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[Link] Wu-Tang Clan Producer Suing NYPD After Wrongfully Spending 4 Years in Rikers
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
Former Wu-Tang Clan producer “True Master” spent four years at Rikers Island after being falsely accused of a rape that DNA evidence proved he didn’t commit. Now, he wants justice—with the help of star civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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[Link] Man wrongly identified as Cleo Smith accused reaches settlement with Seven Network
Read: 16/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
The man wrongly identified as Cleo Smith’s alleged kidnapper by the Seven Network has had a victory in the Western Australia supreme court, after suing the network for defamation.
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[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.
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[Link] We Spoke to the Unlucky Company With the Same Name as the Investor of Taliban’s Marijuana Center
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday night, the Twitter account for Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOI) announced that a foreign company was investing $450 million into setting up a hashish processing factory within the country.
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[Link] Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Security researchers have checked the web's public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] 7 News apologises for wrongly identifying Aboriginal man as suspect in Cleo Smith case
Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au
Seven News has apologised for identifying an Aboriginal man as the 36-year-old suspect that was arrested by WA police over the Cleo Smith abduction. The network published a number of photographs of the man on Wednesday along with his name.
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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.
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[Link] Police Thought They Saw Brian Laundrie Coming Home. It Was His Mom.
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Petito was reported missing, North Port Police set up cameras outside Laundrie’s residence. Laundrie had returned home alone Sept.
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[Link] Motorist fined after CCTV confuses his number plate with woman’s T-shirt
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
David Knight was baffled when he received a fine for driving in a bus lane in Bath – about 120 miles away from his home.
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[Link] Netflix edits Squid Game phone number after woman deluged with calls
Read: 9/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Netflix has edited out a phone number that appears in its hit series Squid Game after a South Korean woman and others who use similar combinations were deluged with calls – with some callers even asking to join the show’s life-or-death games.
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