InternetFrench reporters booted from US computer security conference (AFP)

AFP - Reporters from an online French magazine were booted from the world's premier computer security conference Thursday after reportedly hacking a press room network and stealing peers' passwords.

LAS VEGAS (AFP) - Reporters from an online French magazine were booted from the world's premier computer security conference Thursday after reportedly hacking a press room network and stealing peers' passwords. An accused trio from Global Security Magazine said they intended to teach reporters about how easily Internet transmissions could be intercepted while covering the Olympics in China, according to Black Hat conference organizers. "It's not good manners to go in and try to crack into the press network here because it is so valuable to having the conference covered well," said Electronic Frontier Foundation senior attorney Kurt Opsahl. "The press room is designed to be a safe harbor in a fairly stormy sea." The magazine reporters plugged into a wired network in a Black Hat press room and evidently "sniffed" out log-in information used by peers. The reporters, identified by Black Hat as Mauro Israel, Marc Brami and Dominique Jouniot, took their finds to computer specialists... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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NewsFactor - When the executives of social-networking Web site Facebook sued a German-based business that had launched a copycat site, it was accepted as a good move -- but was Facebook just sour over an offer gone bad?

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China is employing an unprecedented level of state-of-the-art digital technology to suppress media freedom. For the sake of humanity, let's hope Beijing's Orwellian IT experiment fails.