Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal
Hackers break into databases, steal their content, hold it for ransom for 9 days, and then sell to the highest bidder if the DB owner doesn’t want to pay the ransom demand.
Criminal Justice
The Selective Prosecution of Julian Assange
As the extradition hearing for Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the prosecution of Assange fits into a pattern of governments selectively enforcing laws in order to punish those who provoke their ire.
Spanish Judge Seeks Sheldon Adelson Security Chief In Assange Spying Case
A Spanish judge’s request to probe a Las Vegas Sands staffer’s apparent role in a criminal spying operation against Julian Assange indicates the investigation is homing in on US intelligence. Tellingly, the Department of Justice is stonewalling the application.
Assange’s Extradition Trial: Court Hears About History Of Political Prosecutions Under Espionage Act
By Kevin Gosztola September 17, 2020 “There has never, in the century-long history of the Espionage Act, been an indictment of a U.S. publisher under the law for the publication Read More…
Ashton Kutcher’s NGO Supplies Police with ‘Free’ CIA-linked Surveillance Tool to ‘Protect Kids’
A suspect NGO claiming to combat child trafficking by providing surveillance tech to US police has allowed Amazon to continue supplying U.S. law enforcement with facial recognition software despite the tech giant’s moratorium on its sale to police.
California Bill Would Mandate ‘Crime Prediction’ Algorithms Instead of Cash Bail
The bill would require judges to use discriminatory “risk assessment” tools to predict future criminality, with no possibility for appeal.
Drug-Smuggling Cat Escapes High-Security Sri Lankan Prison
The cat was detained in the prison after two grams of heroin were found tied to its collar.
A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention.
A 15-year-old in Michigan was incarcerated during the coronavirus pandemic after a judge ruled that not completing her schoolwork violated her probation. “It just doesn’t make any sense,” said the girl’s mother.
Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data
The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”
How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.
St. Louis Mayor Doxes Constituents Who Called For Defunding the Police During Live Video Stream
In the now-deleted Facebook video, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson read the full names and street addresses of protesters who are calling on the city to defund the police department during a Facebook Live public briefing Friday afternoon,
In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People
While historical lynchings peaked more than a century ago, these racist acts can be linked to officer-involved shootings today.
US Government Expands Assange Indictment To Criminalize Assistance Provided To Edward Snowden
The US government expanded their indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to criminalize the assistance WikiLeaks provided to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to help him leave Hong Kong safely.
‘BlueLeaks’: Massive 269 Gigabyte Searchable Archive of Highly Sensitive Files From Over 200 Police Departments and Fusion Centers Leaked Online
On Juneteenth, transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published the “BlueLeaks” 269GB megatrove collection containing decades of highly sensitive police files, including internal memos, financial records, emails, audio, video, and intelligence documents from over 200 state, local, and federal agencies.
Exclusive Images From Inside British Court Expose Assange’s Undemocratic Treatment, Physical Deterioration
Photographs surreptitiously taken inside a British courtroom and provided to The Grayzone show to visibly disoriented Julian Assange, confined to a glass cage and unable to communicate with his lawyers.