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Submission + - Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Sanders Facebook Groups on the eve of elections (usuncut.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Some of the biggest pro-Bernie Sanders groups on Facebook were briefly taken down Monday evening in a targeted attack by Hillary Clinton supporters.

The groups Bernie Sanders Activists, Bernie Believers, BERNIE OR BUST, Bernie Sanders Revolutionaries, Bay Area for Bernie, Bernie Sanders 2016 — Ideas Welcome, Bernie Sanders is my HERO, and Bernie Sanders for President 2016 were all taken down in the attack. The pages in question were reported to be down for about three hours, from 9 p.m. to midnight Monday night.

Collectively, these groups are home to more than a quarter million Bernie Sanders supporters, and some have been in existence for nearly a year, having been launched shortly after the Vermont senator declared his intent to run for president in 2015.

The groups were targeted by online trolls, who posted pornographic images and reported the groups to Facebook admins.

Submission + - Website Offers Doxing-as-a-Service and Customized Extortion (csoonline.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: A website on the Dark Web is making Doxing, the collection and publication of sensitive personal information, into a business. The Ran$umBin website works like this, writes CSO's Steve Ragan, "Someone uploads Dox, the information is verified, and if it's proven to be credible (at the administrator's discretion) – it will be posted to the public. The victim can then pay a ransom to have their information removed, but the cost depends on the category assigned to the Dox by the person who uploaded it.' The site also offers Doxing-as-a-Service and will collect a complete profile on a person for $150. 'So far, there are only a handful of records posted to the website, but that's still far too many,' writes Ragan. 'There are five people alleged to be pedophiles; four people listed under revenge (including two high school students); ten people under miscellaneous (including the CEO of Securi.net); two law enforcement officials; and two people under the famous category – Donald Trump and President Obama.'

Submission + - Zero Zero's Camera Drone Could Be a Robot Command Center in the Future (ieee.org)

Submitted by Tekla Perry
Tekla Perry writes: Zero Zero Robotics comes out of stealth today with the Hover Camera drone that uses face and body recognition to follow and photograph selected subjects. Company cofounder Meng Qiu Wang explains why he did the engineering in China (he built a team of 80 that worked two years on the project), and how this flying camera will evolve to be a navigation and control system for future home robots

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