Topic: DRUGS - on October 22, 2013 at 4:50:00 PM CEST
How FBI brought down cyber-underworld site Silk Road
A behind-the-scenes look at the federal agents' digital detective work
Criminals who prowl the cyber-underworld's "darknet" thought law enforcement couldn't crack their anonymous trade in illegal drugs, guns and porn. But a series of arrests this month, including the bust of the black market site Silk Road, shows the G-men have infiltrated the Internet's back alley.
Computer experts suspect the government simply beat the cyber-pirates at their own game: hacking.
The Silk Road website, which has a customer-friendly electronic storefront that displayed bricks of cocaine as deftly as Amazon displays books, was the cyber-underworld's largest black market, with $1.2 billion in sales and nearly a million customers.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 22, 2013 at 4:36:00 PM CEST
Studie: Mehr Einnahmen durch Sucht als Kosten
Einnahmen höher als volkswirtschaftlicher Schaden - Staat hält 1,5 Milliarden Euro für Suchtforschung zurück
Die Sucht nach Alkohol, Nikotin und harten Drogen verursacht in Österreich pro Jahr einen volkswirtschaftlichen Schaden von 777 Millionen Euro. Die staatlichen Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf von Alkohol und Zigaretten sowie den Abgaben auf Glücksspiel sollen die Kosten aber bei weitem übersteigen. Sie belaufen sich laut einer aktuellen Studie auf 2,2 Milliarden Euro.
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Topic: ART - on October 22, 2013 at 3:11:00 PM CEST
Fake Banksy Sells Out
Sehr schöner Kommentar zum Hype um Banksys New York-Tour: Dave Cicirelli, Lance Pilgrim und George Gross haben eine Woche nach Banksys Popup-Shop im Central Park das Ding nachgebaut und verkauften dort Fake-Banksys inklusive Unechtheitszertifikat für exakt denselben Preis. Zur Erinnerung: Banksy hatte an einem ganzen Tag magere 420 Dollar gemacht. Die Jungs hier haben den kompletten Straßenladen innerhalb von einer Stunde ausverkauft und mit den 40 Artworks rund 2400 Dollar gemacht, rund das Sechsfache. Hoffentlich gehen sie mit dem Geld ordentlich feiern, haben’se sich verdient.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 22, 2013 at 3:10:00 PM CEST
Slovakia to Drop Marijuana Seeds from Drug List
The seeds of cannabis sativa should be dropped from the list of narcotics in Slovakia as of March 2014, the government decided October 16. The decision must still be confirmed by parliament and the president, but it is considered to be only a formality, given that the parliament is dominated by the ruling Smer party and President Ivan Gašparovič is widely viewed as a Smer ally, the TASR newswire wrote.
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Topic: WEB - on October 22, 2013 at 3:09:00 PM CEST
A Live Map of Ongoing DDoS Attacks
Check out the Digital Attack Map. It was produced in a collaborative effort by Google Ideas and Arbor Networks to raise awareness about distributed denial of service attacks. You know, those malicious digital attempts to choke, or shutdown websites by sending them volumes of traffic far too large for them to handle. The map 'surfaces anonymous attack traffic data to let users explore historic trends and find reports of outages happening on a given day,' as its about page explains. Created using attack data from Arbor's 'ATLAS® global threat intelligence system,' this is the D.A.R.E. of DDoS — it's about the danger of having information streams cut off. Under the heading 'DDoS Attacks Matter,' Google and Arbor explain that 'sites covering elections are brought down to influence their outcome, media sites are attacked to censor stories, and businesses are taken offline by competitors looking for a leg up
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on October 22, 2013 at 3:07:00 PM CEST
Mann schnitt sich in Kärnten auf Bahnhofstoilette Penis ab
Ein Mann hat sich auf der Toilette eines Regionalzuges bei einem Halt in Grafenstein bei Klagenfurt einen Teil seines Gliedes mit einem Messer abgeschnitten. Das berichtet die "Kleine Zeitung" in ihrer Dienstag-Ausgabe. Der Verletzte wurde ins Klinikum Klagenfurt gebracht, nach einer Operation ist sein Zustand laut Spital stabil.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 22, 2013 at 3:05:00 PM CEST
Fart-proof Underwear
A healthcare underwear company has designed a range of briefs and boxers which use chemical warfare technology to filter unwanted gas. The hi-tech pants, created by Shreddies Ltd. based in Leicestershire, England, feature a highly absorptive carbon cloth back panel which traps and neutralizes flatulence odors.
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Topic: NEWS english - on October 22, 2013 at 3:04:00 PM CEST
Bill to Ban Certain Tattoos, Body Piercings Passes Senate
The Arkansas Senate passed a bill to ban tattoos, piercings and other similar body modifications which it characterizes as “non-traditional,” recently.
Senator Missy Irvin of Mountain View, Arkansas sponsored the bill entitled ”An Act To Limit Body Art Procedures”. She says that body modifications should be limited to “traditional” tattoos and piercings. Her proposal was to essentially ban scarification procedures and dermal implants, as well as certain tattoos which remain yet to be defined as by the vague language of the bill she sponsored.
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