Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for terrorizing his neighbors for two years using a hijacked Wi-Fi- network. It all started in 2008 when Matt and Bethany Kostolnik filed police report against Ardolf. The couple had a 4-year-old boy who had wandered over to Ardolf’s property. Ardolf, a [...]

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Karma’s a bitch, that’s for sure. Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, a convicted sex offender, died while he was in the act of raping an elderly Texas woman. Gutierrez, 53, had ridden his bike 2 miles from his home to the home of his 77-year-old victim on June 2nd. He then snuck into the woman’s home and [...]

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The U.S. Postal Service has gone Scrooge this year by shutting down a program in North Pole, Alaska where volunteers responded to letters sent to Santa Claus. The program answered thousands upon thousands of letters every year. The program will go on elsewhere in the U.S., but privacy concerns have led to more restrictions, and [...]

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Apple has pulled the plug on another popular iPhone app.  Sex Offender, an app that helps you locate sexual predators in your area, has been removed from the App Store. The app has consistently been in the top 10 paid apps for several weeks, but now it’s gone. The creators of the app are reportedly [...]

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A 14-year-old female has been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography after posting nude pictures of herself on her MySpace profile. The New Jersey teenager posted around thirty “explicit nude” pictures of herself online, according to reports. Investigators say she said she had uploaded them for her boyfriend. As a result, she could [...]

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Image via CrunchBase Today, MySpace will deliver the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders who have been blocked from the popular social networking site over the past 24 months.  They are take this action in response to a subpoena from Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut’s Attorney General. Removing sex offenders off the site has been a major [...]

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