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Entertainment Industry Seeking Ammendments to Anti-Terrorism Data Tracking Legislation

The music industry is seeking several amendmants to anti-crime and terrorist data tracking measures in Europe to help it battle piracy. The Open Rights Group in a story entitledMusic industry tries to hijack serious crime legislation in Europe has revealed the measure being taken by the industry to gain access to data logs of internet […]

Anti-Gaming Crusader Barred from Law in Alabama

Showing that there is both sanity and justice aplenty left in the courts of Alabama, a judge from that state has barredinfamous anti-computer gaming crusader, Jack Thompson, from practicing law there again.
The incident comes at the end of Thompson’s involvement in a case where his legal team was seeking to hold the makers of Grand […]

Surveillance Cameras for Palm Beach

Another rollout of police surveillance cameras is being planned to keep the misbehaving folks of West Palm Beach in Florida under the authoritative gaze of the local PD. According to the report the city is aiming to become the “most closely monitored city in South Florida” - a fine ambition.
The cameras themselves can scan a […]

Stolen Boeing Laptop Could Reveal Data of 161k Employees

This isn’t so much misbehaviour as just horrible, horrible incompetence. Boeing has revealed that one of its laptops has been stolen. The story fromCNET says that the laptop was taken by a thief not from Boeing grounds, but from a public area. Nothing too unusual so far.
The catcher is that the laptop contained the data […]

The Boom in IED Technology

For those who are a little unfamiliar with “military-speak” an IED stands for an “Improvised Explosive Device.” These are the type of bombs that are currently being used widely by the insurgency in Iraq as a weapon against the coalition (often referred to as “roadside bombs”). By military standards they are regarded generally as pretty […]