Wired Opinion Just imagine if all the applications and services you saw or heard about at CES last week had to be designed to be “wiretap ready” before they could be offered on the market. Before regular people like you or me could use them. Yet that’s a real possibility. For the last few years,…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Did the FBI go over board a little in its recent 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report? Reporter Spencer Ackerman of WIRED seems to think so. Ackerman writes that the FBI considers the teen fans of the “shticky rap group Insane Clown Posse to represent a threat on par with the Crips,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service was paying big-time hacker Albert Gonzalez $75,000 a year as an informant before he was arrested in 2008 for operating a multi-million dollar credit and debit card hacking operation, the website WIRED reported. WIRED attributed the information to Gonzalez’s best friend and convicted accomplice Stephen Watt. Gonzalez is…
