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Canadian cinema fined $10,000 for privacy invasion over bag search
A Canadian cinema has been fined C$10,000 for invasion of privacy when it searched a mother and daughter's bags for video cameras, but instead pulled out birth control pills from the daughter's purse. The mother had no idea. She sued. She won. Staff at the theater were searching customers' bags for video equipment that could be used for movie [...]
Russian spy ring needed some serious IT help
Couldn't the unnecessarily complicated means of communicating easily have been replaced with any number of prolific and untraceable communication methods that have been developed since the cold war? The Russian ring charged this week with spying on the United States faced some of the common security problems that plague many companies -- [...]
Washington Drug Agents Seize Pot Legalization Petitions
Washington drug agents have illegally seized signed petitions for marijuana legalization, according to organizers of ballot initiative I-1068. Marijuana advocacy group Sensible Washington says it has learned that a dozen signed copies of the marijuana legalization initiative for Washington State of which it is the sponsor, were seized last [...]
This is what happens when you talk smack about Ice-T
I know im not the only one that read that in his voice.
Discarded photocopier hard drives stuffed full of corporate secrets
Your office's high-end photocopier probably has a hard-drive used to store copies of documents that are scanned from the glass. Harvesting scanned documents from discarded office copiers (often returned at the end of a lease) yields a treasure-trove of fascinating corporate secrets. Of the dozens of multi-purpose copiers Beitner has cleaned out [...]
iPhone SMS database hacked in 20 seconds
It's a story tailor-made for the fear-mongering subset of news media. This week, a pair of gentlemen lured an unsuspecting virgin iPhone to a malicious website and, with no other input from the user, stole the phone's entire database of sent, received and even deleted text messages in under 20 seconds, boasting that they could easily lift personal [...]
SOCOM cheater convicted in grand jury investigation
There's a few valuable life lessons in the following story, so pay attention: A Pittsburgh news station recently reported on a 17-year-old boy who was disqualified from a SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals tournament after it was discovered he was cheating. In retaliation, the young man hacked into the official PlayStation site, and crashed it for 11 days back [...]
Bunnie Huang uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards’ crappy QA
When Bunnie Huang was in South China overseeing production on his versatile ChumbyOne device, he discovered a major quality issue with Kingston's MicroSD cards. At first, he assumed that he'd gotten a counterfeit batch, but further investigation proved them to be legit. Kingston wasn't willing to give Bunnie any details on its QA process, so [...]
Chinese pirates launch Ubuntu that looks exactly like Windows XP
From the Chinese pirate masters of the non-sea-faring variety comes... Ylmf OS! Not happy with pirating Windows XP itself, these creative Chinese have gone one step further and hacked Ubuntu to look exactly like Windows XP. Why have they moved to Ubuntu? Because their previous release, a pirate version of Windows XP itself, is being cracked down [...]
Prisoner excapes prison, creates Facebook account
Craig "Lazie" Lynch vanished from Hollesley Bay Prison in Suffolk in September this year close to the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary. Instead of hiding away from police Lynch has set up a Facebook account complete with a photograph sticking his middle finger up and boasts about eating 12lb steaks and his home being so warm it [...]
The raid that rocked the Met: Why gun and drugs op on 6,717 safety deposit boxes could cost taxpayer a fortune
It's gonna cost the cops, and us taxpayers, probably 10 times what they netted in actual criminal proceeds once the operation's finances has been collated from all the investigations and several hundred court cases of "slightly suspect" boxes with the cops paying out a 6 figure sum in each to resolve the trials on the basis that the suspects are [...]
Vegas uses computers to bust card counters
As if Vegas casinos don't already rake in enough money from suckers, now they are developing technology to automatically detect people who count cards. The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "count" of the cards, the same way a player would. It also measures how much each player is betting on each [...]
Wife bans FBI head from online banking
SAN FRANCISCO--No one is immune from cyberthreats, not even the head of the FBI. FBI Director Robert Mueller was banned by his wife from doing online banking after he nearly fell for a phishing scam, he said on Wednesday during a talk at the Commonwealth Club of California. He received an e-mail purporting to be from his bank that looked [...]
Bank of America demands thumbprint from man with no arms
The Bank of America in Tampa, Florida has a no-exceptions policy requiring a thumbprint when cashing a check. And they do mean no exceptions: the bank refused to cash a check for a man with no arms because he couldn't provide a fingerprint. "They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, 'Well, obviously you can't give us a thumbprint'," [...]
Subway yearbook photos from Improv Everywhere
The Subway Yearbook project is the latest bit of fun from the joy-sharing pranksters at Improv Everywhere... We installed a photography studio on a random subway car. We claimed that the MTA had hired us to take photos of every single person who rides the subway and that we'd be producing a yearbook at the end of the year. Most people were happy [...]
Megan Fox is “only fit to be a porn star”
I don't know much about Megan Fox, and I certainly have seen the Transformers movie. She may be an idiot. She may be unpleasant to work just like these guys said. However, they accused her of being unprofessional, and they did this in a letter that they posted on the company web site apparently without the permission of the people who are in [...]
Time to party like its Windows 95!
Remember the good old days of the 1990s, when you could teardrop attack any Windows user who'd annoyed you and bluescreen them? Microsoft reintroduces this popular feature in Windows 7, courtesy the rewritten TCP/IP and SMB2 stacks. IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT #!/usr/bin/python # When SMB2.0 recieve a "&" char in the "Process Id High" SMB header [...]
Massachusetts Representative (who raised local alcohol tax) caught during New Hampshire booze run
A Westport lawmaker who voted to hike the state sales and alcohol taxes was spotted brazenly piling booze in his car - adorned with his State House license plate - in the parking lot of a tax-free New Hampshire liquor store, the Herald has learned. Michael J. Rodrigues’ blue Ford Crown Victoria, emblazoned with his “House 29” [...]
Domain tasting scam ended by ICANN
"Domain Tasters" who grab a domain name for a few days and then return it before having to pay have been thwarted by a new ICANN policy that charges for excessive returns. Monthly returned domains have dropped 99.7% from a year ago. Domain tasters managed to make money with the practice, which essentially cost them nothing, in several ways. By [...]
This is why you shouldn’t allow your boss to be your Facebook friend
Facebook.com screenshots... the new bash.org This is why you shouldn't allow your boss to be your Facebook friend. (imgur.com)
