FBI Asks for Help Cracking Murder Victim’s Secret Code

In 1999, Ricky McCormick was found murdered in St. Louis, MO. In his pocket, investigators found hand-written notes in a secret code, which they’ve not been able to break–despite years of work by the FBI’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association. On Wednesday (March 29, 2011), the FBI released the text from […]

Spielberg’s New Alien Invasion Miniseries: Falling Skies [Video]

TNT has just released a new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming alien invasion miniseries, Falling Skies. Check it out: FALLING SKIES opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major […]

ISP throttles World of Warcraft “by mistake”

A Canadian internet provider appears to have caused World of Warcraft players to fall victim to its attempts to target peer-to-peer filesharing. Rogers Communications says the effect was unintentional and has offered a workaround. The case is a classic example of mixing up the medium and the message: while there’s little dispute that most p2p […]