An audit of ten Australian Federal Government web sites has found most contained serious security holes and were at risk from hackers. While Bug hunter, Rain Forest Puppy, crafts a full disclosure policy to nudge vendors to acknowledge and fix security holes in software products, or be expose
Australia and New Zealand are key partners in Echelon, the satellite spying system whose existence is still being denied by US authorities, a European Parliament report has concluded
In response to last week’s catastrophic terrorist attacks, the retarded monkey boy plans to ask Congress to approve far-reaching legislation that rewrites US laws dealing with electronic surveillance, immigration and support for terrorists
The US National Security Agency engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, a German publication, Allgemeine Zeitung, has reported. Western and Middle East intelligence services received warnings more than six months ago that terrorists were planning attacks using hijacked airplanes against prominent symbols of American and Israeli culture
in the United States and elsewhere
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth — that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. But sanity was a prior casualty: it was the loss of sanity that led to war in the first place
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has for the first time given his approval to a Commonwealth-backed deal to end the farm seizure crisis
Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry — Software libre!
— and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it. A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option
The Federal Government announced yesterday it was considering an overhaul of media ownership laws but Labor immediately branded the move a desperate bid to impress a few media proprietors
in the months before the election
Microsoft’s antitrust battle against the US government has drawn out of the woodwork a number of supporters for a quick resolution — unfortunately, not all of them are alive
Environmentalists and the Queensland government have been angered by the latest moves by the federal government in the approvals process for oil drilling on the Great Barrier Reef
Britain is considering a controversial change to citizenship rules to require immigrants to learn English as a condition of gaining nationality
Despite recent attempts by the Chinese Government to restrict Internet access and curtail the burgeoning growth of Internet cafes, the Chinese continue to flock to the Internet in their millions
The Federal Opposition has forced Telstra into disclosing an embarrassing cover up, revealing a backlog of 20,000 faults on its telephone network Australia-wide
The $6.2 million Pentagon program designed to let Americans living overseas vote online received only 84 ballots last year. An estimated six million Americans are currently living overseas. That means the experiment — which the Pentagon describes as a success — spent $74,000 per voter
On 6 October, the Commonwealth Heads of Government — CHOGM — will be meeting in Brisbane at the Convention Centre. Fifty-four heads of state from Commonwealth countries, including HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and John Howard, will be meeting in private to discuss world economic policy. Stop CHOGM has been set up by the Stop Chogm Alliance to help build the biggest possible blockade of the CHOGM meeting
A senior Tibetan official says the Chinese government will decide on a successor for the Dalai Lama. But such an appointment flies in the face of the spiritual leader’s prediction that his reincarnation will be found outside China
The National Crime Authority has called for a medically supervised heroin trial to help combat the drug trafficking and money laundering cycle which was fuelling the pervasive spread of organised crime, but Australia’s spineless Prime Minister, John Howard, has rejected the suggestion
Australian taxpayers now fund 84 percent of all the drugs prescribed by doctors. It’s a massive tonic for the drug industry, and companies spend a lot of those taxpayer dollars trying to get doctors to choose their drugs rather than someone else’s. They win favour with lavish meals at top restaurants, harbour cruises, dancing girls and expensive holidays… marketing methods that many experts believe are causing doctors to prescribe excessively and inappropriately
French Greens have symbolically renamed Paris’ riverside motorway — named after the late President Georges Pompidou — in a fresh strike in the war between the city’s cyclists and the motor car
According to an internal Salvation Army document, the Bush administration is working with the nation’s largest charity, the Salvation Army, to make it easier for government-funded religious groups to practice hiring discrimination against gay people
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