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Cellular repeaters: Can you hear me now?Open in New Window
Bill Ray writes, "Operating or installing an unlicensed radio transmitter can get you a year in chokey, or six months if you're lucky enough to be in Scotland, and El Reg would never condone such a read more »
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Download al Qaeda manuals from the DoJ, go to prison?Open in New Window
"If you download "the al Qaeda manual," never share it, even if you're a scholar-in-training studying terrorism. Especially if you and the recipient..." read more »
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U.S. 'botmaster' faces up to 60 years prison.Open in New Window
John Kenneth Schiefer, a security consultant for 3G Communications who ran a 250,000 computer botnet on the side is due for a prison sentence of up to sixty years and restitution of up to $1.75 milli read more »
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Egyptian Blogger Marks One Year in PrisonOpen in New Window
Abdul Kareem Nabeel Suleiman is an Egyptian blogger who wrote certain articles criticizing the Egyptian government, the university he attended, and the Islamic religion. For this he was sentenced to read more »
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Two Men Get Five Years For Sending Pornographic Spam.Open in New Window
Two men who sent pornographic spam for several years have received a harsh prison sentence from the justice system - five years in prison along with the confiscation of the more than one million doll read more »
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Slyck News - EliteTorrents InterviewOpen in New Window
Scott McCausland of EliteTorrents talks about the Justice Department's taking down of EliteTorrents, his court battle, imprisonment, and future. read more »
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