A helicopter mechanic who popped off about his Middle East job on Facebook while at home in the US got more than an upbraiding from his bosses when he returned to his gig in the United Arab Emirates.

He was met in Abu Dhabi with an arrest, 10 days in jail, and a March 17 trial date—with a potential five years in prison if convicted. Thirty-year-old Ryan Pate of Belleair Bluffs, Florida, is accused of slandering his employer, which is illegal in the Emirates.

“I just couldn’t register it in my head because as an American growing up in the United States, the First Amendment right is just ingrained in my brain,” he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I never even entertained the fact that I would wind up in prison out here for something I put on Facebook in the United States.”

The Department of Justice issued a scathing report Wednesday concerning Missouri’s Ferguson Police Department, the agency that was cleared in this summer’s shooting death of an 18-year-old African-American boy named Michael Brown. The DOJ investigation in the aftermath of the shooting found systematic excessive force and racism—but it also discovered that the police department took a constitutionally suspect hard line against people trying to film officers in the field—all in the name of “officer safety.”

One man in a wheelchair filming a protest was arrested, the DOJ report said. Attorney General Eric Holder labeled the DOJ report “searing.”

“FPD officers also routinely infringe on the public’s First Amendment rights by preventing people from recording their activities,” the report said.

A new primetime CSI show about cyber crime is to debut Wednesday on CBS, but it’s already making its way on to pirate sites.

Featuring Patricia Arquette, CSI: Cyber is about the Cyber Crime Division of the FBI that tackles illicit online behavior. Ironically, the first episode was available on Tuesday, a full day ahead of its scheduled premiere.

“The leaked footage comes from a high quality copy and doesn’t have any visible watermarks,” according to TorrentFreak.

Hillary Rodham Clinton used a private e-mail service with a non-government handle while US secretary of state—potentially putting her electronic communications at risk from hackers.

US Department of State

Clinton, a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, has not publicly said why she used the private account—hdr22@clintonemail.com—for government affairs. But doing so raises security concerns and questions about whether the move was done to avoid disclosure of State Department communications under open records law.

A House committee is expected to issue subpoenas Wednesday about the issue.

The US system for guiding airplanes is open to vulnerabilities from outside hackers, the Government Accountability Office said Monday. The weaknesses that threaten the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to ensure the safety of flights include the failure to patch known three-year-old security holes, the transmission and storage of unencrypted passwords, and the continued use of “end-of-life” key servers.

The GAO said that deficiencies in the system that monitors some 2,850 flights at a time has positioned the air traffic system into an “increased and unnecessary risk of unauthorized access, use or modification that could disrupt air traffic control operations.” What’s more, the report said the FAA “did not always ensure that sensitive data were encrypted when transmitted or stored.” That information included stored passwords and “authentication data.”

Among the findings: