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Jul
31
Driver Runs Down Motorcyclist To Avoid Police Report
Filed Under crime, urban peril | Leave a Comment
A Bellwood, Illinois man intentionally ran over a motorcyclist after an accident to avoid a police report, reports the Chicago Tribune.
A Bellwood man deliberately ran over and killed a motorcyclist in an attempt to avoid filing a police accident report, authorities said Thursday.
Frederick Griffin, 29, rear-ended Frank MacNaught’s motorcycle in west suburban Addison on Sunday evening, said Assistant DuPage County State’s Atty. Brook Locke.
McNaught, 33, of Lombard, attempted to get Griffin to stop and wait for police so that a report could be filed. “Because he [Griffin] has a lengthy police record, he decided not to stop,” Locke said.
Police say Griffin backed over the motorcyclist after the victim followed him to a driveway in Addison.
It’s motorcycle season, so be careful out there.
And, always keep an out out for sociopaths on the road who have no concern for others’ lives or property.
Jul
30
7th Circuit Cites Wikipedia
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Prof. Eugene Volokh spots a 7th Circuit citation to Wikipedia — the online encyclopedia that anyone can change at any time — and writes that such usage is troubling because how can anyone know if any particular Wikipedia entry has an “indicia of likely expertise.”
H/T to the Indiana Law Blog.
Jul
30
Internet DNS Threatened?
Filed Under internet, life online | Leave a Comment
Is the way the internet translates friendly URLs — such as ChristopherHedges.com into IP addresses (this website’s IP address is 208.109.149.107, for example) — that send people to websites threatened by a flaw that the bad guys can exploit?
The New York Times reports that IT people and ISPs are rushing to fix their DNS servers before the information about the exact problem is released to the public.
The potential consequences of the flaw are significant. It could allow a criminal to redirect Web traffic secretly, so that a person typing a bank’s actual Web address would be sent to an impostor site set up to steal the user’s name and password. The user might have no clue about the misdirection, and unconfirmed reports in the Web community indicate that attempted attacks are already under way.
One easy solution computer users can do for themselves right now if their ISP hasn’t responded to the threat is to switch to Open DNS, reports the New York Times.
