FBI employees, entrusted with stopping computer crimes, commit them too

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Feb 22 - Mar 01 Features Dwarf Fortress: Ten hours with the most inscrutable video game of all time by Casey Johnston Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game's discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally "get into the swing of things." One of his many fortress death spirals began, as the downfalls of society often do, with an immigrant dwarf who suddenly succumbed to a "secretive mood." A short time later—kaboom. Read More Law & Disorder Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router by Nate Anderson Marmet, West Virginia is a town of 1,500 people living in a thin ribbon along the banks of the Kanawha River just below Charleston. The town's public library is only open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. It's housed in a small building the size of a trailer, which the state of West Virginia describes as an "extremely small facility with only one Internet connection." Which is why it's such a surprise to learn the Marmet Public Library runs this connection through a $15,000 to $20,000 Cisco 3945 router intended for "mid-size to large deployments," according to Cisco. Read More Law & Disorder FBI employees, entrusted with stopping computer crimes, commit them too by Nate Anderson Though FBI agents are held to a high standard of conduct, some fall short—far short. Take, for instance, an incident in 2007 when an FBI employee "drove past a felony traffic stop, yelled 'Rodney King' out his car window and momentarily lost control of his vehicle, swerving into the oncoming lane and almost striking a police officer," according an account of an internal FBI investigation. (When cops pulled him over, the employee claimed he had yelled, "Geeze Louise.") Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Ars Technicast, Episode 21: Sony teases us with PS4, and we like it Greenlight Capital drops lawsuit over Apple’s preferred stock Android and iPhone users may be giving BlackBerry a shot Ouya ready to ship to Kickstarter backers March 28, hits stores in June BlackBerry 10’s first over-the-air update arrives ahead of US launch Five-year-old runs up $2,500 in-app purchase tab with Apple Another Java zero-day exploit in the wild actively attacking targets Sodium-air battery shows potential Video: iPad is the brain for self-driving car Phones, caffeine, and ham (oh the ham!): a MWC 2013 photo tour Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at garn14.tech@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.