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Submission + - Satire is Dead (jpost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Toronto International Film Festival withdraws Oct. 7 documentary The Road Between Us because filmmakers didn't receive permission from Hamas to use the attack videos.

Submission + - UK orders Apple to give it access to users' encrypted accounts (reuters.com)

Bruce66423 writes: Britain has ordered Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple's data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.
The UK government's "technical capability notice" requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.
Governments routinely ask technology companies for user data to crack criminal cases, but Britain's sweeping demand, issued last month, has no known precedent in major democracies, the Post said.'

Not even a reference to the need to protect children! Amazing.

Comment Return theft, or scamming sellers? (Score 5, Interesting) 107

Ordered a tablet computer and received a bottle of car cleaner, which I duly packed up back in the box and returned. Another time I ordered a graphics card and received a bundle of papers.

No doubt both sellers, if questioned by Amazon, would try to accuse me of "refund theft". How to prove it one way or the other? If Amazon starts siding with sellers in these situations there are going to be a lot of angry customers.

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