Friday, 9. October 2009

Jail chaos as lag hacker is left in charge of computer system


He was left unguarded and hacked into the system's hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts. Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.

mirror.co.uk

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Inhaftierter Hacker knackte Gefängniscomputer


Die Verwaltung eines englischen Gefängnisses stellt für Programmierarbeiten einen Häftling an, der dort, wegen Kreditkartenbetrugs im Internet seit 2005 in Haft sitzt. Der als "König der Phisher" bekannte 27-jährige Hacker nutzte die Chance, hackte sich in einem unbeobachteten Moment in die zentrale Festplatte des Gefängnis-Systems und verbarrikadierte sie mit mehreren Passwörtern.

spiegel.de

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The Pirate Bay Relocates to a Nuclear Bunker


The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an ISP that can provide them with a facility that can resist a nuclear attack as well as electromagnetic pulse bombs.

torrentfreak.com

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French presidency makes 400 unauthorized copies of DVD


The French satirical investigative journalism weekly “Le Canard Enchaîné“ reveals that our holier-than-thou presidency is in fact a pirate’s lair. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the presidential audiovisual services produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52 minutes documentary “A visage découvert : Nicolas Sarkozy“.

French presidency makes 400 unauthorized copies of DVD

serendipity.ruwenzori.net

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