Topic: COPYRIGHT - on August 19, 2009 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
BSA Softens Anti-Piracy Message
The Business Software Alliance has a new anti-piracy video that for the first time uses humor instead of scare tactics to get out its message.
The alliance, consisting of about 80 companies — including Apple, Microsoft and Adobe — is the counterpart to the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Topic: WEB - on August 19, 2009 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Bungling cybercops' r00t-y0u.org sting backfires - Hack me? Hack you!
Australian Federal police have been humbled after boasting of taking over an underground cybercrime forum - only for hackers to break into a federal police computer system, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Police computer security experts claimed responsibility for taking over the r00t-you.org cybercrime forum as part of a sting operation on ABC's Four Corners TV programme on Monday night entitled Fear in the Fast Lane. The Feds had reportedly configured their own systems as a honeypot designed to track and trace denizens logging into the forum. Police gained access to the forum not through infiltration but after raiding the Melbourne home of the forum's alleged administrator last Wednesday.
theregister.co.uk Hackers break into police computer as sting backfires old shit
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 19, 2009 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Chilli bombs to be issued to security forces
The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has finished trials for hand grenades that use chillies to choke the respiratory tract and cause the eyes to water.
"It gives out such pungent smoke that makes one come out of one’s hiding place," said R.B. Srivastava, chief of the Directorate of Life Sciences at DRDO. “The war scenario is changing. Low intensity conflict is the norm of the day.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 19, 2009 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Some 30,000 pot plants seized near California fire
Some 30,000 marijuana plants were seized from a pot farm run for a Mexican drug cartel in a remote corner of a national forest charred by an 88,000-acre (35.6 hectare) wildfire, California officials said on Tuesday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 19, 2009 at 10:36:00 AM CEST
Cocaine underwear in Spain
Drug smugglers are seeking ever more inventive ways of smuggling cocaine into the country with two recent cases highlighted by the EFE news agency. The first was in Tarragona last week, where a man from Ghana was arrested at the city’s port with 2.6 kilos of cocaine hidden in a women’s girdle strapped to his body. He’d been passed the drugs in a toilet by the Filipino crew member of an Italian ship who’d smuggled the cocaine on board the ship in Costa Rica.
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