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Kim Dotcom offers to come to US rather than be extradited
Even though he has been busy accusing Vice President Joe Biden of orchestrating the raid on his home (a charge since denied), having pool parties, and producing ridiculous rap videos, Kim Dotcom now says he’s ready to come to the United States, rather than be extradited, as a way of speeding up the entire judicial process in his international copyright case.
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US law enforcement phone snooping on the rise
An inquiry by Congressional Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass) has revealed that the number of requests wireless carriers receive from US law enforcement for information about their customers has increased steadily, but just how often the police use mobile phones to track individuals' whereabouts remains unclear.
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AusCERT loses passwords to Govt service
The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) has conceded losing a DVD containing the usernames and passwords of subscribers to the Federal Government's Stay Smart Online Alert Service in the mail.
AusCERT sent the disc — containing usernames, email addresses, passwords and recovery phrases — through Australia Post on April 11 but it was never received as intended by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
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If Hackers Didn't Exist, Governments Would Have to Invent Them
The hackers who dominate news coverage and popular culture -- malicious, adolescent techno-wizards, willing and able to do great harm to innocent civilians and society at large -- don't exist
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UK MoD extends cyber security deal with BT
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced a contract extension for cyber security services from BT Global Services.
The seven-year contract builds extra capabilities on top of an existing commercial off the shelf-based cyber defence solution that BT provides to protect the MoD's global IT estate, called eCND (enhanced computer network defence). The system also has an incident archive to enable the MoD to learn from previous events.
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