Scottish Man Jailed After Reporting Stolen Marijuana To Police

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A Scottish man has been jailed for 10 months after he reported the theft of his own cannabis plants to the police, reports the BBC. 

David Williamson said he was held at gunpoint by four men as they robbed him of his drugs. After a Scottish court heard him admit that the stolen property was his marijuana it issued a search warrant of Williamson's apartment, believing he was cultivating and manufacturing the drug. 

Police later found 20 seedlings and cultivation equipment in his apartment. Williamson claimed that he was using the drug himself to treat his Hepatitis C. 

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The San Francisco Police Department Is Launching An Internal Investigation Regarding The Search For The iPhone 5 (AAPL)

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The San Francisco Police Department is conducting an internal investigation regarding the the questionable search of a man's home for a missing iPhone 5, reports SF Weekly.

We previously reported on the incident when it was suspected that Apple employees were impersonating San Francisco police officers. It later came to light that Apple employees were accompanied to the house by the SFPD, who waited outside while the search was conducted.

From the SF Weekly's report:

"The incident has raised questions about police collusion with Apple, particularly since no official record of the incident was made by the officers involved. Questions also persist about whether Apple employees might have misrepresented themselves as police officers, which is a crime in California, as in most states."

The SFPD has very little to say to illuminate the matter, but if you're interested, check out SF Weekly's article.

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Police Found A Dead Body At The Bottom Of An NFL Player's Pool Yesterday

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A man drowned after a party at the home of Houston Texans defensive end Antonio Smith on Saturday night.

Police were called to Smith's house at 9:30 a.m. yesterday, and found a 37-year-old man fully clothed and drowned at the bottom of Smith's pool.

Authorities say foul play is not suspected.

"Apparently, he stayed out there by himself," Fort Bend County Sheriff's Capt. James Burger said. "In the morning, when people woke up and went outside, they discovered him in the pool."

He was not associated with the team.

Around 100 people attended the party, including "4 or 5" Texans players.

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That New "Lost iPhone" Story Was A Bunch Of BS, Say San Francisco Police

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The Major Global Corporations That Aided Libya's Secret Police

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When George Bush lifted trade restrictions against Libya in 2004, Colonel Qaddafi's regime went on a "surveillance-gear shopping spree."

Evidence of this global buying were present on the bottom floor of a six-story Tripoli building Monday as reporters from The Wall Street Journal were taken to the dictators Internet monitoring station.

The French tech firm Bull SA, and their subsidiary Amesys installed many of the systems Qaddafi's regime used to closely watch Libyans online activity.

Even Boeing held talks with the dictator earlier this year to install state-of-the-art Internet monitoring products, but the civil war put an end to any further contracts. Qaddafi put a strong focus on Internet activity despite that of the 6.6 million people in Libya only 100,000 residents had Internet subscriptions.

The Journal reports on the Amesys system installed in 2009:

The Eagle system allows agents to observe network traffic and peer into people's emails, among other things. In the room, one English-language poster says: "Whereas many Internet interception systems carry out basic filtering on IP address and extract only those communications from the global flow (Lawful Interception), EAGLE Interception system analyses and stores all the communications from the monitored link (Massive interception)."

On its website, Amesys says its "strategic nationwide interception" system can detect email from Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail and see chat conversations on MSN instant messaging and AIM. It says investigators can "request the entire database" of Internet traffic "in real time" by entering keywords, email addresses or the names of file attachments as search queries.

As the Arab Spring blew up around him Qaddafi struggled to place further controls on communications, but it was too late.

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