9th March 2003 Archive

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• Arrest at UK's spook station after NSA UN bugging claim

  More expected, says paper

  An employee at the UK's top secret listening post, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) has been arrested following the Observer newspaper's publication of what it claimed was a leaked 'dirty tricks' email from the US NSA last Sunday. Today's paper reports the arrest by Gloucestershire police of a 28 year old woman, and …

  Music and Media 9 Mar 2003, 14:05

• MS shuts down site over XP P2P leak, but keeps on leaking

  Must make perfect sense to somebody...

  Microsoft's temporary closure of Neowin Neowin over a Windows XP Peer to Peer SDK leak has taken on an Alice in Wonderland quality. First, the hole the Microsoft take-down notice was intended to plug is still, as far as we can see, open, and second, one Andrew G Tereschenko has been emailing the world's press claiming …

  Software 9 Mar 2003, 16:45

• The Swiss connection shines phone spotlight on US tourists

  Unforeseen dangers of Swiss pre-paid phone deals...

  Today's mobile phone terror scare story has the virtue of being real, but unfortunately only sort of. An Associated Press item (free registration required) cites Swiss newspaper reports that 'anonymous' mobile phone cards have been linked by Swiss investigators to Al Qaeda. A good trick, if the card is really anonymous, but you …

  Mobile 9 Mar 2003, 19:12