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News for 121999
contributed by n0b0dy
Anthony C. LoBaido, a roving international correspondent for World Net
Daily, claims to have spent seven weeks with the Hong Kong Blondes in a
rare and exclusive interview. The Hong Kong Blondes are a subversive
group that is attempting to disrupt China's infrastructure through
electronic means. The weird issue here is that this unprecedented
interview fails to reveal much in the way of new verifiable data.
Which seems weird since this guy supposedly spent seven weeks with
them. It does however, seem to tie together all the facts that have
already been published about the HKBs.
World
Net Daily
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contributed by Ryan
Looks like the Netscape mess announced yesterday, where people's email
passwords are left laying around on your hard drive, was actually first
discovered over a year ago and it is much simpler than first thought.
To Netscape's credit they are just conforming to the POP3 protocal
which sends passwords in the clear anyway.
Thievco
Security
Focus
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contributed by Evil Wench
A study by the Electronic Privacy Information Center has scrutinized
privacy policies on 100 of the most popular online shopping sites and
compared those policies with fair information practices. The group
found that none of the 100 sites met all of the basic criteria for
privacy protection.
The
Washington Post
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contributed by Evil Wench
The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate Court has thrown out Microsoft's
lawsuit, saying that they not proved Yadu Technology Group, was the
correct defendant. Microsoft had accused the Yadu Group of using
pirated Microsoft products on its office computers, and asked for 1.5
million yuan (about $180,000) in compensation.
C|Net
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contributed by Evil Wench
There isn't a lot of information available here but it would appear
that a London newspaper The Express has turned in a suspected
cyber intruder. The intruder allegedly called The Express and offered
to shut down the presses of the competing paper the Daily Mail
for £600,000. The Express notified the police, who arrested the
55-year-old suspect from Worthing, East Sussex and charged him with
violating the Computer Misuse Act. (Somehow I doubt this guy had the
capabilitiy to actually shut down the presses.)
The
UK Register
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contributed by Evil Wench
The website of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, a government
watchdog group charged with policing upcoming Internet censorship laws,
has had its website defaced for the third time in almost as many weeks.
Fairfax
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