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Submission + - Athlete injured as (claimed) hacked drone filming race falls to ground (abc.net.au)

Submitted by jaa101 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @10:34PM

jaa101 writes: The owner of a drone, which fell and reportedly hit an athlete competing in a triathlon in Western Australia's Mid West, has said he believes the device was "hacked" into.

Submission + - Facebook Won't Take Down Undercover Cop Page in Australia (abc.net.au)

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jaa101

on Saturday October 20, 2012 @07:05PM

jaa101 writes: "Facebook has refused a request from Australian police to take down a page with details of undercover police vehicles saying saying it cannot stop people taking photos in public places. The original story is at http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/facebook-page-reveals-details-of-unmarked-police-cars/story-e6frf7kx-1226499939251 (paywall) but it doesn't give a link to the relevant page which seems to be at https://www.facebook.com/pages/VIC-Undercover-Police-Cars/131769163636069?ref=ts&fref=ts . This page for the state of Victoria has 12000 likes but a similar page for the state of Queensland has over 34000 at https://www.facebook.com/pages/QLD-undercover-police-cars/173981759325151?ref=ts&fref=ts and there are other Australian pages too."

Submission + - Assange asylum / electronic bracelet link (abc.net.au)

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jaa101

on Monday July 23, 2012 @06:36AM

jaa101 writes: "A late-night visit by the security contractor who maintained the electronic bracelet around Julian Assange's ankle was one reason why he decided to seek political asylum in the Ecuador embassy in London."

Submission + - Microsoft Pushes Skype with Windows Update

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jaa101

on Thursday June 28, 2012 @08:31PM

jaa101 writes: "Came in this morning to find many of our corporate boxes sporting shiny new Skype installations. Looks like they've been pushed by Microsoft. We have a WSUS server so the administrators of that may have overlooked something. There's discussion at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-GB/winserverwsus/thread/74a93b2b-e820-40ef-a45d-2815b57d164e with Microsoft claims that they only pushed if there was a Skype installation there already ... and refutations. Maybe our SoE had something in it that fooled the updater but the affected machines had nothing like a working Skype.
Was Microsoft running short of Skype supernodes? I guess it's likely to slow down Windows machines with unwanted services and use plenty of unwanted traffic for both home and corporate users. And these will be people who haven't agreed to the Skype ToS! We're using XP but probably Vista and 7 are affected too. Please Microsoft, release a new update to remove these unwanted installations."

Submission + - Australian ISP's Copyright Win (abc.net.au)

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jaa101

on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:02AM

jaa101 writes: "Medium-sized Australian ISP iiNet has won a copyright case against the major movie studios. Local studio Village Roadshow was joined by 33 others, including the US majors, in arguing that iiNet was not doing enough to stop its users pirating content. iiNet may have been chosen as a target big enough to set an example but small enough to beat. Today's victory was on appeal in the Australian Federal Court, confirming an earlier ruling a year ago that was won with costs."

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