I suppose these guys were doomed from the start. The VA screwed up big time, so petty theves who just saw a laptop computer will probably get 900 years for “rocking the boat.”
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8JALIAG0.htm?sub=apn_news_down&chan=db
2 teens accused in theft of VA computer
The Associated Press/WASHINGTON
By BRIAN WESTLEY Associated Press Writer
AUG. 5 10:51 P.M. ET Two teenagers were arrested Saturday in the theft of a laptop and hard drive containing sensitive data on up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel, authorities said.
So can a private citizen act like a government agency? It's that second class citizen question again.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/05/1417218&from=rss
Wiretapping Charges Dropped
Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday August 05, @01:06PM from the express-written-consent dept. Privacy Security
Ada_Rules writes "I realize that the end of a story is not nearly as sexy as the beginning, but police in Nashua have dropped the wiretapping charges against a man that had recorded both video and audio from on his home security system. The man had brought a videotape to the police station to back up a claim that a detective was rude to him while on his property as part of an investigation. In addition, the police have determined that the man's complaint about the detective was justified." 
Hard to tell if this is true, but there are some interesting quotes...
International crime rings, not hackers, true Internet villains
August 6, 2006 - 12:20PM
Organized crime is winning the Internet security war, specialists warned at the world's foremost gathering of computer hackers in Las Vegas.
... Online evil doers were crime rings working out of countries such as Russia, Romania and Brazil, and their nefarious technical skills were keeping ahead of computer security experts, veterans of the cyber-crime battle said.
"We are getting our butts kicked, there is no doubt about it," said Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense. "There is a lot more of a bond and a sharing of tools in their society than in ours."
... There is such a glut of stolen credit card data that it can be bought online for three US dollars each, said special agent Andrew Fried of the US Internal Revenue Service.
Fried estimated that one in five home computers in the country was infected with malicious computer code, or "malware."
Don't read this or you'll go directly to jail... It's not always high-tech...
http://digg.com/mods/Simple_Key_Mod_Makes_Most_All_Current_Locks_Obsolete
Simple Key Mod Makes Most All Current Locks Obsolete
Royal0rleans submitted by Royal0rleans 16 hours 15 minutes ago (via http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uv45y6vkcQ&search=bump%20key )
The most fundamental security device in the world has been hacked in a way so simply and quickly, this could be considered the biggest hack in history.
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