Police in the west of England said on Friday they had recovered a cache of stolen property having been led to the hoard — by a squirrel
The European Parliament has voted to ban spam by adopting the opt-in
system for unsolicited commercial e-mail, finally freeing the way for the entry into force of a European Parliament and Council directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector
As the US Congress continues its investigation of the Enron affair, human rights advocates are calling for a probe of the Bush administration’s possible role in another energy and influence-peddling scandal. The retarded monkey boy and US oil interests have ties to some of the key figures in the arms-for-oil scandal which has devastated Angola
French direct-broadcast satellite company Canal Plus alleges that NDS, a company owned by News Corp — which also owns BSkyB — Canal Plus’s biggest competitor in Europe — hacked the smart cards used by Canal Plus and published the hacks on the Internet — via Slashdot
Rob McEwen owned an underperforming gold mine in north-western Ontario, and he needed new ideas about where to dig. So he broke new ground — and made data on the mine available online to anyone who wanted to help. Eureka! The Internet gold rush was on
Perth-based spammer, T3 Direct, is suing Joseph McNichol, an anti-spam advocate, after being blacklisted by a spam prevention web site spews.org, in what is believed to be a first of its kind case world-wide and one that could end up bigger than Ben Hur
DARPA are working on Project Babylon, an attempt to create a portable, two-way, real-time, multi-lingual audible speech translator proposed to be run on everything from PDAs to wearable military hardware to workstations
The Philadelphia court has officially overturned the Children’s Internet Protection Act, the law that required blocking software to be installed in all libraries that receive federal funds
An FBI anti-terrorism investigation possibly involving Osama bin Laden was hampered by technical flaws in the Bureau’s controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance system. The incident, which occurred in March 2000, is described in newly-released FBI documents obtained under court order by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre. A written report describes the incident as part of a ‘pattern’ indicating ‘an inability on the part of the FBI to manage’ its foreign intelligence surveillance activities
If you had a smallpox vaccination as a child and think you are still protected, think again — almost everyone vaccinated before smallpox was eradicated in the mid-1970s has now lost their immunity
The CSIRO’s Dr John Rankin and Dr Terry Norgate told the Green Processing 2002 Conference in Cairns that metals can help in achieving globally sustainable development
Former tennis star Steffi Graf won a court case against Microsoft Germany on Tuesday over fake nude photos of her that were posted on a Web site run by the company
Esphion’s anti-denial of service attack tool performed well for the armed forces of five nations. The Auckland company was the only private sector organisation invited to last week’s Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration that attended. The Echelon boys will be well pleased by the result
The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association has officially launched a campaign to stem mobile phone theft, which could lead to changes in both the Telecommunications Act and the Crimes Act
OzEmail has announced plans to launch its OzEdsl service, following a small-scale trial of its new broadband service which has been running since 20 May
The religious zealots who photograph women entering abortion clinics and posts their photos on web sites have privacy advocates interested in their moronic tactics. Apparently, the group is run by some of the people involved in the Nuremberg Files
Australian scientists announced a breakthrough in efforts to clone the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, saying they had replicated some of the animal’s genes using DNA extracted from preserved male and female pups
A mobile phone made of paper, which is sent as a letter
, has won a competition sponsored by Sony
I found an odd little French search engine called KartOO, which presents its results in Flash, allowing you to refine your query interactively
International environmental criminals are outpacing slow-moving enforcement agencies as they line their pockets by plundering the planet
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