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Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197

Posted by samzenpus on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:31PM from the how-was-your-service-today? dept.

Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."

Submission + - Google SSL Blocked by Schools Across the World (blogspot.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 21, 2010 @05:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Over the past several weeks, the rolling out of Google SSL search has been getting attention here at slashdot, but also some not-so-pleasant obstacles have been in the making much to the frustration of school students and teachers alike. All of this is due to the fact that many content filter vendors have decided to block all google ssl traffic.

While this is being worked on by google to appease these vendors, my question to slashdot is this, "Is it the right of a company to restrict SSL traffic so they can snoop your data, or is it the right of an individual to be entitled to encrypted internet facilities? Also, is the search data you create your data, or your company's?" IANAL but this all seems at odds with the Data Protection Act as some local governments here and here possibly use the very same filtering service for their government employees (as well as the one I work for), and it would also seem to go against the spirit of FIPS (though I appreciate Federal standards are separate from schools in the states).

Comment Re:Another meaning ... ? (Score 1) 135

by SimilarityEngine on Tuesday April 04, 2006 @08:11AM (#15056737) Attached to: £52 Million Govt Funding for New UK Supercomputer

Perhaps I can resolve this: the normal definition of "person" does not allow you to consider two persons to be equivalent to one in general. However, the definition of "computer" - a device that computes - allows this, because "device" is suitably vague with respect to spatial boundaries, physical form etc.

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