A future Dutch privacy rights evangelist is lost

Resu Repus — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:20:05 +0000

At age 24, Aaron Boudewijn recently rose to national attention in the Netherlands when he took on the personal battle against the government to have his fingerprints excluded from the national fingerprint database & to preserve his right to travel without being required to have his fingerprints stored on his passport. Aaron was clearly a shooting star among his peers, and who’s life was clearly too short.

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Hacker disables more than 100 cars remotely

Resu Repus — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:28:16 +0000

If Ramos-Lopez used the account details previously provided by a colleague, as so often in the case in many work-forces, I’m not sure that exactly makes Ramos a real hacker, but the lesson of why not to share your work creds with colleagues should not be overlooked here… it’s an age old lesson our species doesn’t seem very keen to pick up on the first few times.
“Ramos-Lopez’s account had been closed when he was terminated from Texas Auto Center in a workforce reduction last month, but he allegedly got in through another employee’s account”

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A future Dutch privacy rights evangelist is lost

Hacker disables more than 100 cars remotely