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Sloppiness, ego, and money eventually brought down the criminal mind that merged a high tech economy with low tech crime. The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked in $80 million in commissio
Not every tech company out there was willing to bend the rules to appease the US government back then. Today, many companies are unifying to fight the privacy issues, but even before it came to light that this type of action could be acceptable, a tech company tried to protect Edward Snowden. It was
While most eyes look at the Mossad as the likely entity behind Mojtaba Ahmadi’s assassination. Did Israel get one of their number one targets knocked off or are they the recipient of a pleasant surprise? We’ll probably never know. Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War
When making movies, actors often try to emulate their characters by living in their shoes. Robert De Niro actually worked as a New York City cabbie for a time to prepare for his role in Taxi Driver. When you’re going to be playing an astronaut in space, sometimes you have to take on 2nd-hand k
The game has already been a huge success before it even launched its online gameplay. Now that GTA Online is live, it appears to be impressing, glitches aside. Twelve years later, I’m a mute again. Rockstar has walked a long way down the story road since Grand Theft Auto 3, giving its protagonist ba
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re not an avid Internet Explorer user. If by some chance you are, here’s a quick warning about a potential attack on your system. An exploit for a vulnerability that affects all versions of Internet Explorer and has yet to be patched by Micro
As we learn more about the FBI bust of the deep net financial arm of parts of the underworld, Silk Road, a new fact was revealed. The owner tried to have people murdered. The federal government has indicted a San Francisco man, Ross William Ulbricht, alleging that he is Dread Pirate Roberts, founder
Every day, it seems like we find out something new about the NSA and their domestic spying practices. The latest revelation: they experimented with GPS location tracking on citizens’ cell phone. The National Security Agency in 2010 and 2011 conducted a secret pilot project to test the collecti
New social networks have been launching every other day for the last half decade. Everyone seems to play on variations of the same thing, but Smule has a different approach to socializing. In a move to unite fans of its popular mobile apps, the social music company Smule is launching a social networ
Interaction with each other and the current world around everyone is the difference between Spin and other chat services. Rather than talking heads, its default video chat setting points through the rear camera. “I personally don’t think [the future] is about big data, I think it’s about people uniq
The latest variation of Amazon’s tablet is built on Android OS, but the modifications and additions to the base software make it completely different from its traditional competitors. Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX tablet resembles Google’s Nexus 7 in many ways — from its light weigh
The Digg founder and former CEO didn’t need much time to break the $1 dollar mark for his AngelList investment potentials. One might believe that, based upon the numbers, that Digg had been a huge success for him. Next time Kevin Rose makes an angel investment, he has more than $1.1 million at
