Earthquake in Japan – Alan Taylor – In Focus – The Atlantic.
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How one man tracked down Anonymous and paid a heavy price
Nate Anderson at arstechnica reports on Aaron Barr attempts to use his never-wronged gut feelings to link data found in social media as intelligence and research and a mean to make money.
How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price.
Aaron Barr’s work is being a troll. Nice.
The War on Cameras – Reason Magazine
The War on Cameras – Reason Magazine.
It has never been easier—or more dangerous—to record the police.
Be aware you can go to jail for recording(video and audio) and photographing public officials, especially the police.
“There’s this idea that just because charges are dropped, there’s no harm,” Miller says. “But that isn’t right. There’s definitely harm when someone is illegally arrested and has to spend a night or more in jail. Your life is disrupted. You now have legal bills to deal with. There’s also harm when a cop wrongly tells someone they can’t photograph or record. He’s intimidating them into giving up their rights.”
