By Cindy Cohn Gizmodo FBI Director James Comey gave a speech reiterating the FBI’s nearly twenty-year-old talking points about why it wants to reduce the security in your devices, rather than help you increase it. Here’s the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s response. The FBI should not be in the business of trying to convince companies…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Perpetrators wearing “FBI” vests and badges around their neck tried to kidnap women in two separate incidents in Buffalo, the Buffalo News reports. The fake agents handcuffed the victims. Police stopped an SUV in which the perpetrators and a victim were riding. The Buffalo News wrote that the victim believed she…
Michael D. Langan Special to the Buffalo News It is time for Treasury defenders in Congress to return the Secret Service to Treasury’s oversight. When I served as senior adviser to the under secretary for enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 1988 to 1998, the Secret Service was one of the proud…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA’s decision to set up a fake account on Facebook by stealing a woman’s identity was a “knowing and serious breach” of the social networks’ terms and policies, the company wrote in a letter to the DEA. Gizmodo reports that Facebook will enforce its policy of users creating accounts under…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least 38 suspected Nazi war criminals removed from the U.S. continued receiving their Social Security benefits as part of a strange deal struck with the Justice Department, the Seattle Times reports. One of them is former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger, who fled to Germany and still collects about $1,500 a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A TSA agent who patted down an Ebola patient at a Cleveland airport is on paid leave as a precaution, 19 Action News reports. The agency said the agent performed a routine-pat-down of Amber Vinson at Hopkins Airport. Vinson is the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. “Out of…
