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contributed by k1w1
A recent Survey by Computer-world of 30 New Zealand companies claims that
most businesses feel that computer systems are incredibly secure and
practically never get hacked or cracked. Are they being ignorant of todays
problems or do they have some sort of super security?
IDG News
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contributed by B.K.
Buy yourself a scanner and a copy of Photoshop, counterfeit a few payroll
checks and you are instantly labeled a 'computer expert' and you have
committed the 'crime of the future'. PAHLESE!!! Simple counterfeiting does
not a 'computer expert' make. Counterfeiting has been around
for thousands of years how is this suddenly the 'crime of the
future'? When will the media learn that just because a crime happened to
involve a computer the criminal is not a hacker or computer expert. Hell
this guy can't even be considered a cracker.
NewsDay
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contributed by mortel
Yesterday HNN reported that in exchange for dropping the key escrow
requirements from the
Electronic Commerce Bill UK officials have given the IT industry until
April 1st to find a way to stop cyber criminals. One of the methods being
proposed is that the government hire hackers to break into to personal
computers of suspects and retrieve email and other items after they have
been decrypted.
Fox News
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contributed by freedom
Following up on the Microsoft ID story reported on by HNN yesterday Wired
Online has a decent article that gets into a little more technical detail.
One of the best things is a quote at the end of the article by Steven
Sinofsky, a Microsoft Vice President "I would say most people don't quite
get how computers work, and they're suspicious of computers in general," he
said. "That's probably why a lot of these privacy concerns are happening."
So now I am a paranoid idiot? I guess Microsoft feels that the best way to
win customers is to insult them.
Wired
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contributed by mortel
Justin Peterson, in jail for violating probation, being unhappy with
reporting done about him so far and concerned about rumors on the net that
he has AIDS has called a Sm@rt Reseller reporter from prison to give a
statement.
ZD
Net
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contributed by Space Rogue
This was just to cool not to mention. The Hilton Hotel Group has announced
that it is to become a sponsor of a privately funded plan to build a Hotel
in Space. It will be constructed from used Space Shuttle fuel tanks.
(Similar to the 'wet plan' of building the old Skylab out of used Saturn V
rockets)
When the Hilton Orbital Hotel is built, Arthur C Clark has said he wants
to be there. Me too, Me too.
BBC
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contributed by Anonymous
Cracked
We have recieved reports that the following sites have been
compromised:
http://www.jpn.co.jp/
http://www.kio.com.ar/
http://www.houseup.com.ar/
http://www.inrocks.com.ar/
http://www.university.com.ar
http://www.houseup.com.ar/
http://www.inrocks.com.ar/
http://www.shimoda.com.ar/
http://www.spilimbergo.org.ar/
http://www.mattioli.com.ar/
http://www.geomarketing.com.ar/
http://www.kio.com.ar/
http://www.elecciones97.com.ar
http://www.motorarg.com.ar/
http://www.revistagestion.com/
http://www.regena.com
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