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Playing Chicken for Real
Forget the cars, here’s a new way to “Play Chicken“.
Keith Richards – RIP Update (3)
Here’s your Keith Richards RIP Update for Mid-April 2016: He still lives.
These others, not so much.
Chiraq – Murdered the First Quarter
From the ChicagoTribune, “Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades“.
As the first quarter of 2016 nears an end, violence in Chicago has reached levels unseen in years, putting the city on course to top 500 homicides for only the second time since 2008.
As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.
Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at
least 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.
Worse yet, that jump follows two consecutive years in which shootings rose by double digits, the analysis found. Homicides also rose by about 12.5 percent last year over 2014.
Keith Richards – RIP Update (2)
Here’s your Keith Richards RIP Update for April 2016: He still lives.
These others, not so much.
The FBI Cracked the Code For Your iPhone
ABC News has reported, “How the FBI Cracked the iPhone Encryption and Averted a Legal Showdown With Apple“.
As the legal battle played out, the FBI appealed to cyber experts around the world for help.
“We’ve talked to anybody who will talk with us about it, and I welcome
additional suggestions,” Comey said during a House hearing four weeks ago.
In response, countless companies and hackers — including what one source familiar with matter called many “whackadoodles” — came forward claiming to have a way into Farook’s phone, sources said.
But nothing appeared viable. That is, until a company that the FBI has yet to identify came forward about two weeks ago. After initial contacts with the FBI, company officials flew to Washington to lay out their solution, sources told ABC News.
On Sunday, March 20, in a meeting at FBI headquarters, company officials demonstrated their technology on another iPhone. Convinced it would work, the FBI greenlighted applying it to Farook’s phone, sources said.
This past weekend — just days ago — the attempt was made, and “the FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on” the phone, according to the Justice Department.
