Error406 – This is just not acceptable!

Another day, another lost data scare for the government; this time a memory stick containing sensitive intelligence on 33,000 serious offenders. The device also held secret information on around 10,000 priority criminals and the names and dates of birth of 84,000 prisoners.

The loss of the information, has, among other things, put police informants at risk of disclosure. The incident is the latest in a seemingly long line of errors involving to the loss of confidential files.

If you were to find such a device, or stumble upon secret documents forgotten on a train, what would you do with them? Would you alert the authorities, or use them for evil? And ideally, what kind of information would you like to stumble upon – military secrets, UFO sightings, political conspiracies?

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A hacker has been jailed for two years in Spain for revealing hundreds of private emails written by a former colleague. The emails, which were taken from the former manager’s work computer, divulged details of his sex life.

The hacker sent them to the manager’s ex-wife, to a woman with whom he was having a relationship, and to the mayor of a council where he was working.

The emails were also copied on to other people who knew the victim.

A judge in Barcelona yesterday jailed the hacker, who was not named, for two years for an offence of “revealing secrets”. He was also order to pay a fine of €3,240 (£2,566) as well as €4,000 in compensation to the victim.

The judge ruled Spanish law allowed the courts to pursue anyone who “gets access to information of a personal or family nature held on information systems or computers which are public or private”.

He said Spain’s supreme court ruled the right to privacy “means the existence of a reserved area away from others which is necessary to maintain a minimum quality of human life”.

In this case, only 2% of the emails contained information “of a highly personal nature”. The judge said the way in which the victim’s right to privacy had been violated was the most important factor, rather than the content of the emails.

The manager left the Barcelona company in 2006 and believed he had erased all his personal emails.

His former colleague’s motive for hacking into his computer was not made clear in court. Nor did the court establish how the hacker managed to access the emails after the former manager believed they had been erased.

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Wrapit, the stricken internet wedding list company, called in administrators yesterday, leaving 2,000 newlywed couples bereft of gifts and their guests facing a combined loss estimated at £700,000.

The Wandsworth-based company was set up in 2000 to allow wedding guests to buy presents for couples from an online list, but ran into trouble and has failed to honour orders worth £3.5m.

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Copies of the popular Grand Theft Auto 4 game are being taken off the shelves after an 18 year old teenager kills a cab driver.

The student is being accused of stabbing the cab driver to death trying to recreate a scene from the video game.

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The site has been up for less than 3 days now and I’ve been spending most of my time installing add-ons to enable such features as the post ratings, the contact form and youtube video display (on the wii homebrew post). Now all I have to do is write the content and hopefully increase the number of visitors/comments.

Do you have any ideas for discussions?

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