Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case (networkworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 9, 2015 @03:09PM from the throw-away-the-key dept.

coondoggie writes: The former U.S. Department of State man accused of hacking into hundreds of victims' e-mail and social media accounts, stealing thousands of sexually explicit photographs, and threatening at least 75 victims that he would post those photos and other personal information unless they agreed to his demands has entered a guilty plea to the nefarious attacks. Michael C. Ford, 36, of Atlanta, was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Aug. 18, 2015, with nine counts of cyberstalking, seven counts of computer hacking to extort and one count of wire fraud.

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Summon the warrantless bulk collection apologists. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-09 15:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

A very tame example of why we shouldn't be allowing warrantless bulk data collection - the obvious better examples are those of journalists assassinated - such as Michael Hastings.