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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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 18, 2009 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
Campaign to win official apology for Alan Turing
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to win a posthumous apology for computer pioneer Alan Turing over his conviction for homosexuality.
The brilliant mathematician, who spent his key years at Manchester University, is hailed as one of the founders of modern computing.
But a conviction for homosexuality effectively ended his career. Troubled Turing went on to commit suicide in 1954, aged just 41.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 18, 2009 at 2:38:00 PM CEST
It's Time to Legalize Drugs
"Public drug dealing creates an environment where disputes about money or respect are settled with guns."
"Legalization would not create a drug free-for-all. In fact, regulation reins in the mess we already have."
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 18, 2009 at 2:12:00 PM CEST
Wir wollen, dass du mit uns kommst
Aliens mit zitronenförmigen Köpfen, Laserstrahlen und Entführungsversuche von Außerirdischen: Das britische Verteidigungsministerium hat erneut Akten über angebliche Ufo-Sichtungen veröffentlicht. SPIEGEL ONLINE dokumentiert einige rätselhafte Fälle.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 18, 2009 at 2:10:00 PM CEST
UFOs made 600 visits to the UK in a single year, according to MoD 'X-Files'
Hundreds of Britons had 'close encounters' with UFOs, according to previously-classified documents released by the Ministry of Defence today.
The sightings were made between 1981 and 1996 from observers including police officers, fighter pilots and school children. They range from lights in the sky to close contact with aliens with 'lemon-shaped heads', and include detailed analysis on some of the UK's most well-known cases.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 18, 2009 at 2:07:00 PM CEST
Music Posters by Günther Kieser
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Topic: WERBUNG - on August 18, 2009 at 2:02:00 PM CEST
Are You Being Manipulated By Subliminal Ads?
When I was in high school, I had a friend who was doing a project on subliminal messages. Of course I had no idea what he was talking about.
So he explained in small words so that I could understand. It went something like this: "A subliminal message is something embedded in something else that is not recognized by your conscious mind. Like in an advertisement."
He then showed me a page torn from a magazine. On the page was a woman in a conservative dress. She was attractive, and somewhat sexy. I don't recall what the ad was for.
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on August 18, 2009 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Klenk-Blog im Justizministerium wieder abrufbar
Website fiel internem Content-Filter zum Opfer
Klenks Seite beinhalte demnach "Wörter und Inhalte", die in die Kategorien "Sex, Chat, Gambling und Hacking bzw. Spyware, criminal activity, violence, weapons, illegal drugs" fielen, weshalb die Website für die Mitarbeiter nicht zugänglich war, (Antwort des Ministeriums an Florian Klenk können Sie hier auf florianklenk.com nachlesen). Mittlerweile sei die Seite aber wieder freigeschaltet worden, versicherte das Ministerium.
derstandard.at Antwort auf den offenen Brief an das Justizministerium
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on August 17, 2009 at 3:38:00 PM CEST
Justizministerium sperrt Blog von "Falter"-Autor
Das Justizministerium hat den Zugang zum Weblog des stellvertretenden Chefredakteurs der Wiener Stadtzeitung "Falter", Florian Klenk, für seine Mitarbeiter gesperrt. Klenk hatte zuletzt justizkritische Artikel in seinem Blog veröffentlicht und spricht von Zensur. Das Justizministerium weist die Vorwürfe zurück.
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