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By Jordan Valinsky 5/13 5:31pm

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The DOJ.

The DOJ Just Trolled the ACLU By Sending Them a Completely Blacked Reponse to Their FOIA Request

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which government department is the biggest troll of them all? It’s the Justice Department.

Business Insider reports that the ACLU received their FOIA request in regards to the FBI’s monitoring of emails, texts, and messages that were procured without a warrant. In reply, they received 15 pages that were completely blacked out, save for the DOJ’s letterhead and subject. Read More

By Jessica Roy 11/27/12 1:41pm

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Kim Jong Un Is the New Moot: 4Chan Wants to Make the North Korean Leader Time’s Person of the Year

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is having the best week ever. After being nominated by The Onion as 2012′s sexiest man alive–and having the announcement subsequently spread across papers in China as if The Onion is a legitimate news source–the meme-friendly leader now has 4chan gunning for him. Like it did for the site’s founder Moot back in 2009, The Daily Dot reports that 4chan’s /b/ board is assembling to affect the outcome of Time‘s Person of the Year award. Read More

By Steve Huff 10/24/12 10:48am

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Anonymous Group Posts Bomb Threat for Nov. 5, Pisses off Anonymous

A group claiming affiliation with Anonymous posted a bomb threat on its Twitter account Monday, saying it plans to detonate a bomb in a government building on November 5. The threat prompted disavowals from other Anon channels across the web.

The threat was linked from @FawkesSecurity, which posted the following message on several paste-up sites, as well as links to a seemingly typical Anonymous video with a masked and suited figure gesturing as a robotic voice said these words: Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 10/10/12 9:45am

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Basically. (Photo: MTV)

Triumphs in Trolling: Scammer Gets Punked by a Tech-Savvy Mark

In recent days the FTC has announced a crackdown on a particularly pernicious type of scheme: Scammers who call you up, out of the blue, purporting to be from “Windows Technical Support.” They tell you your computer is lousy with viruses, talk you into giving them remote access, then charge you hundreds of dollars to “fix” it.

If you’re computer savvy enough to be reading this blog, you’d probably see right through this nonsense, but you’re not the target audience for this scam–it’s your unsuspecting, eBay-loving Nana.

Every now and then, though, they call up someone who’s a little more cognizant of how security works.  Read More

By Jessica Roy 10/03/12 9:36am

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Tip o' the hat to ya, Reddit. (Photo: CMT)

Sorry, Trolls: Taylor Swift Declines to Perform at Horace Mann School for the Deaf

Shimmery fairydust composite Taylor Swift, who floats instead of walks and subsists entirely on a nutritional diet of rainbows, has decided not to let the trolls ruin a good contest.

Back in August, Reddit and 4chan galvanized for the all-important cause of gaming a VH1 competition that would send Ms. Swift to perform at a school that received the highest amount of votes. Soon, a hoard of trolls began liking Ms. Swift on Facebook and voting to send her to the Horace Mann School for the Deaf in Boston.

(Get it? Sending a musician to a school for kids who can’t hear music? “Lulz.”) Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 8/02/12 11:56am

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Seriously, do not fuck with startups.

Congress Considers Bill That Would Make Patent Trolls Pay, Literally

Seems like just about everyone’s had it up to here with patent trolls, up to and including certain members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ars Technica reports that Oregonian Democrat Peter DeFazio has introduced a bill torturously named ”Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes” Act, designed to put a stop to the most blatant instances.

You can call it the SHEILD Act. No, it does not come with either Samuel L. Jackson or an Agent Coulson. Sorry. Read More

By Jessica Roy 7/27/12 10:47am

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U mad? (Photo: Wikipedia)

Patent Troll vs. Foursquare: Checkin App Sued Over GPS Technology

Oh good, the patent trolls are at it again.

There’s something remarkably sinister about shell companies whose raison d’être is to mess with people actually working to innovate and build cool things. Silver State Intellectual Technologies, a shell company based in Las Vegas, is no exception. Now it’s taking its own brand of assholery to one of New York’s most adored startups: Foursquare.

GigaOm reports that Silver State claims to own the patent for GPS information technology, and is subsequently suing Foursquare for, like most modern internet companies, using GPS? Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 7/24/12 11:45am

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The Google Image results for "porn" are too vile, so here is a "lady flower." (Photo: flickr.com/danseprofane)

Accused of Illegally Downloading Porn, Man Demands Public Apology

Plenty of people have been sued for illegal downloading. But an increasing number of defendants are basically giving plaintiffs the finger, in the form of countersuits. Today TorrentFreak offers up yet another example, that of a put-upon Colorado man who’s filed a lengthy countersuit demanding millions in damages and also a public apology in a local newspaper.

Presumably he also faxed the company a handwritten note saying, “And that’s what’s up.” Read More