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Experts Trying to Overturn Teacher’s Porn Conviction

25-Feb-07

According to an article in SecurityFocus,
On January 5, a six-person jury found former Kelly Middle School substitute teacher Julie Amero guilty of four counts of risk of injury to a minor. The charges stem from an October 19, 2004 incident when the computer in the classroom in which Amero was teaching started displaying pornographic pop-up [...]

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Make Retailers Pay for Data Breaches

23-Feb-07

“Lawmakers in Massachusetts are poised to consider legislation that would force retailers who suffer data breaches to cover the costs associated with any fraud-related losses by their customers, according to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal.” -Washington Post

That’s the best idea I’ve heard all day. Of course, it’s not exactly a new idea. Economists [...]

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SETI Finally Finds Something

21-Feb-07

A guy who runs SETI@home on a bunch of his computers used it to locate and recover his wife’s stolen laptop! The SETI client application sends its results to the main database every few days, and then downloads new work to do. Well, when this connection happens, the SETI database logs the client’s IP address. [...]

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Sandia Labs Backhacker Wins $4.3m in Court

20-Feb-07

A (former) security guy at Sandia Labs, Shawn Carpenter, was fired for “backhacking” systems that he detected attacks from. “Backhacking occurs when networks are attacked and someone on the hacked network responds with a counterhack or attack.” Even though he was cooperating with the FBI and Army Research Lab on the investigations, Sandia did not [...]

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