Oct 06
Ross Ulbricht’s arrest last week
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Oct 04
Ross Ulbricht, the recently arrested mastermind behind Silk Road, appeared in court today where his lawyer begged for more time before the detention hearing. The judge said he didn’t "know what you’re going to accomplish in the next several days." Maybe move some of his massive stash of hidden Bitcoin?
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Oct 02
Just a few hours ago, it came to light that the feds had shut down Silk Road
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Oct 02
Once upon a time, you could sign on to Silk Road and buy everything from LSD to Moon Rock molly with Bitcoin. That time is now over because the FBI along with a few other federal agencies have seized the domain and shutdown the drug-dealing site. The only question is, what took them so long?
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Oct 01
Since the end of 2007, police in the UK have run a secret network of fully-furnished fake apartments and townhouses, solely for the purpose of capturing local burglary suspects. These are called "capture houses."
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Sep 30
If you’re planning on stealing anything from the London Borough of Brent, you might want to think twice—or at least hope you look good in green. The Brent Police Department has a crazy new secret weapon that covers crooks head to toe in a semipermanent emerald, ultraviolet glow. And they have no idea until it’s too late.
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Sep 21
NYPD has a message for you iPhone and iPad folks pic.twitter.com/cxzHLpgh60
— Jim Rosenberg (@jimrosenberg) September 21, 2013
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Sep 21
You’re down and out. You need to make some quick cash. You’re not opposed to criminal activity. What do you do? Cook meth? Nah, just sell some stolen graphing calculators out of state.
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Sep 12
For the first time in 12 years New Yorkers are electing a mayor who is not Michael Bloomberg, leading to all sorts of reminiscing about how he’s changed the city. These photos offer a twist: grisly historical crimes, juxtaposed against Bloomberg’s sanitized modern-day New York City.
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Sep 09
Many an armchair futurist seems absolutely convinced that Google Glass might soon render street crime obsolete. The thinking goes that when everyone is under the watchful eye of a web-connected faceputer, your common street hoodlum will no longer be able to rob with impunity. We’ve been down this road before.
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