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IT Worker Jailed for Ruining Former Employers Network
I daresay that many of you reading this have probably had a bad experience with a former employer. I would also presume that while you may have had a few choice words as you walked (or were escorted) out the door, your actions did not go as far as anything…
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Porn Pirating Lawyer Jailed For Blackmailing Downloaders
With the UK recently looking to implement new online pornography laws (more on that via the link here) most peoples proposed bypass to the problem seemed to be hitting the torrenting websites. Now, as you might expect, care needs to be taken in such areas of the internet. There is,…
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Hacker Sentenced To Over Two Years in Jail for DDoS Attacks
Hacker Given 27 Months In Prison Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on the prison system, but I imagine that as you enter your cell and your big burly cellmate asks you gruffly ‘what are you in for?’ responding with ‘hacking servers’ isn’t going to win you much…
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Game ‘Boosting’ in South Korea Could Carry A Jail Sentence
New Gaming Laws Introduced in South Korea While we have perhaps not gotten to the stage yet of applying any actual laws to gaming in the West, it is something that parts of Asia take very seriously. For example, last year a gamer was sent to prison in South Korea…
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Disgraced YouTuber Austin Jones Sentenced To 10 Years In Jail
Austin Jones Sentenced to 10 Years For many, making it as a YouTube personality is one of the biggest dreams you could hope for. I’m sure that for those few who do make it big enough to make a living from it, it’s (mostly) pretty awesome. In the case of…
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Man Guilty Of Swatting Death Sentenced To 20 Years
Swatting Death Man Given 20-Year Sentence Over the last few years, a rather pervasive trend hit the internet. More prevalent in the US, if there was someone online who disgrunted you and you knew their address, it wasn’t uncommon to pull a ‘prank’ known as ‘swatting’. This would essentially revolve…
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UK Prisoner Scheme Is Set To Teach Them Coding
Prisons To Start Teaching Coding There is little doubt that talented coders can make a very good living in either the gaming or software market. With prisons always looking to find ways to get their inmates into vocational training, however, it seems that this might present an interesting opportunity. In…
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Bizarre Prison Simulator Game Appears On Steam
Bizarre Prison Simulator Game Appears On Steam Since the growth of VR ownership last year (in no small part due to some pretty decent discount events) we have seen a massive increase in the games being created for the technology. As you would expect, some are good, some are ok…
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UK Man Jailed For Selling Illegal Sky TV Streaming Devices
UK Man Jailed For Selling Illegal Sky TV Streaming Devices If you really enjoy your TV programs, then, unfortunately, these days you are almost required to have a subscription TV service of some type. Be it Now TV, Netflix, or Sky, if you want to watch all the popular programs,…
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Man Charged With Sending Death Threats To FCC Chief
Man Charged With Issuing Death Threats To FCC Chief This time last year, it’s unlikely that many of you would know who Ajit Pai was. When it was announced, however, that Net Neutrality in the US was coming under threat, many people quickly came to know the name of its…
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UK Drone Regulations Set Weight, Height and Location Rules
UK Implement New Drone Regulations It’s been coming for a long time, but with drones getting larger and more sophisticated, the UK government has been looking to implement regulations. This is in no small part due to the size of the drones and the idiots who wish to fly them near airports…
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UK Drone Owners May Face Tests And Flight Restrictions
UK Drone Owners May Face Tests and Tighter Restrictions In New Government Proposals Over the last 5 years, with drone technology getting better (and in some instances cheaper) ownership has soared. The ability to have your own flying craft is something many of us have always dreamed of. Particularly one…
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Hacker Jailed For 7 Years For Breaking Into Prison Security
Hacker Jailed for 7 Years for Trying to Reduce A Friends Sentence We all know that hackers accept certain risks when they decide to engage in illegal activity online. While most ‘hacking’ is the someone mundane types of DDOS attacking, some decide that they might try something a little more…
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Man Sentenced To 15 Months For Selling Windows Restore CD’s
15 Months For Re-Selling Old Windows Recovery Disks If you are anything like me, you probably have at least 3 or 4 Windows Recovery or installation disks around. When you own several PC‘s you do tend to accumulate them. At present, I have around 3 XP’s, a Vista and a…
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Botched YouTube Stunt Gets Woman Jailed For Manslaughter
YouTube Stunt Goes Wrong Resulting in Death and Prison sentence Last summer you may have heard of a YouTube stunt that went very wrong indeed. You probably heard of several actually including an idiot who stuck a microwave to his head. That being said, a young couple in search of…
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