SHOCK: Jail cell was Web porn executive’s office

For more than 18 months, Francis A. Sharrak was able to manage his multimillion-dollar Internet porn and strip club business using just a laptop computer and a telephone.

And he was able to do it all from his secluded office space in downtown Detroit — a VIP cell at the Wayne County Jail.

Sharrak, 44, of Farmington Hills, was awaiting sentencing on federal tax evasion charges when he was locked up in [...]

Jobless mother-of-seven insists her family ‘deserve’ £1.25MILLION taxpayer-funded home they ‘trashed’

Manal Mahmoud moved into the Fulham address following a £76,000 refit
‘I deserve to live in a nice house and get benefits,’ she said.
Council says the family’s behaviour has been ‘appalling’ and it must improve

Claims doors are missing, wallpaper has been ripped off, driveway tiles have been smashed and furniture has been left strewn in the garden
Mrs Mahmoud insists she has ‘right to live in a nice house and claim benefits’

A [...]

Spread the wealth!!! Now you have to pay for someone else’ phone! New burden for the tax payer: You can now get a Free Cell Phone with 250min, Broadband Internet for $10 a month and a free laptop.

Going through a rough patch financially? As you cut your monthly bills to the bone, it may be tempting to decide to go without cellphone or Internet service.

But this can be one of the most risky places to cut if you are a student needing the expected tools of technology at your fingertips. It can also be a serious disadvantage if you are a job seeker. Immediate access to the [...]

Al Qaeda Designs Bombs to Hide in Cameras, Hard Drives, Pets

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , RHONDA SCHWARTZ, RICHARD ESPOSITO and MEGAN CHUCHMACH (@megcourtney)
May 9, 2012

 

At the age of only 30, the al Qaeda bombmaker behind the foiled plot on U.S-bound planes has emerged as the most feared face of terror for American authorities, a master technician with a fierce hatred for America and ingenious plans for hiding hard-to-detect bombs inside cameras, computers and even household pets.

Again and again, Ibrahim al-Asiri has created bombs that get past security [...]

Army Colonel arrested for ‘paying a hitman $150,000 to kill his ex-wife and threatening to blow up state captiol ‘

Lt. Col. Robert E. Underwood is in jail on three felony harassment charges
Girlfriend alerted police after she confronted him over naked pictures of his daughter that she found on his computer

Had served multiple deployments, did not have PTSD but was shot and left for dead by his mother who killed his siblings

An Army officer in Washington state threatened to blow up the state capitol, personally kill his girlfriend, and hired [...]

Hyperinflation Comes To Iran

Hyperinflation has struck again, this time at ground zero of the most sensitive geopolitical conflict in ages: Iran. EA WorldView reports:

An EA source reports that a relative in Tehran ordered a washing machine for 400,000 Toman (about $240) this week. When he went to the shop the next day, he was told that — amidst the currency crisis and rising import costs — the price was now 800,000 Toman (about $480). Another EA [...]

Alaska town tries to dig out from huge snow dump

From breitbart:

Acer on Sunday unveiled the world’s thinnest laptop computer as an array of “ultrabook” rivals prepared to debut this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The Taiwan-based computer titan will begin shipping Acer Aspire 5 models in the second quarter of this year, with prices to be disclosed in coming weeks.

“That S5 is quite significant,” analyst Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies said after the Acer press event.

“It looks like the thinnest [...]

TSA caves, will ditch ‘naked’ scanners

By Ashley Halsey III, Published: July 20

Those blurry but revealing airport body scanner images that caused a public uproar last year are being replaced by a gray, cookie-cutter image of the human form.

After six months of testing at three airports, including Reagan National, the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday that the new software would be installed on 241 units at 41 airports that use millimeter wave technology .

Software for [...]

Texas dumps its bill against pat-downs

In a three-year period, passengers at LAX filed 1,702 such claims. Also: Texas’ bill against pat-downs, small-business owners’ vacation plans, and JetBlue’s charity auction.

If you’ve had a laptop computer lost or damaged during security screening at Los Angeles International Airport, you are not alone.

Laptop computers are the item most often listed as lost or damaged in claim reports filed against the Transportation Security Administration at LAX, according to [...]

REPORT: Court Ruling Means Laptops and Other Electronics May Be Seized on Re-Entry to US

If you can’t let a day go by without accessing your personal data and files, you’d better think twice about crossing the border back into the U.S. with your computer.  That’s because digital devices such as a laptop computer can be seized at the border without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection.

That ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the [...]