It looks like yesterday’s FBI appeal to the public for help on finding the Boston Marathon bombers had worked. Enough so either they were tipped off last night, or the bombers figured the jig was up and had to make a move. Now one is dead, and another is still on the loose as a massive manhunt ensues this morning in Boston.
The Boston Globe was able to find images of the Boston Marathon bombers, and send them to the authorities. Now the FBI has released additional images of the suspected bombers to the public, so we can help find them and bring them to justice - so let’s make it happen!
Hey, your food recipe pins are nice and all, but you know what is better? Police mugshots, right on Pinterest. Give it up to The Mercury Police Department in Pottstown to go balls out and use social media to their full advantage, posting police mugshots on the hottest image sharing network around.
For 18 years the FBI has been wiretapping phone lines as a means for surveillance on persons of interest in their ongoing investigations. In 1994, the U.S. wiretapping law was passed, several years prior to the World Wide Web. This law gives the FBI full access to your private conversations on any phone lines. Now, the FBI wants to change the law so that they can tap into your Internet conversations as well.
Social Networking is hot stuff these days, so you know, and the FBI finally felt after several years to publish their own social networking brochure which gives you tips and advice on how to stay a step ahead of nefarious individuals trying to p4wn you on the Interwebs. But in all seriousness, it does have some good info if you aren’t hip to some common web terms such as ‘click-jacking’, ‘doxing’ or ‘pharming’.
The story of the unraveling of LulzSec is fascinating. News broke this morning that the leader of LulzSec has been a secret informant for the FBI since last year.
Believe it or not, the FBI had a full 191 page file on Steve Jobs. It isn’t what you’re thinking though. According to VentureBeat, Jobs applied for an official government position as part of George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1991.
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