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Submission + - Porn "Random Breath Tests" for PCs (news.com.au)

Submitted by Gwaihir the Windlord on Monday November 03, 2008 @05:52PM

Gwaihir the Windlord writes: A university in Western Australia has started beta testing a tool that's described as "a random breath test" to scan computers for illicit images. According to this article it's a clean bootable linux environment. Since it doesn't write to the hard drive, the evidence is acceptable in court, at least in Australia anyway. They're also working on versions to search for financial documents in fraud squad cases, or to search for terrorist keywords.
Other than skimming off the dumb ones, does anyone really expect this to make a difference?

Submission + - China to photograph all internet cafe customers (news.com.au)

Submitted by Gwaihir the Windlord on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:21AM

Gwaihir the Windlord writes: Not only is the Great Firewall of China back up and running, but now if you visit an internet cafe, your photo will be taken and your identity card scanned. And the friendly officers of the Cultural Law Enforcement Taskforce make those details available at any other cafe. So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in.

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