Charlotte, NC: Police Release Videos of Keith Lamont Scott Killing Police Arrest Charlotte Man in Protester Justin Carr’s Death Protests Continue Across Charlotte for Sixth Straight Day Tulsa: Hundreds Pack Funeral of Terence Crutcher, Man Shot by Police National Museum… Read More ›
Archive for September 2016
Calling the SEC
Chris DiIorio suspected major broker-dealer Knight Capital of tanking penny stocks on purpose and racking up massive, unsustainable balance-sheet liabilities based on all the stocks it “sold” that it never really had. It had taken him five years to reach… Read More ›
Charlotte Police Video of Keith Scott’s Killing Released
Last Updated | 10:56 p.m. Bowing to demands for greater transparency into the circumstances surrounding a fatal shooting that sparked protests in Charlotte, North Carolina this week, the city’s police department on Saturday released video of the deadly encounter recorded… Read More ›
Naked Shorts Can’t Stay Naked Forever
A few years into his personal quest to understand how he had lost a million dollars on a penny stock, Chris DiIorio developed a sweeping hypothesis involving Knight Capital, the mammoth brokerage company that frequently traded in them. Knight earned $333… Read More ›
Messages of Anger and Hope from Charlotte as Protests Continue
Peaceful protests continued for a fourth night in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a video released by the family of Keith Scott revealed new details about the moments leading up to his death and raised a series of questions about police’s… Read More ›
A Walking Tour of New York’s Massive Surveillance Network
Earlier this month, on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the lower tip of Manhattan was thronged with soldiers in uniform, firefighters marching with photos of lost friends pinned to their backpacks, and tourists bumbling around the new mall… Read More ›
Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha is released, with important fixes
Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit… Read More ›
Tor 0.2.8.8 is released, with important fixes
Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users who select public relays as their bridges. You can download the source from the Tor website. Packages should… Read More ›
NSA’s Failure to Report Shadow Broker Vulnerabilities Underscores Need for Oversight
In August, an entity calling itself the “Shadow Brokers” took the security world by surprise by publishing what appears to be a portion of the NSA’s hacking toolset. Government investigators now believe that the Shadow Brokers stole the cache of… Read More ›
Searching for a Gun in Video Recorded by Keith Scott’s Wife
Last Updated | 5:34 p.m. Viewed through the eyes of those skeptical of the Charlotte police, video recorded by Keith Scott’s wife, Rakeyia, released to the media on Friday, seems to contradict the official claim that a gun was found… Read More ›