30th March 2008 Archive

Browse by publication date, or search the site.

• ↑ March 2008
• ← 29th March 2008
• 31st March 2008 →

• Get your German interior minister's fingerprint here

  Hacktivists collect fingerprint of fingerprint collector

  A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's interior minister and a staunch supporter of the collection of citizens' unique physical characteristics as a means of preventing terrorism. In the most recent issue of Die Datenschleuder, the Chaos Computer Club printed the image on a …

  Policing 30 Mar 03:23

• Snort coke, shaft the environment, say boffins

  Cocaine: Now with even more added guilt

  Snorting cocaine is an environmental crime whatever your views on drug use, scientists declared last week. A panel of scientists meeting at the Natural History Museum in London last week detailed how the production of the drug and its trafficking affect biodiversity and contribute to climate change. The production of a gram …

  Biology 30 Mar 08:02

• Heathrow fingered over prints as Apple bungles EULA

  Comments And don't use a gun for home improvement

  Apple cocked up the licence agreement for its Safari browser by forbidding installation on Windows PCs. The EULA only allowed users to install the browser on "a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." Apple quickly changed the licence agreement to say that you can install it on "each computer owned or controlled by you." But …

  Letters 30 Mar 11:02