We’ve all seen videos where security personnel use an inappropriate tool to stop a perpetrator, and often it’s simply because they don’t have something more suitable with them. This arm-worn weapon is designed to avoid that, by giving them a choice between four different non-lethal weapons.
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Four-in-one non-lethal weapon offers lots of stopping options
Want to know what a desperate last-ditch effort from a movie studio to hang on to an outdated business model looks like? Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group is about to try to convince you that instead of ripping or pirating your DVDs, you should go to a store and pay them to make you a DRM-encumbered copy that lives in Warner’s cloud.
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Warner Entertainment’s ridiculous new plan for legal DVD rips
After getting arrested by the FBI last June, Hector Xavier Monsegur aka “Sabu” — leader of the Louise Boat hacker group LulzSec that rained terror on the CIA , Fox and Sony has apparently been forced into helping the agency catch his ex-fellow hackers and Anonymous members.
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LulzSec leader gets last ‘lulz,’ helps FBI catch fellow hackers
Not only was stealing a laptop not a crime in this story, students successfully lifting the laptops from University of Twente in the Netherlands could count as university credit. Who says crime doesn’t pay?
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University students told to steal 30 teacher laptops ‘for science’
Since last week, Apple’s been under fire over iPhone apps that secretly upload the contents of a user’s contact list without notifying them first. What started out as a hackathon brainstorm on how to port a Path app to OS X turned into a full-on PR disaster, not just for app creators, but Apple, too. So what the hell is going on?
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Path’s privacy breach exposes Apple’s flawed app approval process
Julian Oliver’s “Transparency Grenade” is a surveillance device shaped like a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, stuffed with network sniffers and other technology. It is intended to be hidden in smoke-filled rooms where secretive and corrupt meetings are taking place, so that all the material therein can be widely viewed. Most importantly however it is the hyperbole and fear around containing these volatile records, of the cyber burglary, that increasingly yields assumptive logics that ultimately shape how we use networks and think about the right to information. Just as record companies claim billions in losses due to file sharing, the fear of the leak is being actively exploited by law makers to afford organisations greater opacity and thus control. This anxiety, this ‘network insecurity’, impacts not just upon the freedom of speech but the felt instinct to speak at all. All of a sudden letting public know what’s going on inside a publicly funded organisation is somehow ‘wrong’ -Bradley Manning a sacrificial lamb to that effect. Meanwhile civil servants and publicly-owned companies continue to make decisions behind guarded doors that impact the lives of many, whether human or other animal. The Transparency Grenade (We Make Money Not Art) Transparency Grenade (project page)
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Transparency Grenade: a grenade-shaped surveillance device for smoke-filled rooms
McDonald’s restaurants (if you can even call them that) in Australia, having suffered from a recent spat of robberies (who the f*** robs a McDonald’s ? Taco Bell or GTFO), have teamed up with security firm SelectaDNA to install sprayers above its doors that will douse robbers with an invisible mist of DNA . Why? To make them glow under blacklight for police identification. Wait, WHAT? The newly introduced DNA will then seep harmlessly into his or her skin for two weeks (and clothes for six months) allowing the police to reveal the culprit using UV light. The spray is both invisible and odorless, but even if the hapless highwayman notices the deoxyribonucleic acid rain cloud, SelectaDNA assures that its chemical concoction is “virtually impossible to remove.” Making matters worse for the offender is that each DNA sequence is unique to the location to which it was installed, meaning a successful forensic identification is 100% admissible in court. Basically, if you get caught in this stuff, you’re screwed. No word if the DNA will cause you to mutate into a supervillain, but brobro in the picture there does look kinda like a Star Wars character, so that’s something. Not something I’d be willing to rob a McDonald’s to achieve, but I’m also smart enough to only rob Burger Kings. *putting on cardboard crown* NOW LEAD ME TO THE ROYAL TREASURE ROOM. Australian McDonald’s Now Spraying Thieves With DNA [escapistmagazine] Thanks to Sore_Dong, who may or may yes have permanently injured his unit. Smooth move buddy — your DNA spraying days are OVER.
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Rob An Australian McDonald’s, Get Hosed With DNA
The TSA caused an uproar recently when it confiscated what is known as a “cupcake in a jar.” Stick with me now as this is where the story gets funky — according to the TSA it has nothing against cupcakes in general, just this special cupcake stuffed into a jar. In this format it violated to three-ounce limit for carry on liquids or gels.
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Is your cupcake TSA compliant? We’re not kidding
What do you do if you manage to hack Grammy award-winning and controversial dresser Lady Gaga ’s Twitter and Facebook accounts? Go phishing and pretend you’re giving away iPads to her millions of “little monsters.” That’s what hackers tried to do yesterday, before the the hacking ended.
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Lady Gaga’s Twitter and Facebook hacked for iPad giveaways
You know what anti-piracy groups are supposed to be all about? That’s right, pirating stuff. Oh, oops, I mean not pirating stuff. Yeah, sorry about that, but it’s an easy mistake to make, seeing as these guys keep doing the exact opposite of anti-piracy.
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