2012 at 5:11:00 PM CET
Facebook: 18-Jähriger kündigt Revolution an - Der Schüler wurde von der Polizei festgenommen
Es war kurz vor 13 Uhr gestern, als die Beamten einen Schüler der Albrecht-Dürer-Schule festnahmen. Der 18-Jährige hatte, so die Polizei, über das soziale Netzwerk Facebook angekündigt, eine Revolution machen zu wollen. Ein Schüler bekam dies mit und wandte sich an seinen Klassenlehrer.
Die Schulleitung informierte daraufhin die Polizei, die mit mehreren Dutzend Einsatzkräften schließlich nach dem Schüler fahndeten. In der Nähe des Schulgeländes in der Lahnstraße griffen die Beamten den Jungen schließlich auf. Er wurde in Gewahrsam genommen und verhört.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 27, 2012 at 12:42:00 PM CET
NYPD Experimenting With Terminator Drones To Monitor NYC
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 23, 2012 at 4:51:00 PM CET
Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring, Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday the authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move.
The decision in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the Obama administration’s position that American’s had no privacy in their public movements. The government had told the high court that it could affix GPS devices on the vehicles of all members of the Supreme Court, without a warrant.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 23, 2012 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Man faces five years for ‘God does not exist’ Facebook post
31-year-old Alexander Aan faces a maximum prison sentence of five years for posting “God does not exist” on Facebook. The civil servant was attacked and beaten by an angry mob of dozens who entered his government office at the Dharmasraya Development Planning Board on Wednesday. The Indonesian man was taken into protective police custody Friday since he was afraid of further physical assault.
The posting was made on a Facebook Page titled Ateis Minang (Minang Atheist), which Aan created. At the time of writing, it had over 1,700 Likes. Aan’s posting has been removed, but supporters on the Page are urging police to release him.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 17, 2012 at 5:45:00 PM CET
“Automatische Kennzeichenfahndung”: Vorratsdatenspeicherung jetzt auch von Autos
“Wir wissen wo dein Auto steht” gilt jetzt nicht mehr nur für den Schiri, sondern potentiell die gesamte Bevölkerung. Das nennt sich “Kennzeichenfahndung” und ist anscheinend gängige Praxis bei deutschen Polizeibehörden.
Am Freitag hat Fefe darauf hingewiesen, dass eine private Firma in Kalifornien durch die Gegend fährt und Kfz-Kennzeichen inklusive Standort des Autos speichert und schon 550 Millionen Datensätze hat:
Police around the country have been affixing high-tech scanners to the exterior of their patrol cars, snapping a picture of every passing license plate and automatically comparing them to databases of outstanding warrants, stolen cars and wanted bank robbers. […]
When a license plate is scanned, the driver’s geographic location is also recorded and saved, along with the date and time, each of which amounts to a record or data point. Such data collection occurs regardless of whether the driver is a wanted criminal, and the vast majority are not.
Doch wie so oft lohnt auch der Blick vor die eigene Haustür und siehe da: das gibt es auch hier. Das “Forschungsprojekt” Public Intelligence hat einen 184-Seiten starken Bericht und eine Präsentation (beide PDF) veröffentlicht, welche die polizeilichen Maßnahmen “Verkehrsdatenabfrage, Mobilfunkortung, Kennzeichenfahndung” im Auftrag des Landtag Brandenburg untersuchen.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 14, 2012 at 12:58:00 PM CET
Handcuffed man steals police car
Blankenship was pulled over for speeding on Tuesday, handcuffed with his hands behind his back and put in the back seat of a police car after an officer reported seeing drug paraphernalia in his car, authorities said.
As the officer checked the suspect’s car, Blankenship drove off with the police car, which was found on Wednesday in a pond.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 10, 2012 at 9:19:00 AM CET
Bundespolizei-Beamter überwacht Tochter: Was kann da schiefgehen?
Ein spektakulärer Hackerangriff auf die Bundespolizei geht nach SPIEGEL-Informationen offenbar auf ein kompliziertes Vater-Tochter-Verhältnis zurück. Kölner Fahnder ermitteln gegen einen hohen Beamten der Bundespolizei aus Frankfurt am Main.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 10, 2012 at 9:01:00 AM CET
Paybacks are hell: Parental spying prompts infiltration of German police system
Der Spiegel published a story in yesterday's edition of their magazine that the hack on the German police surveillance system "Patras" was prompted by a senior officer spying on his daughter's internet activities.
The Patras system is used by the police to track suspects using so-called "silent" SMSs and GPS tracking devices planted on automobiles.
It appears that a senior policeman from Frankfurt am Main installed spyware onto his daughter's computer to keep an eye on her online activities.
nakedsecurity.sophos.com German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 8, 2012 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Interpol Secretary General Wants Global Cyber Fusion Center
Meeting The Independent before visiting Scotland Yard to discuss arrangements for the Games, Mr Noble said he recognised that some people are scared the event could bring an increased threat of violence to the UK.
"One of the things I want to do... is to create a cyber-fusion centre, where police around the world can go to one place quickly and find out the source of any kind of message or communication that's come across the internet."
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 25, 2011 at 5:04:00 PM CET
ID errors put hundreds in L.A. County jails
Wrongful incarcerations totaled 1,480 in the last five years, a Times inquiry finds.
Hundreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department jails in recent years, with some spending weeks behind bars before authorities realized those arrested were mistaken for wanted criminals, a Times investigation has found.
The wrongful incarcerations occurred more than 1,480 times in the last five years. They were the result of a variety of factors, including officials' overlooking fingerprint evidence and working off incomplete records.
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