If you ask any Australian what the most annoying thing is about TV shows or movies, a common response is that it can take a long time for things popular in the US and UK to make it down under. Apparently, the Mafia has picked up on this, as they have started selling pirated movies and TV-shows on the streets, or have they?

I would pay $5 for a GOOD DVD, but no way I’ll shell out $20-$40 for Hollywood’s recent contributions from the movie factories. Of course, I currently pay $0 because I don’t support terrorist organizations like…

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Andrew Kellett, 23, from Leeds UK was banned from YouTube after he posted more than 80 videos of crimes committed by him.
He was also given an interim Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) by Leeds magistrates for a range of offences.
One of the videos showed Kellett leaving a petrol station without paying. In other videos he was seen taking

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland an ASBO is a civil order made against a person who has been shown to have engaged in anti-social behaviour. In the UK, there has been criticism that an ASBO is sometimes viewed as a…

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Prosecution looms for creating a fake MySpace profile

Now she has been charged with “accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress”, because she broke MySpace's terms of use, which forbid “impersonating or attempting to…

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Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes.
The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June.

The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, is a USB “thumb drive” that was quietly distributed to a handful of law-enforcement agencies last June. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith described its use…

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Representatives of the EU's 27 member states formally agreed today to harmonize their respective countries' definitions of criminally prosecutable acts of terrorism by expanding them to include three new types of crimes: “public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, [terrorist] recruitment, and training for terrorism.”

The decision wasn't without controversy, and misgivings about the possible limits on freedom of expression implied in the Amendment to the 2002 Council Framework Decision on combating terrorism were aired in a round-table session on…

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A team from Princeton University has developed ways to break disk encryption, including Bitlocker, Truecrypt, Apple encryption, and Linux encryption, if the computer is in sleep mode or sitting at a password prompt, or even if it’s just been turned off.

This is surprising, but there is a partial solution, simply glue your memory modules to the motherboard. That will take precious seconds of fiddling around. Glue the memory cover to the case. More seconds. Provide a little circuit that uses a…

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