Cyber Beat: Daily Roundup of Social Media and Tech Stories 2/23

Hackers and cyber-crime.

• LulzSec turncoat ‘Sabu’ dodges sentencing for second time
• Hacker takes advantage of Pistorius-Steenkamp tragedy
• Man Sentenced For Stealing 23,000 SSNs, Selling Them To Gang

 

Social Media and the courts.

Abuse of power or appropriate? Judge orders lawyer to remove comment about non-halal meat lawsuit settlement and hand over names of hundreds who clicked “like.”

• Facebook User Challenges Order To Take Down Criticism Of McDonald’s Class Action

Think before you ‘like.’

•  American Bar Association issues guidelines on ‘Judge’s Use of Electronic Social Networking Media’ (pdf)

 

Citizen Tweeters.

Those who go where the mainstream media won’t in Mexico – tweets about the violence, from the ground.

• ‘War Correspondents’ In Mexico Address Mainstream Media Shortcomings, Use Twitter To Spread Information

 

Bad behavior.

When will they learn? Cheaters online always get caught.

• Russian Google Street View Reveals Cheating Boyfriend 

Texting and flying is bad.

•  Was a texting pilot behind JFK runway fail?

 

For gamers.

‘Skyrim” game maker reaches out and touches a grieving gamer fan.  Awesome.

• I wrote a silly post a month ago about how Skyrim helped me through a tough time. I didn’t expect to receive such a touching response from Bethesda.