It was revealed last week that Facebook had a security lapse that allowed a circumvention of the site’s privacy controls. The lapse was discovered by a user ‘testing’ the security levels. Facebook claim they had the problem fixed within the hour. But it highlights once again that users shouldn’t be putting images up on the […]
This is taking the “Kiwi ingenuity and #8 wire” mentality to a totally new level. Absolutely impressive!
Self taught eighteen year old superhacker, Owen Walker, needs to be given a job, not a jail sentence. If he receives a community based sentence hopefully they’ll put his immense computer knowledge to work rather than have him removing graffiti or sweeping leaves. Walker created his own bot code, which police say is “considered by […]
National introduced a riveting new initiative yesterday – a compensation scheme for victims. The way it works is that every criminal pays $50 to the victim of his or her crime. National claims this will generate $5 million of revenue. All I can see is that each victim will get $50, less the cost of […]
John Miller, a podiatrist in Tauranga, has raised the spectre of young people with malformed feet – due to running barefoot. Surely this is a blatant promotional effort on his behalf. Kiwi kids have always run and played barefoot. Is there any data to suggest that we have worse feet than our counterparts in areas […]
Interesting how Millie Elder, convicted of drug offences, gets a sentence of 12 months supervision and Stuff places the story in the Entertainment section.