John D. Sutter reports: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn’t remove the FBI’s seal from its site. The seal is featured in an encyclopedia entry about the FBI. Wikipedia isn’t backing down, however. The online encyclopedia — which is run by a nonprofit group…
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Hack uses Google Street View data to stalk its victims
Dan Goodin reports: A security researcher has devised an attack suitable for stalking and similarly creepy endeavors that uses JavaScript and geo location data from Google to pinpoint a victim’s precise location. In a talk titled “How I Met Your Girlfriend,” at the Black Hat conference last week, hacker Samy Kamkar demoed the technique, which…
Lawyers Seek Order Forcing U.S. to Destroy NSA Wiretapping Data
Maria Dinzeo reports: The Center for Constitutional Rights has asked a federal judge to order the government to destroy or quarantine all surveillance records from the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program. “It requires little imagination to see the continued risk of harm posed by the profoundly intrusive surveillance the NSA carried out with abandon…
FBI releases 400-page Howard Zinn file
Justin Elliott reports: Surprising no one, the FBI announced today it had tracked the left-wing historian Howard Zinn for 25 years, despite having apparently no evidence that he ever committed a crime. The bureau released over 400 pages of its file on Zinn, covering 1949 to 1974 — when the bureau says its investigations ended —…