Some weeks back, I posted on a Disney ride that offers riders the opportunity to be “verbally accosted by a security droid.” Now, kids can play at being a TSA-worker themselves with a security wand: There’s nothing cooler than being a TSA agent for Homeland Security and now the Spy Gear Security Scanner lets kids [...]

Over the weekend, I expressed some curiosity over who hacked the IMF. They at least say it was a state actor. Security experts said the source seemed to be a “nation state” aiming to gain a “digital insider presence” on the network of the IMF, the inter-governmental group that oversees the global financial system and [...]

When I posted on the new guidelines the government has given Gitmo lawyers on how they can use the Gitmo Detainee Assessment Briefs released by WikiLeaks, I had not yet seen the guidelines. Here they are. What’s most interesting to me about the guidelines is the way the government appears to be trying to undercut [...]

Time reports that John Durham has sent out recent subpoenas for grand jury testimony pertaining to torture and war crimes, specifically as it relates to Manadel al-Jamadi, the dead Iraqi depicted in one of the most graphic Abu Ghraib photo. It has been nearly a decade since an Iraqi prisoner known as “the Iceman” — [...]

Charlie Savage describes changes the FBI is making to its Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. On its face, the changes he describes are downright bad. The changes allow FBI agents to: Make a database “assessment” search of a group or person “proactively” without making a record of that search Tail people during a “proactive” assessment [...]

Bernie yanks the Bahraini GP and Vettel looks on track for another win in Montreal.

When our children askin the future how the Great Writ of Habeas Corpus, the foundation of law, died, this is the time and this is the answer.

Usually, the apparent purpose of hacks is fairly banal. To steal defense secrets. To profit organized crime. To embarrass a political opponent. But a reported sophisticated hack on the IMF is far more intriguing. Because the fund has been at the center of economic bailout programs for Portugal, Greece and Ireland — and possesses sensitive [...]

I’ve been meaning to return to this Ellen Nakashima story on our cyberwar efforts. As you recall, it lays out the turf war between the CIA and DOD over clandestine cyberops, partly by telling the story a fight over whether or not to disrupt the jihadist online magazine “Inspire.” Last year, for instance, U.S. intelligence [...]

Charlie Savage reports on the new “relaxed” standards that will allow Gitmo defense lawyers to glance at the Gitmo Detainee Assessment Briefs released by WikiLeaks. (h/t fatster) In guidance to the lawyers — who have security clearances, and so are required to follow government rules for the handling of classified information — the department’s court [...]