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Submission + - "Mafiaboy" releases autobiography

Submitted by vieux schnock on Monday October 13, 2008 @08:28AM

vieux schnock writes: Seems that "Mafiaboy", the young Canadian that paralysed multiples sites in 2000, including CNN, has been getting some press lately. Security Portal has a story that he is releasing his autobiography The site has these Wise Words though: "Commercialdom peeks through, though, as apparently the book was "co-written" by Craig Silverman, an established journalist rom [sic] Montreal."

Submission + - Boy finds 1981 Smithsonian error

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vieux schnock

on Thursday April 03, 2008 @06:30PM

vieux schnock writes: "Yahoo News has an interesting story about a fifth grader who found an error in the museum's Tower of Time where the Precambrian was mistakenly labeled as an era. He received a letter of commendation for his discovery. The Smithsonian's solution to the problem? '(S)imply painting over the word "era"'.

P.S. No lame jokes about being less smart than a fifth grader. Yahoo News already did it. ;-)"

Submission + - Hacking Scam Called "Largest in Canadian Histo (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by vieux schnock on Thursday February 21, 2008 @10:05AM

vieux schnock writes: It's strange that no one noticed the recent crackdown of computer hackers in Quebec.

From the article: "Police raided several homes across Quebec on Wednesday and arrested 16 people in their investigation, which they say uncovered the largest hacking scam in Canadian history. (...) The hackers collaborated online to attack and take control of as many as one million computers around the world that were not equipped with anti-virus software or firewalls (...)"

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