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FBI’s Most Wanted Cybercriminal Protected Used Name of His Cat As Password
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A lot of questions have been raised about how the FBI managed to gain access to an encrypted computer by one of the FBI’s most wanted cybercriminals. Turns out, Jeremy Hammond, who was savvy enough to hack the website of think tank Statfor, used a very simple password: “Chewy 123.” “Chewy”…
Pimps Grow More Brazen, Luring Children into Prostitution in Groups, Public Events
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Pimps appear to be getting more brazen. KSAT ABC 12 reports that pimps are luring children and young adults into sex work by working in groups and public events. “They travel the same way that maybe a band would travel: from city to city. They identify a market which would be…
Opinion by The Atlantic: FBI Lies A lot – And It’s Often an Affront to Fourth Amendment & Consent
By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic The FBI lies a lot. Sometimes that’s fully justified. Brave agents risk their lives to infiltrate terrorist cells, organized crime, and child-pornography rings. Subterfuge is vital to these operations, and needn’t harm the country if done correctly. But there are certain kinds of lies and untruths that the FBI should…
Border Patrol Agent Arrested After Allegedly Beating Man with Helmet Over Cowboys Game
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent is in hot water after he was accused of beating another man in the parking lot of a bar with a motorcycle helmet because of an argument over a Dallas Cowboys game, Valley Central reports. Hector David Arredondo, 42, was arrested on an aggravated assault charge on…
Defendants in Dog Fighting Ring Get One of Nation’s Longest Sentences for Actions
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Defendants in one of the largest dog fighting busts in U.S. history received some of the stiffest prison sentences ever issued for a dog-fighting ring, the Washington Times reports. The Alabama dog fighting ring involved more than 350 dogs. “These dogs lived in deplorable conditions that constituted extraordinary cruelty,” said George…
Border Patrol Agents Smash Window of American Trucker, Pulls Him Out for Not Answering Questions
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An American trucker who refused to answer questions from the Border Patrol was yanked out of his truck by agents after they smashed his window as a camera rolled, the Houston Chronicle reports. The truck driver was arrested at a checkpoint near Falfurrias in Texas, about 60 miles north of the…
FBI Seeking Help Identifying Hundreds of Children Victimized in ‘Sextortion’ Case
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is looking for help identifying suspects in its largest “sextortion” case ever prosecuted. WJXX-TV reports that a Northeast Florida man was asking for sexually explicit photos and videos of girls as young as 13 years old. “He pretended to be a young boy the same age,” said McCarley. “He…
FBI Letter to MLK Reveals How Much J. Edgar Hoover Hated the Civil Rights Leader
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s well-known that notorious FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover loathed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. That has never been made clearer than in an uncensored letter from Hoover to King that was recently found among the former director’s archives, the New York Times wrote. In the letter, Hoover calls…