Bruce Scheier reports on some intersting comments regarding the recent Minnesota court hearing that just having PGP on your computer can be used as evidence against you: The opinion is not explicit that the PGP evidence was used to show criminal intent or consciousness of guilt, but I think that is fairly implied, especially since [...]
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Thoughts On Using PGP As Evidence
June 9th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Crime, Freedom & Democracy, Privacy
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The Secretary Who Stole £4 Million
June 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Crime
The BBC reports of a secretary who lived the good life by stealing 4 million pounds from the company she was working at: Now a new BBC drama documentary tells the extraordinary story of the Goldman Sachs secretary who stole £4.5m from her bosses, and spent it all on a lavish lifestyle of diamonds, designer [...]
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Holding Computer Files Hostage – Show Me The Money
May 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Crime, Security
Bruce Schneier writes about a possible serious problem from an article posted at cnn.com: WASHINGTON (AP) — Computer users already anxious about viruses and identity theft have new reason to worry: Hackers have found a way to lock up the electronic documents on your computer and then demand $200 over the Internet to get them [...]
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PGP Used As Evidence In Trial
May 25th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Crime, Freedom & Democracy, Privacy
In a scary turn of events an appeals court in Minnesota has ruled that having PGP installed on your computer can be used as evidence against you: A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent. Ari David Levie, who was [...]
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TMF Under Investigation By Dutch Police
May 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Business, Crime, Mobiles & Gadgets
A member of the Dutch parliament has asked police there to launch an investigation into an awards show that aired on TMF, a music video channel in the Netherlands owned by MTV Networks. Apparently the people producing the TMF Awards thought it’d be totally cool to ask viewers to vote by text message for their [...]
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The $100.000.000 identity heist
January 12th, 2005 · No Comments · Crime, Privacy
The BBC reports that Philip Cummings, a 35 year old British national has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for identity fraud. This for information he got as a computer helpdesk employee. An excerpt: A Briton involved in what is believed to be the largest identity theft case ever has been sentenced to 14 years [...]
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Find a bug, go to jail
January 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Crime, Freedom & Democracy, Security
French security researcher Guillaume Tena, who is working at Harvard University, faces 4 months in prison after being sued by Tegam for reverse engineering its Viguard antivirus software and publishing exploit codes for a number of vulnerabilities. According to a ZDNet article, he could also be sued by Tegam for 900,000 euros in damages. An [...]
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