As heiress to the In-N-Out burger chain, Lynsi Snyder is the youngest female billionaire in America. But the 30-year-old recently revealed the dark side of her family’s power and fortune. In an interview with Orange Coast magazine, Snyder says she was nearly kidnapped twice.
Wired interviews FBI’s most wanted terrorist over Twitter
Last month, the State Department announced it would pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of Omar Shafik Hammami, an American-born jihadist, amateur rapper and the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist accused of providing “material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization known as al-Shabab.” On Thursday, Wired published an interview it conducted with Hammami—or at least someone it […]
Fugitive Caught 41 years After Escaping NJ Prison
A most-wanted murderer who has been on the run since he escaped a New Jersey prison and allegedly hijacked a plane from Detroit in the 1970s has been caught after an investigation that spanned four states, three continents and four decades. FBI and New Jersey officials tracked hunted killer George Wright to a town outside […]
Osama Thwarting U.S. Electronic Surveillance
During the Osama raid, elite Navy Seals captured more than just bin Laden’s body. They managed to score an “electronic trove” of intelligence on numerous hard drives, thumb drives, USBs, DVDs, and CDs, all of which are currently being searched through. Considering Osama’s well-founded paranoia, extracting intelligible data is going to be more complicated than […]
Even in Death, Osama Bin Laden is Causing American Airports to Tighten Security
Yes, it is possible for American airports to enforce even stricter security. As soon as the leader of the notorious 9-11 attacks was killed, the department of Homeland Security and other federal groups have been/are on alert for threats from groups, such as Al-Qaeda, who may be seeking retaliation. In case the assassination of Osama […]
