I.
More than 50 years after D.B. Cooper parachuted out of a commercial airplane with a bag full of cash, there’s now a lawsuit asking the court to force the FBI to disclose its records in the case. Kudos to Court Watch for finding the court filing.
II.
A former member of Pussy Riot recently shared that she’d been recruited by Russia’s FSB security service and cooperated with the agency for three years. In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes blackmail, death threats, and the agency tasking her to help kidnap and murder a Kremlin enemy.
III.
I signed up for an introductory flight lesson with American Flyers and got to fly a single engine Piper Pilot around Morristown, NJ yesterday! You can track the entire 30-minute flight on Flightradar24. (Oh, and I did a barrel roll in the simulator too.)
IV.
The U.S. Justice Department is going after Oxygen Forensics, a top firm in the digital forensics space, for concealing that it’s owned and operated by Russians. Up until last week, Oxygen Forensics worked with numerous EU and U.S. agencies, including the IRS, DHS, and the Justice Department. What puzzles me is how these agencies vetted Oxygen Forensics. The company’s Russian ownership was reportedly an open secret, something journalist Kim Zetter wrote about in 2016.