crimes
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Crazy Villains Caught Trying To Cut Through The Internet’s Undersea Cables
While the internet at large was freaking out about an apocalyptic attack that wasn’t really happening yesterday, something nefarious was going down at the bottom of the sea. Egyptian authorites found a trio of divers down there attempting to sever a crucial submarine communications cable.
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Google Glass And The Golden Age Of Creepshots
The early criticism of Google Glass — that it’s for arseholes, that it will lead to a dystopian Panoptican nightmare — is mostly well-founded. But what everyone has glossed over in their opening salvos is, I think, the most immediate and obvious problem Google Glass will precipitate: once these things stop being a rich-guy novelty…
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Police Deflate Smugglers’ Compressed-Air ‘Marijuana Cannon’
Border fences are really tall, so it’s not like you can just throw your packages of marijuana over them. No, you’d need something like a weed-apult or, better yet, a weed cannon to heave them over the wall.
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Watch A Chinese Hacker Launch An Invasion In Real Time
Are the Chinese after us? According to a new report, yes. Security firm Mandiant has detailed the exploits of a Chinese cyber espionage group it calls APT1. Mandiant claims to have evidence that APT1 has stolen “hundreds of terabytes of data” from 141 American organisations. The company also believes that APT1 is the 2nd Bureau…