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Jussie Smollett has been arrested for filing a false police report, Chicago PD give news conference

sudshr47 February 21, 2019

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Jussie Smollett, the Empire actor who alleged he was the victim of a hate crime in January, turned himself into the police Thursday morning for filing a false police report.

Smollett allegedly orchestrated a false hate crime against himself using two individuals he paid $3,500 to attack him using racial, homophobic, and political language and symbols, Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a news briefing Thursday. 

According to the police, Smollett orchestrated the attack because he was dissatisfied with his salary.

JUST IN: Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson: Jussie Smollett “paid $3,500 to stage this attack…The stunt was orchestrated by Smollett because he was dissatisfied with his salary.” https://t.co/5AiMcfe6iH pic.twitter.com/0za7CEbVtv

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Citizen expands its crime-tracking alert app to Baltimore

sudshr47 February 15, 2019

Depending on who you ask, Citizen is either a useful urban safety tool or a menacing glimpse into a self-surveilled police state, but either way, the app is coming to Baltimore. Citizen, formerly known as Vigilante, is a crime tracking app that offers geo-targeted alerts that notify users of dangers lurking nearby, from carjackings to […]

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Best gifts for people obsessed with true crime

sudshr47 November 20, 2018

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Everyone knows someone who’s a little bit morbid, fascinated by the terrible, weird, and often unspeakable crimes human commit, and the injustices within the legal system itself.

They’re supremely into podcasts like My Favorite Murder, Serial, Dr. Death, Dirty John, and Criminal. They’ve binge-watched docuseries like Making a Murderer, The Jinx, Evil Genius — all of them. Every time you go on holiday, they find the most notorious, possibly haunted house in town, and insist on a visit (or at least a sneaky drive-by peek).

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Twitter suspends accounts linked to mail bomb suspect

sudshr47 October 26, 2018

At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen prominent Democrats were suspended on Friday afternoon. Facebook moved fairly quickly to suspend Sayoc’s account on the platform, though two Twitter accounts that appeared to belong to Sayoc remained online and accessible until around 2:30 p.m. […]

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Googly eye bandit is wanted in Georgia for defacing monument

sudshr47 October 13, 2018

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Googly eyes are hilarious. Put some googly eyes on literally anything and people are going to have a good time.

Unless it’s the city government of Savannah, Georgia we’re talking about. To them, googly eyes are no laughing matter — at least not googly eyes placed on a historic statue.

The City of Savannah Government Facebook page posted photos on Thursday of a monument of American Revolutionary War figure Nathanael Greene with googly eyes plastered to his face. Accompanying the hilarious photos was a message decrying the act of vandalism and informing the public that this is in fact a crime. Read more…

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Northwest fast food chain hack exposed customer credit cards

sudshr47 October 3, 2018

A beloved regional burger chain in the Pacific Northwest is the latest fast food company to suffer a major data breach. Burgerville, headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, disclosed today that any customers who used a credit or debit card from September 2017 to September 2018 at any of its locations may have had their card details […]

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Facing sexual assault charges, 3D-printed gun advocate Cody Wilson evades US authorities

sudshr47 September 19, 2018

The gun rights activist who waged a very public legal war over the right to freely distribute 3D-printed gun schematics over the internet is facing serious charges that have nothing to do with firearms. According to a law enforcement press conference today, Cody Wilson, 30, is believed to have traveled to Taipei after learning that […]

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Symantec offers free anti-spoofing services to US political campaigns and election groups

sudshr47 September 18, 2018

Symantec is the latest private security company to offer its expertise to vulnerable political targets on the house. Today the company announced that it would extend its “Project Dolphin” service (dolphins eat phish, get it) to political campaigns, candidates and election officials, all “prime target[s] for malicious actors seeking to influence the outcome of the […]

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‘Serial’ Season 3 is coming your way — and it’s taking on criminal justice

sudshr47 September 5, 2018

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Get ready for a podcast to completely take over your life – againSerial is back Sept. 20 for Season 3, with new episodes every Thursday.

According to a press release from the Serial team, Season 1 was downloaded over 16 million times. The phenomenal popularity of Serial‘s 2014 debut was a key factor in the resurgence and rise of podcast culture. It also led, remarkably, to the revisiting of Adnan Syed’s contentious murder conviction (though things are moving slow).

In Season 3, Serial goes right into the nitty-gritty and often uncomfortable flaws of the criminal justice system, specifically in Cleveland. From drug possession to full-on felony, each episode or batch of episodes will focus on a different crime and how it goes through the system. Read more…

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Russian hackers slipped up in attempt to hack senator

sudshr47 August 23, 2018

Hackers that targeted a Democratic senator up for reelection this year may have left behind clues in their attack that further suggest Russian involvement. The office of Claire McCaskill, a Missouri senator, was targeted in an apparent targeted phishing attack from a fake Microsoft domain that the software giant later seized pursuant to a court […]

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Russian hackers already targeted a Missouri senator up for reelection in 2018

sudshr47 July 27, 2018

A Democratic senator seeking reelection this fall appears to be the first identifiable target of Russian hacking in the 2018 midterm race. In a new story on the Daily Beast, Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen reported that Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill was targeted in a campaign-related phishing attack. That clears up one unspecified target […]

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