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Comment New Technology? (Score 1) 265

by usman_ismail on Thursday February 12, 2009 @04:22PM (#26832731) Attached to: New Tool Promises To Passively ldentify BitTorrent Files

They use packet sniffing and maintain a database of hashes of "bad" files. Does this qualify as new technology? So this is where the air force (Air Force Institute of Technology) spends their R&D budget.

Submission + - Shoe hurled as Chinese PM speaks (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by usman_ismail on Monday February 02, 2009 @06:03PM

usman_ismail writes: A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a "dictator".

Submission + - Details of all E-Mails in UK to be stored (bbc.co.uk)

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usman_ismail

on Friday January 09, 2009 @11:42AM

usman_ismail writes: "From March all internet service providers (ISPs) will by law have to keep information about every e-mail sent or received in the UK for a year.

Human rights group Liberty says it is worried what will happen next.

The Home Office insists the data, which does not include e-mails' content, is vital for crime and terror inquiries.

Some three billion e-mails are thought to be sent each day in the UK."

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