Category: Random

Don’t go googling how to break the law and have the browser remember YOU

Look, we don’t want to tell you how to commit crimes, but we do know that Googling how to commit said crime isn’t a smart starting point. It’s a lesson the Department of Justice wants you to learn, after arresting a person on suspicion of insider trading who looked up how to do so online.

The story begins with Fei Yan, a post-doctoral researcher at a “major university” in Cambridge, Mass., which we could guess at being MIT or Harvard. Yan’s spouse was a lawyer at a major law firm, who was working on a deal related to the purchase of Stillwater Mining Company.

via Insider trader caught because he googled how to commit fraud

Data exposed (again)

This seemingly endless stream of exposed customer/consumer details (read ~ personal data) doesn’t end until earth is over.

Will anyone be able to 100 % trust in anyone but themselves when telling their own data to others ?