Tag: crime
Japanese woman jailed for killing virtual husband
Let’s be clear here, before we start. No physical harm has come to anyone here, so before you get all “omg wtf computer games make people violent”, think again. A Japanese lady has been jailed after she hacked into a game called “Maple Story”, and ‘killed’ her virtual husband’s avatar…
Another phone exchange hit by thieves
The second London telephone exchange in as many weeks has been raided by thieves, who have taken tens of thousands’ worth of pounds of networking equipment. The raid at 3.45am took down three local ISPs and left many customers without any connection until 2pm yesterday…
UK Police to provide online crime maps by end of 2008
Remember that time you saw that bloke legging it up the street followed by a team of hooded pursuers? I bet you’ve always wondered whether he was late for a meeting, just larking about or was in fact being chased into submission by a gang of teenage assailants wielding sticks with nails in them. Well, soon you’ll be able to find out.
Beware the Wasp Knife – makes getting stabbed up to 50% less enjoyable*
Meet the Wasp Knife. Wasp Knife’s creators had a problem. It seemed that boring old traditional knives weren’t quite deadly enough, so they decided to evolve the long-standing design and put a compressed gas cylinder and firing mechanism into the handle.
Copper thieves to blame for latest Sainsbury's website blackout?
Supermarket giant Sainbury’s had its website knocked offline for several hours following a break in at the company’s Internet Service Provider, Cable and Wireless. But the thieves weren’t looking for high tech server equipment or valuable customer data – one theory suggests that they were just looking for some copper cabling.
Noel Gallagher believes video games are partly to blame for knife crime culture
Poor old Noel must be getting old – he’s started blaming things he doesn’t understand for all the wrongs of society. Today, it’s knife crime that’s the fault of games.
Speaking to Radio 1’s news show, Gallagher said “People say it’s through violent video games and I guess that’s got something to do with it,” showing that he hasn’t lost his knack of recycling other people’s ideas and passing them off as his own.
“If kids are sitting up all night smoking super skunk and they…
Bobbies use Facebook to fight crime
Police in Greater Manchester are using social networking site Facebook to raise awareness of unsolved crimes. The Greater Manchester Police updates application gives you news feeds about unsolved crimes and appeals for witnesses in other cases. If you do have information on one of the crimes, you send them a tip directly using the sinisterly named ‘Submit Intelligence’ button…
CISTRAK – get an SMS from your stolen car
CIS has launched CISTRAK – a vehicle tracking device which allows motorists to locate a vehicle within 10 seconds.
Police launching criminal YouTube?
Manchester police have come over all forward-thinking, launching a new crime submission page that accepts photos and even videos of crimes.
So if you’ve just sat by doing nothing, idly filming a gang of youths mugging a pensioner on your mobile, it’s possible to alleviate your guilt a little bit by sending the footage to the police…
MMS-witness: citizens can text in pics of criminals
Waleli, a wireless innovations company, has developed a new system called MMS-witness that allows anyone with a camera on their mobile phone to assist in fighting crime.
It allows the police to easily accept pictures and movies taken by members of the public using mobile phones, and is supposed to increase the chances of a successful arrest by then sending relevant images back to police officers in the locality.
