Archive for August 11th, 2009
The Register reports on one of the more alarming attacks on civil liberties in the UK. Two people have been convicted for refusing to hand over encryption keys. This highly controversial UK law went into effect in 2007 October. Of a total of 15 notices served under this law, there were 11 cases of non-compliance, of which [ READ MORE ]
The Daily Mail reports on a Dutch man and his grandson who got a most unpleasant surprise when the travel agency booked him on a flight to Sydney. The only problem was that it was Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, instead of where they really intended to go, which would of course be Sydney, Australia. From [ READ MORE ]